Hot strike summer isn’t over

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Another week, another strike. This time thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers have initiated the largest healthcare strike in the country. And while different sectors of the economy have been walking off the job this summer, the demands all seemingly sound the same. We’ll also hear one CEO’s take on how AI can add more leisure time to all of our lives. And Beyonce at the box office!

Here’s everything we talked about:

- “Kaiser strike: More than 75,000 health care workers walk off the job” from NPR

- “Surgery and other medical procedures are delayed by the Kaiser strike, patients say” from NBC News

- “Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour Brings In Half-Billion Dollars—But These Singers Made Even More” froom Forbes

- “Beyoncé’s Silvery, Shimmering Renaissance” from The New York Times

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0:00.0	Let's do it.
0:01.0	I always say I know, it's like the brand.
0:07.0	Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adam, welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today
0:12.6	make sense.
0:14.1	I'm Kai Rizzov, Thursday 5 October, good to have you along.
0:18.0	Yes, and today we're going to be listening back to some audio from some of the big news
0:22.7	stories of the week.
0:24.4	We've got a few of them lined up already, and don't forget, you can send in yours as
0:27.8	well.
0:28.8	The first one.
0:29.8	All we're asking for is for what we are, what is the basic necessities of our hospital,
0:35.5	care for us, care for our patients, not outsourcing our jobs to other companies or other agencies,
0:42.9	actually invest in the community, invest in the staff that we have now currently.
0:47.8	That's why we're here in full and drive, showing that we care more about it than the company.
0:56.3	You know, it strikes me, that could be played for so many different moments.
1:01.6	I literally was saying, could be the UAW, you know.
1:05.6	Could be, could have been the writers, that would be outsourced to AI.
1:11.4	But in this case, it was Reginald Villanueva, who works in inpatient medical transport,
1:16.5	you're speaking with Fox 5 San Diego from the Kaiser Permanente Strikes.
1:21.4	This is the biggest health care strike ever, right?
1:26.5	The workers are in there, 75,000 people.
1:30.2	The workers are in the second day of their three-day strike today.
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