Chrysler Workers Walk

Chrysler's Sterling Heights Assembly Plant workers, from left to right, Sara Anolick, Boris Atovski, and Robert Ashford, put down their signs after the United Auto Workers union reached a tentative four-year contract with Chrysler Wednesday Oct. 10, 2007, hours after going on strike in Sterling Heights, Mich., and the same day General Motors workers ratified a separate four-year pact.

Second shift union steward T.J. James, left, hugs Michael Tremaine, after the announcement that United Auto Workers strike against Chrysler ended at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, in Warren, Mich.

A UAW worker walks out of the Kokomo Casting Plant in Kokomo, Ind., at exactly 11 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007. Thousands of Chrysler autoworkers walked off the job Wednesday after the automaker and the United Auto Workers union failed to reach a tentative contract agreement before a union-imposed deadline.

UAW worker Bill Bradley waves to fellow Chrysler workers as he leaves the Kokomo Casting Plant after he walked off the job Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007 in Kokomo, Ind.

United Auto Worker Scott Smith carries strike sign outside the Chrysler Warren Stamping facility in Warren, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007.

Striking Chrysler workers picket as a truck is seen attempting to make a delivery at Chrysler's Twinsburg Stamping Plant, in Twinsburg, Ohio on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007.

Chrysler worker Dwight Jones talks with a supporter driving by his picket line at Chrysler's Twinsburg Stamping Plant, in Twinsburg, Ohio, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007.

United Auto Workers union Local 122 president Charles Spencer, center, moves his striking Chrysler workers back from Chrysler property at the request of security and local police, at Chrysler's Twinsburg Stamping Plant, in Twinsburg, Ohio on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007.

Chrysler worker Gavin Kunkle, right, leaves his shift and has a strike sign given to him by United Auto Workers Local Sergeant-at-Arms Dan Bennet, left, at Chrysler's Twinsburg Stamping Plant, in Twinsburg, Ohio on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007.

Chrysler auto workers form a picket line outside the engine plant in Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007.

United Auto Workers walk the picket line outside Chrysler headquarters, background, in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007. The UAW workers walked out at 11 a.m. after negotiators failed to reach a tentative agreement with the automaker.

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