Unions

Mayor Lori Lightfoot told the City Council that no money is available beyond the billions already committed for Chicago Public Schools.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said last week that the strike should not be taking place because she has already given in to many of the union's concessions.

Jeffery Pietrzyk, 74, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering on Tuesday.

The UAW uses pattern bargaining with the three companies, meaning they take the core economics of the first deal struck with a company and take it to the other two.

General Dynamics, based in Falls Church, Virginia, is the country's fifth biggest defense contractor.

Autoworkers are continuing the strike as rank-and-file members vote on ratifying the tentative agreement, a move that was unusual but seemed slightly more likely as the strike dragged on.

The Chicago teachers union is on its second day of striking after contract negotiations with city officials broke down on Friday.

Some of the most anticipated parts of the deal include a new shortened path to permanent status for temporary workers and guaranted wage increases and lump sums for permanent manufacturing employees.

The tentative agreement is expected to appease autoworkers who were concerned by GM's plan to idle the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant in Michigan by placing production of an electric truck there.

Though classes are canceled, buildings will remain open and meals will be served.

Working parents will be scrambling to find childcare — and pay for it.

"I'm sure the team members at General Motors are anxious to get back to work and earn a paycheck," Jim Lentz, Toyota Motor North America CEO, said.

The strike is not technically over, but this is a positive sign.

If the UAW cannot make progress on Thursday, there is one action it could take that would further leverage GM.