Making Waves: Auto Strikes, Impeachment Hearings, and Channel Swimming

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🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Autoworkers across the country are joining the picket line in a strike against General Motors. They say the company needs to give them better wages and benefits. Meanwhile, President Trump’s former campaign manager was on Capitol Hill today for the first official impeachment hearing. Also on today’s show: Indonesia is making a big change to its child marriage laws, and an American is making waves across the pond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, September 17th.
0:03.1	Welcome to Schim this.
0:04.3	We're breaking down the most complex stories of the day and giving you the context on
0:08.2	why they matter.
0:11.9	Almost 50,000 workers are on strike against General Motors.
0:15.7	We'll look at what the biggest US labor strike in more than a decade is all about.
0:20.5	Then President Trump's former campaign manager was on Capitol Hill today, as the House Judiciary
0:25.3	Committee weighs impeachment.
0:27.6	And finally, we've got the story of one woman's 54-hour swim, and it was epic.
0:34.3	We're here to make your evening smarter.
0:36.3	Let's skim this.
0:39.2	Today's episode is brought to you by LeCroy Sparkling Water.
0:45.3	The most complicated story today is about auto workers.
0:51.5	Nearly 50,000 workers hit the picket line this week in a strike against the classic American
0:56.3	car company General Motors.
0:58.8	GM.
0:59.8	It's the biggest strike by any labor union in the country in 12 years.
1:03.9	In some economists warn it could be so disruptive that it could hurt the economy in certain
1:08.0	states or even across the country.
1:11.4	So today we're going to get into why auto workers are on strike, how the strike could
1:15.6	impact the economy, and why the strike could also test the power of labor unions across
1:20.4	the US.
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