TOLEDO — Nearly four weeks into the United Auto Workers’ strike against General Motors, employees are starting to feel the pinch of going without their regular paychecks.

They’re scaling back at the grocery store, giving up on eating at restaurants, and some are taking on part-time jobs while trying to get by on weekly strike pay of $250.

“In a couple of more weeks, I think everybody’s going to be calling the bank or their creditors, going, ‘Hey, probably going to be late or delinquent,'” said Mike Armentrout, who works at GM’s transmission plant in Toledo.

While pressure is intensifying to reach a deal, the losses for both sides are mounting and spilling over into the auto-supply chain.

Striking full-time workers are losing roughly $1,000 each week, and that’s not counting the overtime many of them made.

“I’m sure we have some people in a bind, but as far as my members who I talk to on a regular basis, they are in this for the long haul and they’ll hold out as long as they can for anything to come back into that facility — for the simple reason that we don’t have a whole lot to lose,” said Dan Morgan, shop chairman for UAW Local 1112 at GM’s idled assembly plant in Lordstown. “We’ve got faith in the international union that they are going to do the right things and bring product back.”

Members of Local 1112 took to the picket line in the wee hours of Sept. 16, joining about 49,000 other UAW members in the strike against GM.

Many local union members transferred to other GM plants across the U.S. but have returned to picket outside the facility in Lordstown.

“We told people for two to three years that going into ’19 was going to be a rough bargaining round, so we told people to save money … and we’re trying to do as much (as possible). We are feeding people ’round the clock, 24 hours a day. If people need to eat, they come here and eat — we have food out all of the time. We’re delivering food out to the line,” Morgan said.

Dolphin Green, a temporary worker at an engine and transmission plant in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, Mich., took a job washing dishes at a restaurant to help make ends meet.

“I’m willing to sacrifice as long as possible,” he said.

He’s been with GM for only four months, making just under $16 per hour, but has hopes of going full time so he can support a family.

Use of temporary workers has been a major issue in the contract negotiations, along with building vehicles in other countries, a point that surfaced Tuesday.

Green has cut spending and has a girlfriend with a good job. But he’s worried about a child support payment coming up at the end of the month and has talked to his case worker about temporarily reducing the payments.

Dennis Earl, president of UAW Local 14 in Toledo, said the union is doing what it can to help workers by advising them how to deal with bills that are piling up.

The union hall’s kitchen is serving meals ’round the clock, and donations of food and household items are pouring in from other labor groups in the area. “Nobody’s going to go hungry,” he said.

“As this goes on and becomes more difficult, there’s going to be some agitation, but for the most part, these people are in it for the long haul,” he said.

A Wall Street analyst estimates that GM has lost more than $1.6 billion since the work stoppage began, and is now losing about $82 million per day.

GM dealers across the country report still-healthy inventory on their lots, but they’re running short of parts to fix their customers’ vehicles.

The strike immediately shut down about 30 GM factories across the U.S., essentially ending the company’s production. Factories in Canada and Mexico remained open for a while, but one assembly plant in Canada and another in Mexico have been forced to shut down due to parts shortages. Analysts expect the closures to spread to the six plants that remain open.

Bargaining went into the night Wednesday and resumed Thursday morning as the strike entered its 25th day.

A person briefed on the talks said the union hasn’t responded to an improved offer the company made Monday. The person didn’t want to be identified because the talks are confidential. The union pointed to a letter from its top bargainer to members, saying that GM isn’t committed to bringing production to the U.S. from other countries.

The Anderson Economic Group, a consulting firm in East Lansing, Mich., estimates that 75,000 workers at auto-parts supply companies have been laid off or had their wages reduced because of the strike.

That doesn’t include waitresses, convenience store clerks and others who are seeing their hours cut because striking workers aren’t out spending money.

Truck driver Glen Hodge, who hauls scrap metal from a stamping plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., has been off the job the past three weeks.

Since then, he’s filed for unemployment, dropped his cable TV package, stopped going out to eat with his wife and even cut back on dog treats. It upsets him a bit when he sees gift cards and donations pouring in for the striking workers.

“What about the rest of us?” he said Wednesday. “There’s a bunch of us sitting around getting nothing.”