Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week,

Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the

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Brian Lair on WNYC, now our climate story of the week, which we're doing every Tuesday,

all this year on the show. Last week, both of the front runners in the 2024 presidential race

headed to Detroit to garner the support of striking United Auto Workers. The union has been striking

as you know against the big three automakers in the US for a 40% pay increase and a four-day work

week and a return to traditional pensions among other things. President Joe Biden joined the UAW

picket line on Tuesday last week, making him the first ever sitting president to join the

picket line. He backed their demands. Let's take a listen to a short exit.

You guys, UAW, you see the automobile industry back in 2008 and the four. Made a lot of

sacrifice, gave up a lot and the companies were in trouble, but now they're doing incredibly well.

And guess what? You should be doing incredibly well too. Now the UAW was also asking for job

security as the auto industry under President Biden moves toward electric vehicles. There are

concerns that EVs may need fewer workers. Ford CEO estimated that it may be as much as 40% fewer

workers. So Republicans have picked up on that point as an attack line and a line of attack

on President Biden's inflation reduction act, which has put billions into clean and energy

alternatives and provided incentives for EV production and purchase. The day after Biden's

visit, so that's Wednesday last week, Trump held a rally in Detroit at a non-union manufacturing plant

and he went after EVs, like a lot of the other Republicans hoping to be President did on the

debate stage. Also last week, take a listen to Trump. Every time Joe Biden and the UAW's political

leadership talk about a fair transition to all electric cars, American labor will be under siege.

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