UAW Strike Latest, Migrants in Italy, Azerbaijan Cease-Fire
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more workers could join a strike against the big three automakers ers that already includes thirteen thousand workers across three plants.

The point is to get a fair deal out of him.

So what is a fair deal?

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In the past few days, more than twelve thousand migrants made IT to the italian island of lampaxo. The journey is risky. Many drown.

One of the worst trades here was a decade ago, boat. And just off the cost line. What's italy doing? avoid.

There's a ceasefire in the goal kabba in the south .

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We're just hours away from a new deadline set by the united auto workers .

on whether more auto workers join the strike in the order makers.

P. S, Andrea shoe has been covering the story and joins us now.

Hi, Andrew. hi. Good morning.

Good morning. So catch us up. How did the union get to this noon deadline?

Well, it's been exactly a week since the strike first began. Last friday, we saw roughly thirteen thousand odd workers walk off the job at all three of the big three at once. IT was gm foreign santis, the parent company of chrysler, and that was the first for the union.

And we have seen a river effect this week. All three companies have temporary laid off workers who were not striking a couple thousand and all saying they can't properly do their jobs. well.

The plants elsewhere in the supply chain e or shut down. And earlier this week, we heard U, A, W. Presidents shown thing that kind of impatient. He said a new deadline, saying if there's not serious progress in these talks by friday, that's today at noon, we will call on more workers to join the strike. So that's where we are now.

okay. So what does serious progress mean?

Well, he didn't specify. And this is part of Shawn fain strategy, keeping everyone guessing that important that the talks have not reached an impasse. The parties have been trading for proposals this week, and negotiators have been meeting face to face, having side conversations.

And from what we can tell, there are still quite far apart on a lot of big issues, from wages to how long IT takes to get to the top wage and to retirement benefits. But at some points that you know soor, maybe sooner, maybe later, somethings gotto give. I spoke to a labor history in this week, eric luma, and he reminded me that auto companies and the union actually have some common goals. They both want the car companies to be profitable and to control a sizable piece of the market.

It's not the goal of the U A, W. To bring down for gm and Christliche. That's not the point. The point is to get a fair deal out of 在 卡 early。

There remains a lot of disagreement over what's fair.

Yeah, of course. So where does this leave workers? Um a weekend to the strike? How are they doing? What are you hearing from them?

Yeah, they appear pretty fired up. Of course, everyone's wondering, is my plan going to be next? There have been rallies this week as I detroit, as well as last night in chicago and kentucky. And here was were shot Martinez at one of those rallies last night. He works at the ford planned level.

Well, I got work tomorrow, so will be that crew to walk off. And I tell you are ready.

And we have heard some frustration from the ranking file about the strategy that the U A. W. Has deployed of targeting just a few plants first. But there is also been a lot of praise workers comparing IT to a chess game or a game of battleship. You know, in facebook comments, one person posted, john fy knows where all the boats are, and he knows exactly how to sink them.

Okay, so sounds they have confidence in him. What are the automakers saying?

Well, this week we ve heard them fight back against some of the union radic. You know, the U. I, W has been calling them out for being greedy and for paying poverty wages. Um G M.

President marc roys had been up ed in the detroit propres this week, say, look, we've offered a twenty percent rates over four years and that would bring most of our workers up to a base wage of eighty two thousand dollars a year and then close to double that when you add an overtime and benefits and other workers do work a lot of overtime um you know he also stressed the need to reinvest profits, including into electric vehicles. And he wrote, the auto company that doesn't invest in its own feature gets left behind. The big three are already worried that their labor costs are much higher than that of their non union competitors. Test of, of course, and also honor and toyota, who have plans in the south.

So IT sounds like things maybe changing this morning, if that happens, will come back to you. And P, S. Andrea, shooting. Andrea.

thanks so much.

Last week alone, more than twelve thousand people from north africa landed on the small medicine ian island of lapedus.

a that's double the island's population. Lam produces only one hundred twenty miles from tunisia, but he belongs to italy, which means migrants who land there in our europe, which is now once again trying to handle a migrant crisis that never really went away.

P. S, W, sherlock just returned from the producer and joins us now from rome. Good morning room.

Good morning. So tell me about the situation. There are on the island.

Well, I should describe this island later. It's tiny, seven by two miles across, with a population about six thousand people. Unlike a said there, you know, the town's deputy mir estimates that twice the number of migrants arrived on the island as the population itself, the reception centre was just overwhelmed. The migrants were hungry and exhausted, and they crowded the streets of the town matches, which are full of tRicky shops for tourists. Matter of IT, there is a retired local as spoke with there, and he said, you know, IT was residents who stepped in when the italian this.

