outraged at this retaliation against chick-fil-a s perceived political or cultural viewpoints. what san antonio did was unconstitutional. what florida is doing is unconstitutional. it is the top of the hour and we re rolling into the fourth hour of morning joe. coming up, we have the former u.s. ambassador to russia and former u.s. ambassador to ukraine to talk about the latest moves in the russian invasion of ukraine. but continuing on desantis, disney, and the culture wars, david, your latest article in the atlantic is entitled free speech for me but not for thee. in it, you write in part, as the republican party evolves from a party focused on individual liberty and limits on government power to a party that more fully embraces government control of the economy and the morality, it is reversing many of its previous stances on free speech in public universities, in public education, and in private corporations. driven by a combination of partisan animosity and publ
prepared to strike 150,000 members. they have didn t find out late last night which plants would be targeted. right now around 13,000 workers at plants in michigan, ohio, and missouri have walked off the job. that s after their contract expired at 11:59 without a deal. they have been demonstrating throughout the night. the plan is to continue strikes if additional negotiations continue to fail. workers raked in billions off their it backs. more than 40% wage increase over four years. pension benefits for all employees, limiting the use of temporary workers and four day work weeks. the automakers the commands are unrealistic competition facing from tesla. here is ford ceo jim farley. i think for the plant states where there is a plant in kentucky, missouri, michigan, and ohio, this could be really devastating for those locations. it s restaurants. it s everything. gas stations. but we don t want that to happen. former president trump entered the conversation stating i str
just the first ten days of this. and when asked how long the strikes will last, uaw president sean says, as long as it takes. alexandria hoff joins us live with the very latest. alex. reporter: carley, todd, good morning to you, president biden said early last week that he wasn t going to worry about a strike until it happens adding that he didn t think it would. well it did. 11:59 last night workers for detroit s big three auto makers walked off the job when their labor contract expired without a deal. we are the union! we are the union! mighty mighty union. auto workers union! reporter: first targets of the strike are three plants located in missouri, ohio and michigan and span gm stellantis and ford union leaders say the plan is to target additional plants if negotiations continue to fail. and the demands are admittedly bold including a more than 40% wage increase over four years, pension benefits for all employees limiting the use of temporary workers and four
It s just not look, talk about ron desantis in florida. we can talk about free speech here. we can talk about during covid, desantis telling local school boards, you can t run. a state as diverse as florida with 67 county, you can t run your local school system in your county the way you are, whether you re in miami-dade or escambia county, florida. radically, there are like four different states here, but desantis said we have one approach and it s top down and from tallahassee. the same thing with small businesses. no, you can t run your business the way you want to run your business to keep it safe, whether you re a small family business restaurant or whether you re a cruise line. it s it is literally what we conservatives have fought against for decades, this top-down approach. now it is championed by a guy who s probably going to be the