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The autoworkers strike could once again be expanding. The United Auto Workers union has announced that the Big Three automakers have until Friday at 10 a.m. to make significant progress in contract negotiations or the picket lines will get bigger.

The UAW strike started on Sept. 14 with just three plants in the Midwest, including the Stellantis Jeep facility in Toledo. On Sept. 14, 38 parts and distribution centers across 20 states joined in.

UAW Local 573 was one of the chapters to join in last Friday, representing workers for Stellantis' Chrystler Parts and Distribution Center in Streetsboro.

"If the corporations aren't moving, then I expect there to be expansion," said Mike Kalman, President of UAW Local 573. "If not a few, maybe even all of them. Who knows?"

He and his roughly 100 members stress that they deserve the 40% wage increase they've been demanding.

"It's well overdue," he stressed. "We just want our fair share. We don't want CEO pay. We understand they're going to make the big bucks, but when we make concessions in 2009 and 2011 and all my members are living check to check, it's not good. We just want our fair share."

Streetsboro Mayor Glenn Broska told 3News their city can bear the impact of the strike. It's the autoworkers he's sympathetic for.

"I believe that the economic impact is more on them, only getting $500 a week for their strike pay," he said. "I don't like to see anybody on strike. I would rather it be able to be resolved in a fair and equitable manner."

Kaitor Kay reports: https://www.wkyc.com/article/money/ca...