Temperatures dropped to 52 degrees after 3:30 a.m. and all the TV camera crews were gone.
Striking UAW members remained.
Factory workers carried their picket signs at gates outside Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, hugging each other and laughing and chanting and even dancing on Michigan Avenue as thousands of UAW workers from three Ford, GM and Stellantis auto plants in Michigan, Ohio and Missouri started a historic strike against the Detroit Three.
Factory workers at Michigan Assembly endured six-hour strike shifts that began at 12 a.m. Friday with plans to continue non-stop every day until workers reach a deal with Ford Motor Co. Their four-year labor contract expired at 11:59 p.m. Thursday. And while members on the picket line talked of deserving better wages and benefits, few criticized the company or its executives directly.
Horns honked with every car and truck that passed, it seemed all night. People streamed in and out…