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The United Auto Workers (UAW) chief calls on 7,000 more workers to join a historic strike against the top three US car manufacturers at noon on Friday. UAW President Shawn Fain calls on the workers at Ford and General Motors (GM) plants in Chigaco and Michigan to join the first ever strike at the "Big Three" Detroit automakers -- Ford, GM and Stellantis -- as the union pushes for improved conditions across the board. "What we win at the bargaining table depends on the power we build on the job. It's time to use that power," Fain says. SOUNDBITE
Heads of States arrive at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa for the second and last day of the organisation's 36th summit. More than 30 presidents and prime ministers are in attendance, as they discuss a slew of challenges facing the continent. Images show South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Senegalese President Macky sall, the Chair of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki, and former Nigerian President and current High Representative for the Horn of Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo. IMAGES
"We just started a movement," says Starbucks employee Casey Moore after workers at a Starbucks shop in Buffalo, New York, voted to establish the first union at one of the coffee chain's company-owned shops in the United States. "This is the most incredible feeling in the whole entire world, to go through what we've done and then be victorious," Moore says. SOUNDBITE
Members of President Nicolas Maduro's United Socialist Party of Venezuela gather in Caracas with flags and banners for a march to mark Indigenous Resistance Day. IMAGES
Santa Monica, Sep 6 (EFE/EPA).- Thousands of people visited Monday the Santa Monica pier and the nearby beaches during the United States' Labor Day weekend amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Camera: ETIENNE LAURENT). B-ROLL OF PEOPLE VISITING SANTA MONICA IN CALIFORNIA, US.