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The announcement came hours after Fain invited Biden to join the picket line.

\"We invite and encourage everyone who supports our cause to join us on the picket line. From our friends and families all the way up to the president of the United States, we invite you to join us in our fight,\" Fain said. \"The way you can help is to build our movement and show the companies that the public stands with us, and stands with our elected national negotiators.

The UAW, which represents nearly 150,000 American autoworkers, launched a strike against GM, Ford and Stellantis on Sept. 15. Almost 13,000 workers walked out of three auto plants in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio that day. The union is utilizing a \"stand-up\" strike method to target specific plants and add to the list if a deal isn't reached.

The UAW held talks with Ford on Sept. 16, GM on Sept. 17 and Stellantis on Sept. 18, a union source told ABC News. The conversations with Ford were \"reasonably productive,\" the source said.

\"Ford is working diligently with the UAW to reach a deal that rewards our workforce and enables Ford to invest in a vibrant and growing future,\" Ford said in a statement Friday. \"Although we are making progress in some areas, we still have significant gaps to close on the key economic issues. In the end, the issues are interconnected and must work within an overall agreement that supports our mutual success.\"

Stellantis said on Friday that it made a \"very competitive offer\" to the union on Thursday but \"we still have not received a response.\" The offer included current full-time hourly employees earning between $80,000 and $96,000 annually by the end of the contract, the company said.

\"[We] question whether the union's leadership has ever had an interest in reaching an agreement in a timely manner,\" Stellantis said in a statement. \"They seem more concerned about pursuing their own political agendas than negotiating in the best interests of our employees and the sustainability of our U.S. operations given the market's fierce competition.\"

Sticking points in negotiations were wage increases and the length of the workweek. The union is demanding a 46% pay increase combined over the four-year duration of a new contract, as well as a 32-hour workweek at 40-hour pay. So far, all three of the Detroit-based companies have each put forward proposals that offered workers a 20% pay increase over the life of the agreement but preserved a 40-hour workweek.

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PHOTO: Phaedra Grant, who has worked 34 years for Ford, holds a sign during a United Auto Workers rally to support striking workers outside an assembly plant in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sept. 21, 2023.
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After the unprecedented strike began, Ford laid off 600 workers who assemble cars at a plant in Michigan on Sept. 15. Workers in the paint department at a nearby plant are out on strike, leaving the assembly workers without adequate parts since the parts require paint before they can be put together into cars, a company spokesperson told ABC News.

Biden has deployed acting Labor Secretary Julie Su and White House senior adviser Gene Sperling to Detroit to offer their support for the parties in reaching an agreement.

Economists previously told ABC News that a strike could result in billions of dollars in losses, disruption to the supply chain and other financial consequences.

ABC News' Fritz Farrow, Jolie Lash and Max Zahn contributed to this report.

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