On Facebook Live Friday afternoon, United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain symbolically awarded roses to automakers General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford based on progress at the negotiating table, a reference to the reality show The Bachelor. The only thing missing was teary-eyed CEOs breathing a sigh of relief as the UAW agreed not to widen its strike to more factories for now.

The UAW was poised to tap five thousand members at GM’s assembly plant in Arlington, Texas, as part of its latest “stand-up strike” escalation. These workers would have joined twenty-five thousand already on strike at five assembly plants and thirty-eight parts distribution centers nationwide.

But in the eleventh hour, GM agreed to put battery manufacturing facilities for electric vehicles (EVs) into its national union contract.