Video game characters also consider going on strike
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
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President Joe Biden will join picketing autoworkers in Michigan today, while former President Donald Trump is slated to visit tomorrow. More labor organizing news also broke overnight: Members of SAG-AFTRA have voted to authorize a strike against 10 major video game companies. Then, Ford pauses construction on a battery plant site. Plus, what exactly does it mean to have a “partial government shutdown”?
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| 0:00.0 | When video game characters also consider going on strike, I'm David Brancacho in New York. |
| 0:07.8 | First President Biden is doing Wayne County Michigan near Detroit today to join with |
| 0:11.9 | Picketing United Auto Workers Union members. |
| 0:15.2 | Democrats could once count on strong support from the UAW, given the long tradition of the |
| 0:19.4 | Republican Party supporting business. |
| 0:21.7 | But tomorrow Donald Trump makes his visit to Michigan to deliver a speech to current |
| 0:25.9 | and former UAW members who prefer the Trump approach to some issues, including immigration. |
| 0:31.7 | Joining us from Ann Arbor this morning is Eric Gordon, a professor at the University |
| 0:35.6 | of Michigan's Ross School of Business. |
| 0:38.0 | I asked him how this might go for the President. |
| 0:40.8 | Feelings out here are mixed. |
| 0:42.6 | I rubbed elbows with some auto workers and some of them are very excited that the President |
| 0:48.0 | of the United States might walk the picket line, they might get a photo op with them. |
| 0:52.8 | Here's a little more skeptical, even if his heart's in it, they're going to be some |
| 0:57.6 | doubters. |
| 0:58.6 | And then a visit from presidential hopeful Donald Trump the very next day. |
| 1:02.7 | Tomorrow also likely to get mixed reactions from auto workers. |
| 1:08.2 | Yeah, that'll be exciting because there are some auto workers who very much support |
| 1:12.5 | Mr. Trump and there are some auto workers who are adamantly against him. |
| 1:17.5 | Says a lot, right, given the fact that the Democratic Party has been seen as the traditional |
| 1:23.8 | supporter of the labor movement. |
| 1:26.0 | Life is more complicated here in 2023. |
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