The UAW touts "record" deals from the Detroit Three automakers, but ratification of the new contracts was no slam dunk.

I’m all for auto workers getting paid, but the UAW’s demands this time around seem a bit much. I can’t see how the OEMs will be able to meet them, and I worry about the implications for the economy. The 2019 strike lasted more than a month, and a prolonged strike now could jeopardize the economic recovery.

RACINE, WI—After more than 260 days on strike, roughly 1,100 CNH Industrial workers in Wisconsin and Iowa are going back to work after a new contract was voted on and signed Jan. 21.

RACINE, WI—UAW members who have been on strike since May at CNH Industrial factories in Wisconsin and Iowa voted down a tentative labor contract on Jan. 7, the United Auto Workers union said.

WARREN, OH—Workers will vote this week whether to unionize at Ultium Cells’ battery assembly plant here.

WASHINGTON—The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that employers cannot prevent workers from wearing union apparel or insignias on the job, absent special circumstances that justify such a restriction.

KOKOMO, IN—Workers at the Stellantis casting plant here ratified a new local contract on Sept. 12 after an almost three-day strike

DETROIT—A strike that could have halted production of some of General Motors’ most profitable and important vehicles has been narrowly averted.

RACINE, WI—Unionized workers of tractor manufacturer CNH Industrial are striking after contract negotiations between the company and the union, United Auto Workers, broke down.

MOLINE, IL—Union workers at Deere & Co. would get wage increases of 10 percent in the first year and 5 percent each in the third and fifth years under a tentative contract reached between the farm-equipment maker and the United Auto Workers union.