General Motors and Ford Motor Co. said the UAW strike that began Friday morning will affect more of its operations.
GM said it expects to idle its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas early next week because of a shortage of stampings made at the Wentzville Assembly plant in Missouri, which went on strike Friday.
And Ford said about 600 workers at its Michigan Assembly plant near Detroit — parts of which went on strike Friday — were told not to come to work Friday because of the impact of the work stoppage. They include employees in the body construction department and south sub-assembly area of the integrated stamping operation, Ford said.