Good morning. Welcome to Exios today. It's Tuesday, June 27. I'm Naila Boudou. Today,

pedestrian deaths at a 40-year high in the U.S., plus how the Titan disaster could affect

private space travel. But first, a summer of strikes. That's today's one big thing.

Workers across the country are headed to the picket line this summer, from Starbucks to Amazon.

In fact, more than 10,000 workers have gone on strike just so far this month.

Excuses Emily Pack is here with more. Emily, we've talked about how strikes have been on the

rise since the pandemic, but things have really kicked into gear this month. Even this week,

can you tell us how? Yeah, so by the end of last week, Starbucks union said about 3,000

workers were going out on strike, protesting the companies, gay pride decor, and unfair labor

practices. Then two large strikes in the manufacturing industry got underway last week.

One, workers at a locomotive plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. Another one involving 6,000 workers

at a Boeing supplier in Wichita, Kansas. There are like smaller actions popping up last week. You

mentioned Amazon. It's about 84 Amazon drivers at a warehouse in California. They're represented

by the teamsters. They want Amazon to negotiate with them and recognize them. And then also in June,

there have been all these media strikes. There were hundreds of workers at Gennett. There were

250 journalists in the insider's newsroom. And of course, the ongoing writer strike is continuing.

It's still happening. And there's a pretty big potential strike you're keeping an eye on for

Donald in the summer. There are two potential strikes sort of on the horizon. There's UPS

negotiating a contract with its 340,000 workers. And they have the biggest collective bargaining

agreement in the United States. If they were to go on strike, that would totally change the game.

I mean, their contract expires at the end of July. And those workers have already

voted to authorize a strike if they don't come to terms by the end of the month. That doesn't

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