Commentary
On Friday, the United Auto Workers said over 97 percent of their 150,000 members who work for Detroit Three automakers gave union leaders their approval to call a strike if they cannot reach a tentative contract by a Sept. 14 deadline.
Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and supporters picket outside of General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly in Detroit, Mich., in a file photo. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
