Last Friday, in a “targeted strike,” 13,000 members of the 150,000-member United Auto Workers union shut down several major auto plants, partially impacting each of Detroit’s “Big Three” automakers — General Motors, Ford Motors, and Stellantis (Chrysler, Jeep, and Ram).

While this is the first time in UAW history all three automakers were hit simultaneously, they also each remain in operation. Their demands: a four-day work week, overtime for anything beyond 32 hours a week, paid work following any potential plant shutdowns (which is to say pay forever, no matter what?), a “significant” increase in retiree pay, and every temporary worker made permanent (and also made a member of the union, we presume). Notions of the four-day work week have particularly captured America’s imagination, and have been favorably ‘contextualized’ in every mainstream press outlet I’ve found. This idea you’ve never heard of but from the most coddled tech employees in human history? It’s not radical or crazy at all, insists NPR, a news outlet I am for some reason forced by law to pay for. No, the four-day workweek is “steeped in UAW history,” and a “continuation of a very long term struggle.” You are the one, actually, who is radical and crazy for thinking a two-day weekend is not, in the words of the UAW president, a “human rights issue.”

Amazing.