'Something is really broken': Why GM auto workers are striking

As members of the United Auto Workers union head into day three of a nationwide strike demanding fair pay and better working conditions, General Motors announced it would cut off healthcare for nearly 50,000 people on the picket lines. Steven Greenhouse, veteran labor reporter formerly with the New York Times, says that this is just the latest in a war on labor that has been ongoing for decades — oftentimes with Republicans adding fuel to the fire. "We have seen Republicans — Scott Walker most notably — trying extremely hard to weaken unions, especially public-sector unions. So we're at a point where worker power in the United States, I argue, is the weakest it has been in many, many decades," Greenhouse says. "So there is a sense now that something is really broken."

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