Auto workers’ demands: 46% raise, 32-hour workweek
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On this Labor Day, a possible new labor strike, and this one could be big, the lead starts |
| 0:08.5 | right now. Hollywood writers and actors, now auto workers, could be next to walk off |
| 0:15.3 | the job and onto the picket line, demanding more than just higher pay. Their union leader |
| 0:20.3 | is here after this bold statement online. |
| 0:25.2 | Billionaires, in my opinion, don't have a right to exist. |
| 0:28.9 | Blossom shift in the 2024 race as America comes off summer vacation and the candidate zero |
| 0:34.1 | in on the first contest on the calendar. And I'm plugging kids constantly connected. See |
| 0:40.3 | China's new controversial minor mode? Could it work in your household? |
| 0:49.9 | Welcome to the special edition of the lead. I'm Bionicle with Riga in for Jake Tapper. |
| 0:53.7 | We're starting with our money lead and Labor Day worries about big labor and big trouble. |
| 0:58.4 | We're just 10 days away from more than 140,000 union workers possibly going on strike against |
| 1:04.2 | the big three automakers, four general motors and Stellantis, the international company that |
| 1:09.4 | now owns Jeep, Ram and Chrysler. Their contracts expire September 14th. And in a holiday weekend |
| 1:16.1 | video posted on X, formerly Twitter, UAW President Sean Fein lays down an ultimatum. |
| 1:23.7 | We're parents, we're siblings, we're active members of our communities, and we demand respect, |
| 1:31.5 | and we demand to be valued. |
| 1:35.0 | President Biden gave a speech to other union workers in Philadelphia today, |
| 1:39.0 | and the administration's acting Labor Secretary tried to sound upbeat this morning here on CNN. |
| 1:46.2 | It always looks like parties are far apart until they're not. So at this point, |
| 1:49.6 | the UAW is at the table with the big three, and we respect their process. |
| 1:55.0 | They're hopeful that they are going to grapple through some hard issues, |
| 1:58.2 | and hopefully come to an agreement that's a win-win. |
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