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It's day four of an auto worker strike that shut down three plants. We take you to the picket line.

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General assembly and drew berry more said her show would resume with out writers, then reverse the decision after being called a cap.

I deeply apologize to writers. I deeply apologize to unions. Deeply apologize.

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Today is day four of a historic union strike. Three plants have shut .

down after contract talks broke down last week between the united auto workers union and the detroit three auto makers. Those manufacturers are four gm and santis, the parent company of jeep and chrysler. It's the first ever strike against all three .

at the same time and OS transportation and energy reporter, and she's the picket line that forwards assembly plant in vain. Michigan is one of the three plants where workers have walked out and are now picking in. Good morning, Tracy.

Good morning. So true.

You out there on the picket line, water people saying.

well, we have a group of folks out there with their picket science. They're at the end of the shift, they signed up for picketing and they get excited, of course, when they have somebody drive by. And you will probably hear that as i'm talking to heaving their horn and support of the union. Uh, I think you're gonna find the same thing here is, you know other striking plants, they are resolute. They are fairly defined at this point.

So it's the fourth day of the strike breakdown with the key points of contention here what these auto workers want.

Well, uh, it's it's a long list. But I think, of course, number one is wages. The union has asked for forty percent increasing wages over the four years of the next contract, and they've come down somewhat to the mid theorists, but they're still pretty far from the top counteroffer from ford and general motors, which is twenty percent.

They also want the end of tears to wage us so that you just start right away with the same wage as anyone else who's been at the plant for a longer period of time. And they want the thousands of ten workers that these companies are using to be offered full time work on. Those ten workers are making twenty dollars now our top in some of the the plants and is really hard to make IT these days on that.

yeah. Is there any progress on closing the gap between the union and companies?

Well, they did bargain at least with a general motors and ford over the weekend. So we got a couple of really, really turn statements from the union on saturday. We heard quote, we had reasonably productive conversations with ford today and on sunday, even more times we met with gm today. So is that a whole lot that we can read into that?

Yeah I don't know what he says. We met with gm today. So really we don't know much about what's going on there. Um so there have been layoff. So right, how do those relate to the strike?

Well, forward immediately said they were laying off six hundred workers at this plant here, michigan, an assembly plant in wain, michigan, because the union called off the paint shop workers and the final assembly workers. And ford said, well, that means we can do the rest of the work here at the plant. So those folks have been laid off. And general motors says they are going to need to lay off folks at their fairfax plant because the winds civil plant, which is on strike, produces parts for fairfax. So we're expecting that to happen too.

That's Tracy sammo ton, michigan radios, transportation and energy reporter at the picket line ford assembly plant in win, michigan. Thank you, Tracy.

Yeah, thank you.

Global leaders are gathering in new york this week for the annual meeting of the U. N.

General assembly. Climate change is very much on the agenda. U. N. Secretary general antonio guitarist has invited countries to a special climate summit. Then there are talks and event scheduled throughout the week and of course, protests. Tens of thousands of people marched in manhattan yesterday and one of the biggest climate protest we've seen since before the yeah and P.

S. Rachel waldholtz there and now she's here with us from the climate desk.

Good morning, Rachel. Good morning.

okay. So raco you were at that march yesterday. What were protesters demanding?

Protesters at this march were focused on basically one big thing, and that was facing out fossil fuels. I should know that this protest was very much directed at president joe biden, so protesters were demanding the president act more quickly to move the U. S.

Away from burning fossil fuels like coal and oil and gas, which are the biggest drivers of climate know and actually bite. That has taken some real significant steps on climate change. So the inflation reduction act, for instance, which passed last year, directed hundreds of billions of dollars to technologies like wind and solar and electric vehicles, all to cut U.

S. emissions. But the organizers of s. Rage protests say that that is not enough, and they want biden to stop approving new fossil fuel projects, basically to use his executive powers as aggressively as possible to curb the production and use of oil and gas in the U.

S. And these protests, and this week at the U. N. General semble, is coming after a summer of extreme weather, heatwaves, deadly wildfire in mali, absolute devastation after flooding in libya, with facing our fossil fuels more quickly, help prevent summers like the one we just saw.

Well, the short answer is that we have already locked in a certain amount of warming, so now it's about preventing things from getting much worse. So our current level of warming already makes many types of extreme weather more likely. He, and drought can make wildfires more intense. A warmer atmosphere makes heavy rain more a common that contributes to flooding.

