#KeystoneReport: UAW vs the White House. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
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#KeystoneReport: UAW vs the White House. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/the-political-and-economic-impact-of-a-potential-uaw-strike
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.4 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour, |
| 0:12.3 | because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or |
| 0:16.8 | serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm John Bachelor with my colleagues Salina Zito, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, |
| 0:39.9 | the Washington Examiner, the middle of summer column, and the New York Post. The UAW has a strike |
| 0:46.1 | date of September 14th. The issues are vast, but at the same time we can focus them on EV, |
| 0:54.6 | those letters, UAW EV. The question is, what is the future? Salina, I understand that Sean |
| 1:01.6 | Fein is the president of the UAW, and the strike has now been approved by the membership. |
| 1:08.4 | There are talks with, I'm following your reporting, four General Motors and Stellantis, |
| 1:13.6 | which used to be Chrysler, and they're looking for answers about the EV future. What kind of answers? |
| 1:21.0 | What do they want to hear? Well, they're deeply concerned about electric vehicles, |
| 1:26.9 | because electric vehicles don't have transmissions, right? There's a whole, they're cheaper to make. |
| 1:35.2 | They require less workers, and they are going to cost the UAW jobs in Detroit. There's about |
| 1:46.4 | 100,000 members of the UAW all across the country. Most of them, although located in the Detroit |
| 1:54.1 | area. The Biden administration has been very active in pushing that EVs are the car, the future, |
| 2:04.2 | and there won't be any other cars in short order. The UAW is saying, wait a minute, |
| 2:11.7 | first of all, you're going to cost us jobs. Second of all, the battery plants that are being |
| 2:18.3 | supportive in the way that a transmission shop is supportive of the automobile industry. |
| 2:24.8 | The battery shops, the jobs in the battery plants are less money, and very often non-union. |
| 2:33.7 | And then the complexity as in the American people are just not buying EVs. |
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