Today is Saturday, September 9th.

It seems organized labor is having a moment

in what has already been called a summer of strikes.

Delivery drivers, teachers, airline pilots,

baristas, hotel workers, healthcare workers,

Hollywood writers and actors, the list goes on.

Have all either walked off the job or gotten close.

And another major strike could be just days away.

146,000 members of the United Auto Workers Union

or UAW could stop working as soon as Thursday

if they don't reach a deal with three

big American automakers in Detroit.

Later in the show,

we'll get into the key sticking points

in those negotiations and how a strike

might impact car prices.

But first, what's up with all these walkouts

across the country and across industries?

The chief economist for Zipper Cruder, Julia Pollock,

is here to explain.

She uses real-time data to measure the health

of labor market, identify hiring trends

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