But science to say, if we want to avoid even more common extreme weather and other more catastrophe hic consequences of climate change, like really high school level rise, we need to cut globe emissions roughly in half by the end of this decade and reach basically zero emissions, twenty fifty. So that means burning a lot less fossil fuels in the very short term. And right now, we are not currently on track to meet those targets.

A recent U. N. Report found that countries need to cut emissions much faster, and a lot depends on what happens in this decade.

Yeah and right now, global powerful people all in new york climate is on the agenda this week. What should we expect from the climate ambition? Summer the U N chip is hosting.

Its a good question because this is a new event um and it's basically the secretary general is trying to spotlight exactly this issue. So he's asking countries and also companies to come to this summer with new plans to get on track to flash emissions more quickly. And in fact, he made clear that countries are only welcome to participate in the summit if they come with credible new commitments to these out fossil fuels or for wealthy countries, new funding commitments to help developing countries cut emissions or adapt. Um when he announced the summer, he was really clear on this and he actually said, quote, there will be no room for backsliders Green washers, blame shifters or rebook aging of announcements from previous years unquote. And apparently that bar leaves a lot of countries out because so far it's not entirely clear who is going to show up a neither biden nor SHE janne of china plan to be there that's the world's two largest emitters though in a sending his climate envoy john kerry um but ultimately this is an effort by the U N. To highlight countries that are taking more action and create some peer pressure for other countries to build some momentum and lead up to big annual climate negotiations that are coming this winter in dubai.

And here is Rachel childhood. Thanks so much to thank you.

Drew berry, mom jennie hudson and the talk are delaying their day on talk shows over the hollywood strikes.

The decision come after several shows planned to resume production this week and after do very more, in particular water.

And the Manda y. Debark joins us now from last Angeles to discuss all this time. Hello, good morning.

Good morning. So this is a reversal from what drew, barry more and other talk shows announce last week. In the midst of this strike was IT backlash from strikers that .

LED to the change. yeah. Well, drew very more, you know, since her daytime talk show has become a daytime drama. That's what we're all talking about now. When the writer strike first started, SHE publicly said he was in support to even turn down hosting the mtv awards. Then last week, he and else the fourth season of the show was coming back.

There were protests on social media, even by her own writers, and the national book awards presented its invitation for her to host its annual ceremony a few days later. On friday, barry more seemed to double down on the decision to resume. SHE posted a tearful video message on instagram.

deeply apologize to writers. I deeply apologized to unions. I deeply apologize very more.

said he was taking full responsibility for the decision to resume. But there were so much backlash to that video people online calling her a cab that very more quickly deleted IT and yesterday SHE posted again saying SHE had listened to everyone and is no longer preparing her next season until the strike ends.

Um I mean, but true bar more wasn't alone in this decision. We mention this kind of dominated fect others were gna come back. Why was there so much attention to do anymore?

Well for one thing um drew berr did make these very public announcements. And second, she's been famous almost her whole life. People still remember her as the little girl who was friends with E T. In the nineteen and eighty two film where SHE came from, hollywood royalty journalist Michael shelton told me he was reminded of something he learned while writing his book's Oscar wars. He says jew's great and f. Bo had been a theater actors and vice president of the union actors equity, schlein said in thousand nine hundred and twenty nine, when the union was trying to include movie stars, fall very more single handedly undermine that effort.

The union members were really angry. Ed, i'll barry more. And one of the actors said, if this barry more could not say anything beneficial for us, at least you could have done, would have been to keep still. And also came out that I feel anymore, had met with a producers, earing thomery and jeff Warner, and dressing room in that year, taking a role in a Warner brothers film. So there was just all the outcry that effect od basically parachute ted and derail this whole effort.

Shema says that effort to union ze movie actors and equity failed. And later that year, forty five of them banded together to create the screen actors guild. That's the union that drew Better, more is a member of today. And the one that is on strike right now.

Yeah, that strike has really ground hollywood to bus stop. The writers guild, the major studios, will resume negotiations this week. Any sign that anything will change?

By all accounts, two sides are at an impasse. My sources tell me the strike might go on until january, but meanwhile, bill marr is set to resume his talk show later this week, and another talk showed the view has .

been on the air all throughout that npr, andi dell bargo in.

Thank you.

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