News Wrap: UAW president threatens wider auto worker strike amid wage dispute

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• John Yang:

  Good evening. I'm John Yang. With union and automaker negotiators talking but making little progress, the head of the United Auto Workers union threatened today to widen the strike beyond the three plants that have been idle since Friday. Talks were set to resume today with GM and Monday with Ford and Stellantis, which used to be called Chrysler.

  On CBS' Face the Nation, UAW president Shawn Fain compared the automakers wage offers with the salaries of their CEOs.

• Shawn Fain, UAW President:

  It's in the last four years alone. The CEO pay went up 40 percent. They're already millionaires. You know, it's shameful that, you know, one of the leaders of the — one of the corporations sitting in his second home in Acapulco while we're bargaining rather than being at the bargaining table.

• Woman:

  So 21 percent is a no go for you.

• Shawn Fain:

  It's definitely a no go. And we've made that very clear to the companies.

• John Yang:

  This is the first time the union has gone on strike against all three automakers at once, rather than targeting just one of them.

  South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says the international community must stand together to confront deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea. That's expected to be Yoon's focus later this week when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly.

  Fears of stronger military ties between the two nations deepened with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's six-day visit to Russia, which ended today. Kim met with Vladimir Putin and inspected some of Russia's nuclear force.

  The first two civilian cargo ships to reach Ukraine since the collapse of a deal allowing Ukrainian grain exports arrived in a seaport in the southern Odesa region. They used a temporary corridor to safely cross the Black Sea.

  Ukrainian officials said the ships will deliver 20,000 tons of wheat to Africa and Asia. Ukraine has rerouted grain shipments from the Black Sea to the Danube River and road and rail links.

  And actress Drew Barrymore says she's not bringing her daytime talk show back on the air after all, and that it will stay off the air until the writers and actors strikes are over. Barrymore drew sharp criticism from striking writers and actors last week when she resumed tapings.

  In May, Barrymore had dropped out of hosting an MTV award show because of the writers strike. Other daytime talk shows have returned to the air with new shows, but without their unionized writers. Talk show hosts can continue to work because they're covered by a separate union agreement.

  Still to come on PBS News Weekend, what's at stake for the federal nutrition program that supports women, infants and children, and how climate change affects fall foliage.