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it will put us in a recession for the fourth quarter. i believe i ve talked to everybody. i know there are a lot of tough discussions going on. i m trying to make sure everybody is hearing what each is saying. i think people don t realize that you have auto workers that are making less at the battery plant in ohio, it s reached an agreement, but they were making $16 an hour. people could go to the mcdonald s and make $23 an hour. people are worried and scared about their jobs. i have a plant in my district that may close. these are real issues. my workers are scared. i warned people that my workers were scared in 16 and donald trump could win, and i don t think donald trump is going to help these workers. i want to make that clear, too, but michigan is a state people need to be paying attention to right now. our workers are worried about their future and deserve to be paid a decent wage. yeah. extraordinarily important words, both in the short term, the summer of labor disconten
regulations. stuart: that s true. pay more it doesn t work as well. setting you up. pushing you around. pete: ask you one more question here about the potential strike at u.n. s. all of that use that and it effectively helps run the economy around. what would happen if they do go on strike? they deliver one quarter of all the packages delivered in measure. you stop and this you have got enormous disruption to industry and to consumers as well. this could be the summer of labor discontent. workers squeezed by inflation. you have a very prounion president. so the unions we got leverage. pete: now s the time. stuart: the uaw is talking about a new contract. the fly attendants at american airlines talk about a strike july 28th. all coming down summer of discontent. pete: white house might say settle this on terms favorable to the union because i back them.
The 100 largest public pension funds in the U.S. have seen their estimated funded status slip from 85.5 percent at the close of 2021 to 78.6 percent at the end of May.