By Doug Cunningham

The UAW is on strike against American Axle and Manufacturing in Michigan and New York. Thirty-six hundred workers hit the picket lines on Tuesday. The company is attacking wages and benefits, demanding a $14 an hour pay cut and elimination of future retiree health care. It also wants to wipe out defined benefit pensions for active workers. The UAW says such deep sacrifices can’t be expected from workers without offering something substantial in return.