While official case numbers are for the most part being tightly guarded by management and the UAW, available information points to a continuing surge of COVID cases in auto plants.
vif l equivalent of that. it is a necessity like water and electricity. this deal would bring that internet service to everyone across the board. this deal also will put americans to work through a first-ever national effort to install electric vehicle charging stations. 500,000 charging stations nationwide along our highways and in rural and disadvantaged communities as well. think about what that could mean to the american autoworker and the future of electric vehicles. china is going full bore, they re providing more electric vehicles than any nation in the world. you know, it used to be when i first got to the united states senate, actually a couple actually in the 60s when i was getting out in the late 60s getting out of law school, what happened? we invested more in r & d and
as kevin pointed out, 75% of the cars don t have to be made in mexico where the u.s. 40% of the factories have to pay at least $16 in minimum wage. that can bring jobs back here to our country but others say this could hurt the carmakers down south that are nonunion like alabama and tennessee. this is the best news if you are in a unionized autoworker in the u.s. and it s geared in part to speak to that political constituency. but i would say it s going to raise consumer prices on cars at the margin. if even for those foreign manufacturers dimension, their stocks rallied and i think it s because they felt like it could ve been a lot worse. so we will help again to see canada get into this. there are some good things. eric: the president is giving canada a deadline of friday, what are they to do? to the jump on board? he would obviously like to see that come down. for everyone, what you hope is
he doesn t deserve the wall if it can t be built. you have mccain and many others who do not like trump and are willing to put our nation at risk, our sovereignty, and not have the wall just because they have a personal ven did he tell vendetta. you really think that? oh, i know it. reporter: there is personal disappointment about health care reform. repealing and replacing obamacare was a signature promise. ricky flynn says his health care costs are too high. about $600 a month. that s what they take out of my pension check. the cares account is more than that because we ve gone to autoworker. he works now as a security guard. it s the best job he can find at
willing to put our nation at risk, our sovereignty, and not have the wall just because they have a personal vendetta against trump? you really think that? oh, i know that. despite the praise we re hearing for the president from the michigan voters there s almost universal disappointment about health care reform, repealing and replacing obamacare was a signature promise of this president. ricky quinn says his health care costs are too high. about $600 a month. that s what they take out of my pension check. for you and your wife? yeah. the health care is actually a lot more than that because we pay a ton of stuff out of pocket. reporter: he s gone from making $40 an hour as an autoworker just a few years ago, to $14 an hour now working as a security guard. it s the best job he can find at this point, he says. you were counting on the president to get health care reform through? yeah. i believed that it should have gotten through. i know it s going to sound like i m just a