nbc's shaquille brewster is in toledo, ohio, and also with us, roben farzad host of public radio's "full disclosure." shaq, remind us what the workers want, and has there been any movement on these negotiations since the strike was announced overnight? >> reporter: good morning. there has not been any movement. that is why the workers are out here. ahead of the deadline, the uaw president said you can't expect this to be resolved quickly. you have the workers out here, they're saying they're in this for the long haul. what are they asking for? the big demand that you know is that wage increase. they came in asking for that 46% increase in wages over four years. there are plenty of other measures, though, things that address their cost of living, more vacation time, more time to spend with their family and more flexibility with the scheduling and then also retirement are key demands for these workers out here. i'll tell you, this is a historic strike in the sense that you have all three big automakers being targeted, at least one assembly plant from each of those automakers have scenes li

so let's talk with roben farzad, host of public radio's full disclosure now.ey will now have strikes in 20 states. tell me again what else we're just learning? more workers will be taking part in this strike, go into those picket lines, specifically auto parts workers. this all coming in this conference as i speak. so your thoughts on the union's strategy here to do this sort of rolling strike of sorts. >> well, ana, let's mix some choice metaphors here. you're trying to turn up the heat on this goose whose eggs you really want, right? you don't want to kill the goose. you just want to make the goose sufficiently uncomfortable in the interim so you get the maximum yield of eggs, that's what i kind of think the strategy is here. they don't want to destroy the big two and a half, big three. they just want to wrest back much of what was taken away from them 15 years ago and then some. inflation is so severe. the supply chain shocks were so hard that they realize they perceive to have leverage right now. >> why not do it all at once, why not have everybody strike.

joining me with more is roben farzad, nice to see you on this friday heading into a holiday weekend.payments and interest unpaused since they graduated. so what is this going to mean for them? >> do you like don henley, peter alexander? >> of course i like don henley, come on now. everybody likes to quote boys of summer around labor day, but after seeing that piece -- ♪ forgiveness, forgiveness even if ♪ >> so many people had hopes, millions and millions of people that may be $10,000 at a time would be wiped off, including the supreme court thwarted that. it is a scary season because you had a generation of people who had remote classrooms, who had to put off college matriculation and signed on to this debt really on the eve of the pandemic and now kind of their vindication is, well, i'm going to get stuck with it again and i never had a normal where i had to write out a check every month. they may have gotten used to a standard of living, a cost of living, maybe car payments and other things that this is going to be a cold winter for them. >> a lot of americans are looking down at t