He called their eforts a righteous fight , while insisting that all options are on the table. National union ship will determine the appropriate targets and timing for further Stand Up Strike action. This is our generations defining moment. The money is there, the causes righteous, the world is watching. In the uaw, we are ready to stand up. This is our defining moment. Lets take a quick look now at whats at stake, and whats in play for all 146,000 Union Members to walk out over time. Among the unions demands includes a 36 percent Wage Increase over four years. Automakers have responded with Wage Increases ranging from 17 and a half to 20 percent over a 4 and a half year contract. Speaking before the uaw announcement ford c e ojim farley told cbs news the Wage Increase demands are unreasonable. Weve always got something that is good sides and i dont know whether its good faith on good faith it is just disappointing and so devastating to so many of our employees. 0ur correspondent Mic
The gloves are apparently really off between those two. Well see where this goes thank you, caitlin. Good evening, im abii phillip, we bring with Breaking News that will have as massive impact on the entire United States economy. Less than two hours workers across the country are going on strike against the three auto makers. The first ever simultaneous of ford, General Motors and stellantis. Which owns jeep and chrysler. Were expected to hear from the president of United Auto Workers. 145,000 union members. Economic impact of 5 billion dollars. The union is demanding 40 pay increases. Better benefits and a fourday work week. Among the players in this whole saga is shawn fain, shes that uaw president who has been pretty unpredictable in talks so far. Also, the ceos of these companies who say that the demands will them out of business. Also there is the president himself. President biden. Hes under pressure both economically and politically tonight. First lets start with cnn Business Co
Her debut as moderator of Meet The Press sits down with donald trump. Well play for you what he said when asked if he told a staffer to delete camera footage. Later, Hundreds Of Thousands of immigrants brought here as children could be in limbo now that a judge ruled a program to protect them is unlawful. Well talk to beto orourke about that and more. And remembering the life of renowned artist fernando who has died at 91. In this hour, with our Breaking News overnight, right now nearly 13,000 auto workers are on strike after their union failed to reach a deal on a new contract late last night. This is a live look at striking workers at g ms plant in missouri. Strikes are taking place at three different plants. But the uaw union says there is potential for more if a deal is not reached. Some demands includes a 40 hourly pay increase. Reduced weekly hours and Pension Reform among other issues. One of the auto makers made a statement saying we are extremely disappointed by the uaw leader
and these two things don t go hand in hand. she s a very, very smart person and i m looking forward to her being back in office somewhere, someday, at some point. she s not ruled that out. politics is in her blood. appreciate it. have a great show. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i dopologize for not week here in this chair tis this time last week. i was out sick. i think i was in the last people in the country who never had it before, but i finally tested positive about a week and a half ago. i m vaccinated, so that helped me get an easier bout, and rested up and took a five day course of paxlovid, which honestly is kind of gross while you re taking it, but in my oin totally worth it. it s only five days of pills. by the end of my five days i had no fever, totally reduced symptoms, and most importantly i was testing negative and plot a risk to other people. anyway, i m back. i m sorry i missed you here last week. i also had to cancel and re