The UAW Strike / Hunter Biden's Gun Charges

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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United Auto Workers go on strike at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis factories, as Joe Biden takes their side. Are their demands reasonable, and what role is the transition to electric vehicles playing? Plus, Hunter Biden is indicted on three gun felonies, but where is special counsel David Weiss going on the tax investigation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:34.2	United auto workers go on strike against the big three Detroit car makers as special counsel
0:39.8	David Weiss and Dites Hunter Biden on three felony gun charges.
0:44.3	Welcome him Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:47.2	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnists Alicia Finley and Bill McGurne.
0:53.2	Shortly after midnight, Friday morning, United auto workers launch their first ever strike
0:58.7	simultaneously against all of the big three Detroit automakers that would be general
1:03.8	motors Ford and Stellantis at issue is a contract for about 146,000 factory workers.
1:12.4	It appears to be so far at least a targeted strike aimed at three plants, a Ford Bronco
1:17.6	plan and Detroit, a jeep factory in Toledo, Ohio, and a GM pickup factory in Missouri.
1:24.3	Let's start with a clip of Ford CEO Jim Farley explaining from his perspective what's
1:30.4	been offered and what the union is holding out for.
1:32.8	We have put on the table increases, double digit increases.
1:36.9	We've never seen before 20 plus percent.
1:39.7	If you include cola, it's even larger than that.
1:41.9	That's not 40.
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