‘We build those cars’: US workers on Ford picket line demand a fair share

Horns blare in support of strikers outside the carmakers' plant in Wayne, Michigan, as union members attack corporate greed'

Under blue skies in Wayne, Michigan, a half-hour outside Detroit, the mood was festive but defiant as hundreds of autoworkers settled in for the first weekend of picketing at the entrances to Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant.

Ford's workers were among the first to go out in a series of targeted strikes that marked the beginning of the largest industrial action taken by US car workers in over a decade.