A new day for labor organizing in the South?
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
A union election at Volkswagen is testing the power of the United Auto Workers. As voting gets underway this week, guest host Nova Safo explains what unionization could mean for three big automakers and the labor movement in the South. Plus, how a unanimous Supreme Court ruling expands the scope of workplace bias suits. And, why Billy Joel came up at a Pentagon press briefing.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “The South has few unionized auto plants. Workers say this one could be next.” from The Washington Post
- “Supreme Court makes it easier to sue for job discrimination over forced transfers” from The Associated Press
- “Hugh Grant says he took ‘enormous sum’ to settle suit alleging illegal snooping by The Sun tabloid” from The Associated Press
- “Conservative Broadcaster OAN Settles Defamation Claims by Voting-Machine Company Smartmatic” from The Wall Street Journal
- Pentagon press conference moment from Travis Akers on X
- Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (Official HD Video)
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| 0:37.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm Novasafo filling in for Kyri's doll. |
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| 0:58.0 | Nova, what caught your attention today? |
| 1:01.0 | Today is the first day of three days of voting in Chattanooga, Tennessee at the Volkswagen Auto Plant. |
| 1:11.0 | I love saying Chattanooga, I really do. I remember actually, I used to have to cover the Detroit |
| 1:16.7 | Auto Show on an annual basis. I remember the first year, I think it was the first year I was there and |
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