The strike has cost more than $1 billion in output for Big 3 automakers alone.
carried out by tens of thousands of autoworkers has cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars, denying workers their wages and cutting output at car companies, according to a study from a Michigan-based research firm that was reviewed by ABC News.
After the strike began, Ford laid off 600 workers who assembled cars at a plant in Michigan on the same day. Workers in the paint department at a nearby plant are out on strike, leaving the assembly workers without adequate parts since the parts require paint before they can be put together into cars, a company spokesperson told ABC News.
The union has carried out what it has called a "stand-up" strike, announcing a new set of strike targets shortly before thousands of additional workers are set to walk off the job. The report's findings do not include plant closures, additional strike targets, or layoffs that took effect after Sept. 29, including an additional 7,000 workers whoStill, the number of workers on strike makes up a fraction of the 143,000 union members who work at the Big 3.
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