Workers with picket signs mark every entrance to the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan. With them is all the paraphernalia of a long stay – tables piled with snacks and water bottles, wood and steel bins to make fires during the night, and dozens of signs bearing the slogan “UAW on strike”.
It’s the same picture at the Hamtramck plant just an hour’s drive away, and there are similar scenes at GM facilities across the US.
Nearly 49,000 workers walked out on strike on 16 September.
“We’re prepared to be out here as long as takes,” says Bill Brewer, a quality control inspector at the Flint plant.
Mr Brewer has worked at GM for 42 years. This is his third strike. It’s the longest one he’s been on.
Each day the strike costs General Motors an estimated $90m (£72.3m).
