Dockworkers from Maine to Texas are now on strike
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The strike is impacting shipments of things like fresh food, cars and machinery. Workers reportedly want a 77% raise over six years and want to keep their jobs of loading and unloading ships from being automated. We’ll discuss the major economic ripple effects the strike could have. Then, CVS is considering splitting itself up. And later: a voice from “the room where it happens” on U.S.-China trade.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive |
| 0:03.4 | It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy. |
| 0:09.6 | Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. |
| 0:14.4 | It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers. |
| 0:18.6 | Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change. |
| 0:22.6 | This could be the warmest year on record. |
| 0:24.6 | Climate change is here. |
| 0:25.7 | Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth. |
| 0:29.5 | And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s. |
| 0:35.9 | I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change. |
| 0:44.7 | This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis |
| 0:47.5 | to see how the military is preparing for the threat. |
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| 0:54.0 | A voice from The Room Where It Happens on U.S. China Trade. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm David Brancaccio in New York. First, dock workers from Maine. of |
| 1:05.0 | kind of |
| 1:12.0 | I'm David Brancaccio in New York. First, dock workers from Maine to Texas are now on strike. Immobilizing shipments of things like fresh food, cars, machinery, marketplaces Nancy Marshall Genser has an update. |
| 1:14.3 | The dock workers, represented by the International Longshoremen's Association, reportedly won a 77% |
| 1:20.5 | raise over six years. |
| 1:22.4 | They also want to keep their jobs of loading and unloading |
| 1:25.2 | ships from being automated. United States Maritime Alliance represents the port |
| 1:30.0 | operators. It says it's offered to increase wages by almost 50% and keep current language on |
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