Autoworkers, Roll Out!
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The United Auto Workers Union is on strike at all three of Detroit’s major automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis. This is the first time in history it’s done that. Nearly 13,000 workers walked off the job at three auto plants across the country on Friday to fight for better wages and benefits as negotiations for a new labor contract continue.
And in headlines: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted of all the impeachment charges against him, tens of thousands of protesters marched in Manhattan to call on world leaders to end the usage of fossil fuels, and Drew Barrymore reversed the decision to bring back her talk show amid the Hollywood writers’ strike.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, September 18th, I'm Wanted A Toliver. |
| 0:04.3 | And I'm Trayvell Anderson and this is What A Day, the pod that suggests if you're looking |
| 0:08.8 | for a new career, Crisis PR is where it's at. |
| 0:12.9 | Because there's so many famous people lately who've made decisions that got them in hot |
| 0:16.6 | water. |
| 0:17.6 | Drew Barrymore, Ashton Kutcher, the guy who founded Rolling Stone, which I'll zoom in |
| 0:22.1 | out there. |
| 0:23.1 | Pure mess. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen, and everybody needs an Olivia Pope in their life, okay? |
| 0:27.3 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, we'll explain why all those people should have kept their mouths shut. |
| 0:35.6 | Plus. |
| 0:36.6 | Come on, Pete. |
| 0:44.2 | That's thousands of climate protesters yesterday in New York chanting for Biden to end fossil |
| 0:49.4 | fuels more on that coming up. |
| 0:51.8 | You know, I love anything with a dance track in the background. |
| 0:54.4 | First, the United Auto Workers Union is officially on strike. |
| 1:04.0 | That was the sound of UIW workers chanting on the picket lines this weekend after Detroit's |
| 1:08.7 | big three auto makers, General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, fell to meet their demands for |
| 1:14.2 | a new labor contract by last Thursday's strike deadline. |
| 1:18.0 | Nearly 13,000 workers from across the country walked off the job on Friday at three auto |
| 1:22.7 | plants, a General Motors factory in Wentzville, Missouri, a Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan, |
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