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Federalist Radio Hour

Making Sense Of The UAW Strike

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Sean Higgins, a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the United Auto Workers strike and explain unions' complicated relationship with the Biden administration.

Read more from Higgins here.

Transcript

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We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:35.7

I'm Emily Dishinsky, culture editor here at the Federalist.

0:38.1

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0:43.6

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0:48.5

as well. We're joined today by Sean Hagen. Sean is a research fellow at the competitive enterprise

0:54.4

institute, specializing in labor and employment issues. You can learn more about

0:58.6

cei over at cei.org. You can also read a recent piece of writing that Sean wrote that I found

1:04.6

very helpful, called United Auto Workers, one a bigger slice of a shrinking pie, UAW,

1:10.0

of course, voted to strike. Last night, they're on strike now. Sean, thank you for joining us.

1:16.8

Can you tell us a little bit about the dynamics of this strike? I think it's something like

1:22.3

150,000 workers might be affected by it. My number might be off by that 12 plants. Can you just

1:28.0

kind of give us a background of what's basically going on here? It's about 150,000 workers at,

1:35.3

yeah, about that many plants. And they're striking at GM Ford and Stellantis,

1:41.4

combined these three account for about 40% of U.S. domestic manufacturing,

1:46.9

Warren plants account for the rest. There's a fair number of

1:52.4

foreign owned plants in the U.S. that make foreign brand things. So we have Toyota's made in the U.S.

2:00.4

And there's a lot of those factories throughout the South. Those are typically not unionized.

2:05.2

So, well, headlines we make you think the entire auto industry has walked out. In fact,

2:11.7

it's only about two fists of the entire domestic manufacturing. And the interesting thing is,

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