(The Center Square) — In its third week on strike, United Auto Worker Union President Shawn Fain called on an additional 7,000 members in Michigan and Illinois to strike at noon Eastern time Friday.

Fain called on Lansing Delta Township Assembly and Ford’s Chicago Assembly plant in Illinois to walk out, pushing the total to about 25,000 workers on picket lines.

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