In the US, the United Auto Workers strike has been going on for three weeks, and it looks like the labor union is prepared for a long fight.

For the first time, the UAW is striking against all of the Big Three — General Motors, Ford and Stellantis — at the same time.

Anderson Economic Group, a Michigan-based research company, estimates the first two weeks of the movement alone have cost the US economy almost $4 billion.

What has made these auto workers put down their tools? Is the strike a reflection of a bigger social movement in the country?

Host Ding Heng is joined by Paul Fabrizio, Professor of Political Science with McMurry University; Derek Catsam, Professor of History at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin; Aubrey Jewett, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida.