There are about 150,000 United Auto Workers, and 17% of them are on strike. Friday, a significant chunk from North Texas were nearly called upon.

ARLINGTON, Texas - The United Auto Workers strike is showing no signs of slowing down and is now expanding in North Texas.

About 5,000 workers at the General Motors Assembly Plant in Arlington were ordered to walk off the job at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning.

The plant makes the company's "most profitable vehicles", including the Chevy Tahoe, Chevy Suburban, GMC Yukon, and Cadillac Escalade.

The move came just a few hours after GM reported its most recent third-quarter earnings and one day after the UAW hit its largest plant, Sterling Heights Assembly, in Michigan.

"Another record quarter, another record year. As we've said for months: record profits equal record contracts." said UAW President Shawn Fain in a press release. "It’s time GM workers, and the whole working class, get their fair share."

Stellantis said it is "outraged" by the UAW's decision to strike its largest plant, Sterling Heights Assembly. On Monday morning, 6,800 union members walked out of the plant, accompanied by UAW President Shawn Fain.

On Monday morning, 6,800 union members walked out of the Sterling Heights assembly plant, accompanied by Fain.

This strike expansion come after Fain said in an update Friday that negotiation progress had been made with Stellantis and GM.

Arlington's workers bring the total number of striking workers to 45,000 across all of Detroit's Big Three.