UAW Strike Expanded, Government Shutdown, LGBTQ+ In Census Survey
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But IT advise is going to michigan to support the united auto workers union strike.

Workers are dozens more locations have gone off the job, even though the union says IT is getting somewhere .

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Other worker's union says that it's making progress in talks with forward.

but not so much with general motors in atlantis, the Christal parent company.

So dozens more workers at those two locations going on strike. And pears, k, join just me. Thanks so much for being with us.

Happy beer.

And what's the unions big move here?

Yeah so a couple of things. One, they are splitting the big three up. Like you said, now there's ford on the one hand and the other two on the other hand with four.

The union says they've secured some big winds at the table in terms of equalizing pay across different locations, job security provisions, raises that are tied to inflation. And so they say they're basically going easy on ford. Now still at strike on one plant, but not adding anymore on the other two. The union is expanding the strike to all of the company's parts union centers. These are not plants that produce vehicles, but these are basically warehouses that ship out replacement parts to dealerships.

And what are these strikes mean for for drivers?

yeah. So the strikes that started last week didn't have a huge impact and wouldn't for a very long time. But the strikes that just started yesterday could affect people who need a repair on a car.

I spoke to p divide. He's with a different union that represents workers at car deal ships. And he said, it's pretty simple.

The technicians can fix the cars without the parts.

Now dealers knew this was coming. Many of them stockpiled parts. But once they run through whatever they have locally, people might have to wait longer for a repair. And these parts that get shipped out from these distribution centers, they're tremendously profitable for companies like people might have suspected if they looked at the Price tag for some OEM parts, right, hugely profitable. So consumers are basically lateral damage here as the union is trying to hit the car companies right in the pocket book.

Um what can companies do about this?

Yeah we know that the automatic ers knew this was a possibility and they were getting ready for this. And these distribution centers, you know, they aren't like in a simply line where it's basically impossible to get IT back up and running if all your workers go out in the twenty nine U A. W.

Strike against general motors, there are some salary workers who were doing some work in these warehouses. I asked the video if he thinks the companies could avoid some snails with their parts by basically doing that, again, sending White colored workers to run the warehouses. And he said.

this do you remember? One felt when I strike many years ago, and they brought in the the replacement players.

full disclosure is got. I did not.

I, yes, I certainly remember that much to save. With all respect, the games were not very good.

Yeah, the video put IT like this.

Nobody watched. In this case, if you send them a team of accounts, nobody didn't get that parts.

So he is not optimistic about that back up strategy will will just have to see I I asked the companies. General motors said they have contingency plans that they are deciding whether to implement. They wouldn't discuss any further. Still.

artists declined to comment head well. He mentioned that .

president biden is heading the michelin to join the picket line, which is very unusual, as I understand, and possibly unprecedented, to have a sitting president out on the line. Uh, the car companies are really frustrated with the union. Sto says they made a competitive offer and haven't heard back at all.

G. M has called the unions demands untenable, even forward the company where of the union that they're making real progress forces. There are significant gaps between the company and the union.

So talks are continuing, but uh, definitely a possibility that more strikes will come. The strikes expands again and it's super hard to predict exactly what that might look like so much. thanks.

A looming government shut down. Now that seems more possible. After a bumpy week on capital hill.

house republicans couldn't get on a temporary spending plan and then went home for the weekend.

But when they do return next week, we'll have just a few days to try to figure out if they can avoid to shut down. And pears, congressional correspondent to a criticize, joins this cloudy a thanks so much for being with us. Thanks for having me.

scot. This wasn't to buy paris in divide. This is, this is house republicans who couldn't reagent IT among themselves right where .

they stuck right in a number of places. They had a lot of arguments over the past week about trying to put forward the most conservative proposal possible to keep the government open just temporarily. Just a few more weeks pass this approaching deadline, yet they were breaking down over top line numbers over whether to provide additional aid for ukraine or for a disasters anywhere ranging from hawaii to vermont.

They did start off the week on a positive note. There's lots of optimism for a bill that was being pushed by house republican leaders. IT was put together by two factions in the house, the main street caucus, which are more moderate republicans, and how freedom caucus members there, who are more along the hard liners direction.