Is they're .

all on the .

street .

asking for food. And what do we meant to do not give them something to eat? Know everyone on the island valley, you know, if people will let them into their homes to wash and shower. Now most of those migrants have been taken to sissy or the mainland, but I found residents of lab producer still in rebellion, not against the migrants so .

much as the alien government.

Well, first prime minister georgian miloni SHE campaigned on a promise to reduce the number of migrant arrivals to italy. That clearly hasn't happens. There's one hundred and thirty thousand people that arrive this year so far.

And in one produces, people are terrified that these arrivals mean they're going to lose their way of life. So atilius cha is the towns deputy man. He said he scared that the island will become .

a of detention center. We hear him there .

talking about alcatras, the island prison, and he says, here we live from tourism and fishing, and we don't want that to change. Russia and other residents are so sensitive to this that when the government recently tried to send tense to house the migrants island has blocked the ship at the port that was Carrying them.

So people really worried about migrants on the island. But also it's a really dangerous journey for the people trying to make IT. Many have died making that journey. What are E, U. Governments doing about these things?

absolutely. You know, it's the E. U. Commission president. Vessel of on lay in is champion this ten point plan that includes things like paying tunney a where lots of migrants set sale from to more tightly patrol the waters there.

And there's talk of, you know standing with italy like won even came to lamp decca last week. But in practice, france is tightening its border controls. Other countries are doing the same.

And you know there are there is sympathy for what migrants are going through. But IT doesn't seem like that is translating in to european governments wanting to offer them at home. And so this migration crisis is straining the kind of norms and principles of things like freedom of movement and human rights that the european union has traditionally tried to stand by.

That's npr, a roof. Sherlock in Brown. thanks. Th.

thank you.

A shake ceasefire in the south caucus's appears to be holding the .

former soviet republic of other bye, john says. IT has now reestablished control over the break away ethnic armenian enclave of negro cabbage that follows in as a bijan ni offensive earlier this week that the supper, say, killed at least two hundred people in, injured many more.

Joining us to talk about all this in the latest on the ground as well as its impact on the region is npr. Charles means in moscow high Charles morning. Good morning. So what's the latest?

What do you know? The ceasefire appears to be mostly holding, but it's a ceasefire, I should add, that imposed entirely netherby jon's favor, but who stopped its military offensive, but on the condition that gonna colour bus army surrender as a about han's president dilema ea later declared that control over the gonna atoc had been completely restored.

And so in little over a day, as bijan appears to have crushed this decades long independence movement in the corner, co baa with armenians, historical call art sock, that's of course, triggered concerns among I I think, our minions about reprisals. So there's a long, long history of bad blood between the two. But when that other bijan insists it's trying to overcome, I spoke with the long, solemn, solemn, his other bijan, current ambassador to the U.

K. Previously to the us. Who argued reintegration talks, which got underway yesterday with themselves a counter argument. Any charges as a byran intends to force out armenians does that.

If we want to people to leave, we want to integrate. We don't want them to leave. But we are not going to keep anybody by poster if they don't want. The basis is not as a vision. I mean, this is the choice people have now.

The fighting this week raised concern about a wider regional war with neighboring armenia, which has fought two with user jon over this enclave. The last one, and twenty and twenty. How are people reacting in armenia to this offensive? And now this truth?

Well, there is a lot of distrust of us about jian armenians. So the government is bracing for a flow of refugees. I have to gona cut a buck. I mean, while the government is also bracing for more angry, protested home. So for a third straight night, we saw sizable demonstrations demanding the ouster of the prime minister in all pushka over his failure or refusal to intervene on the gna a about behalf. Now push yan has his reasons armenia in a far weaker position literarily than bijan, in particular, given other bijan backing from turkey, its traditional and armenians are also frustrated, I should add, with russia there ally, for fAiling to prevent us by jan from launching this offensive in the first place.

Okay, so what's russian?

But russia is completely wrapped up with the war in ukraine, which seems you've impacted its ability to play its traditional role of regional cup, not only with moscow peacekeeping force, which is on the ground there since twenty twenty, not enforcing the pieces as this new fighting broke out. But for months we've seen russia look the other ways as the byran imposed a partial blockade goods into the gonna cut.

A book, you know, many saw this as reflecting moscow growing reliance on other bijan in turkey for trade, given western sanctions, but you know, also not helping things. Our media, government is taking action, seen as unfriendly by moscow recently, including calling its reliance on russia for security and mistake. In fact, armenian just hosted U. S. Forces for training exercises that that didn't over well here in moscow.

So we've talked about sort of the region what's happening. But what does this mean for ethnic armenians were living in this enclave?

What what happens to that armenians in the gona cut box is the big question here. And depending the answer, you could still see armenia somehow drawn into yet another conflict with us or by john. And that could trigger wider consequences, drawing bigger powers like russia.

turkey and even around to the west. Enter the phrase go.

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