The Oh, Hello and welcome to Behind the News, my name is Doug Henwood. Today, like

almost every week, the two-guess model from which it is straying for a

Bowton to depart. Labor Scholar Stephanie Ross will talk about the

UAW's strategy in its strike against the big three automakers, and Christopher

Morton and Amy Kapsinski will talk about intellectual property and

industrial policy or how corporate America steals publicly funded research and how we might stop them from doing that.

Sorry to have no material on the Gaza crisis. A couple of possible guests fell through, but I'm working on several prospects and there will be plenty of coverage in the coming weeks.

Over the last month, the United Auto Workers have been striking the big three vehicle makers, but it's not been a standard strike. In a reversal of past practices they haven't

picked one of the three to target. Instead they're targeting all three. They're also not walking out all

at once, but instead picking individual plants as targets.

And as the UAW's new president, Sean Thane keeps emphasizing, they're doing it not just

for themselves but the entire working class.

Fane was elected as a reformer, and so far he's been an invigorating breath of fresh air and the public

reaction has been very satisfying a 75% approval rating according to one poll.

To analyze this strategy we're joined by Stephanie Ross. She's an associate professor in the

School of Labor Studies at McNaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Stephanie Ross.

The UAW is using some really innovative strikes, sorry for the fact that the president is wearing a eat-to-rich

t-shirt, that's pretty innovative too, but the strike strategy is unprecedented. They used to pick just one target of the big three companies.

Now they're targeting all three but in an unusual way so could just lay out the the structure of this strike? Yeah, I think that's what has really I think initially bewildered and

attracted the attention of so many observers to target all three of the Detroit three at once some said like well

that's that's too much like how could they possibly manage this to negotiate with all three

at once what kind of resource burden is that going to be?

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