But yet too many members in the party were opposed. IT was cleared by thursday. They were breaking down and could not agree on anything. And we can't forget that republicans hold a very slim majority in the house.

and they cannot lose much support. Republicans to do keep talking about passing old twelve of the regular spending bills. But is there enough time even for that?

no. And a house republican LED committee met yesterday to try and hang out these annual spending bills, but they won't be ready until a many, many weeks from now, maybe months. And so that's GTA miss that october one deadline were we could see a shutdown set in, if not even a temporary funding bill is passed by then. So those bills are partisan as well as they stop gap funding bill that I was proposed earlier this week. And so they are dead on arrival in the democratic LED senate.

Lady, what this mean for the coming week?

Well, it's a very high stakes week. Basically there some folks were hoping for some sort of a hill mary move that could get some sort of plan through both the house in the senate, but how speaker Kevin mccarthy has previously promised to his members at the beginning of this year that he would give them seventy two hours at three days and what's left in the remainder of this coming week to ham around a deal for a temporary funding bill, to review a bill before they vote.

And this is mccarthy facing round three of a showdown with his own members. The first was when he took the speakers, gave, that was a big fight with his own members of his own conference. And then the second was a debt limit fight, which really weakened his physician significantly.

And IT raises the question, does he have much of a future?

He is facing more vocal calls to be ousted. It's possible we could see more momentum there from his opponents for him to step down. But this is all tied the politics of a shutdown as well.

Can the senate dan speed things up to avoid a government they could .

try to send over their own plan to the house, but house republican leaders would have to assess their position on trying to push a partisan only bill. And we consider a bipartisan path instead. But that's a very tall .

order and peers, cloudy Grace ellish. Thanks so much for being with this.

Thank you for having me.

What is your current gender? And does gay, lesbian, bisexual, straight or something else represent your identity?

The sense spirit wants to know your answers next year is looking for Better statistics about LGBT q plus people.

They say the info could be used to fight discrimination in P, R. S. hangzhou. One has been tracking these efforts and joins.

Now welcome to the program. U I. 是。

So where might people start seeing these .

questions? We're do I hear about experimental forms for the american community survey that a annual survey that many household around the country have received, and it's not the one's a decade senses, but IT is a major survey. And adding these questions would change a really important set of government statistics. If the way house approves this test, about a half billion households will be asked to participate.

and everyone living in those households would be asked about their sexual orientation and gender identity.

No, only some of these households would see these test questions, and they would be directed to people age fifteen and order. Usually, it's one person in a household that fills out the survey for everyone in the home. And that's actually a big focus of this experiment, how people would answer the sexual orientation and general identity questions on behalf of any others in their household.

and how exactly might this information about sexual orientation and gender identity, how would that help protect L G B T Q plus people from discrimination?

Will multiple federal agencies have asked the census period to produce more statistics about sexual table and and identity? know? The justice department, for example, says that needs this data to Better enforce laws like the civil rights act, the fair housing act, and the Matthew shepard and James were a junior hate crimes prevention act.

Also, a lot of advocates for LG b to q plus people who've been pushing for this kind of data. I talked to carline medina, the poli director for the women Walker institute, which focuses on but a health care for LG B2Cults, people and people living with HIV. And here's what they told me.

In conversations with policymakers, we are often asked for data on L, G, B, T, Q, I. folks. How many folks are accessing a particular program, for example? And often is really hard to give that answer because of the patchwork of get a collection that exists right now.

You one way to think about this is the way the us. works. If you're not counted in official statistics, it's really difficult to get resources and other support from the government.

This is happening at a time when anti L G B T Q plus legislation in retaliation is is on the rise from right wing politicians in groups. I would imagine that might make the census bureau's plans for this test a bit more complicated. IT.

yes, it's been a long road for advocates for more government statistics about L, G, B, T, Q plans people to get to this point. In a few years ago, I reported on how the trump administration stopped earlier efforts because officials did want questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to be asked.

As current political climate does raise questions about how the data could be missed, I should point out, of course, there are federal laws that ban the census from publishing people's private information, and the by administration has ever size that fatal survey should allow people to choose whether they share their sexual orientation and gender identity with the government. You know, there's always this tension when you're talking about government statistics. There's a value and being seen. But IT comes with the risk that at some point in the future, policies around confidential may change or may not be followed.

That's in p rs. Hansei low. Wong hani, thank you so much.

You're very welcome.

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