Nearly 96 percent of UAW workers at the Big Three automakers have voted to authorize a strike, giving the embattled union a bargaining chip in its upcoming contract negations with General Motors. The strike vote happened last week, with 96.4% approval from workers at GM, 95.98% at Ford, and 96% at Fiat Chrysler.
The UAW released the vote results on Tuesday. The routine vote doesn't mean there will necessarily be a strike, however, nor does it mean that there is more of an appetite for a strike than there has been at other times.…