Strike threat. Alex . The Labor Department says theyre keeping close watch on the talks. Theres nine days left for the uaw and detroits big three to agree to a new fouryear deal. If they dont, the 146,000 members have voted to strike. The unions demands are bold. Members are seeking a 46 pay raise, 40 hours of pay for 32 hour work weeks and for traditional pensions to be restored and Cost Of Living increases. Workers say the companies have raked in billions on their backs. A g. M. Executive said the demands have significant costs attached that would threaten manufacturing momentum. Its clear the two sides are still wide aparty. While in philadelphia yesterday forks labor day, President Biden said hes not so concerned. Mr. President , are you worried about an auto strike . [inaudible] he said he doesnt think its going to happen. Uaws president says he was shocked by this reaction. They said maybe he knows something we dont know. This all comes at a time when ford and General Motors are
I remember one night i could tell my dad was just so restless, i was in high school and the nix morning i asked my mom, i said what is matter with dad mom, and she said, well, honey, his company just told him they re going to do away with health insurance. no health insurance. well you know what, my dad is we were poor. my dad made a probably an average in those days, $20, $25,000 a year which is a decent salary. but woe say everybody is entitled to a little bit of breathing room. just a little bit. a little bit of breathing room. they know this is about dignity and respect. it is about building this economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i ve never seen a time and some of you may have beyond my college and the congress and the press may have your masters or doctor degrees in economics, name me a single time when the
Donald trump dominate the republican landscape for the next why not let him hang out for another three months? for the reason that i said, about the independent voters. but it donald trump wants to spend the next month talking about the president s college transcripts, i m sure they will be perfectly happy to have them taking credit. fleshing out the birth certificate. my buddies, let me tell you this claim, i know crump will step back from it s showman, well, i really didn t, i m glad it came out, all that stuff. played out beautifully. right. his charges were so ballooning, he was charging that this guy was like a don draper character, like in mad men. he didn t even go to the schools he went to listen to the charges he made, he was saying all through this ballooning, woe say, look, nobody knew him in school, nobody remembers him, nobody has come forward it is very strange it is very strange. and then there was all this other stuff about grades. he didn t have the g
Expressed support for harry reid bill. she will retract that. a lot of people questioning, know there is energy in the tea party side, and get candidates aren t as polished, aren t as experienced and make some mistakes. do you get worried when you see those things? no john. the campaigns are long and we all, as candidates have ample opportunity to put our feet in our mouth or put a foot in our mouth and i think what sharron did, i think it was very effective, 4% unemployment, 14% unemployment today. i mean, when people are thinking about jobs, be i think that is going to be very, very effective. i think small business, as you showed all those commercials about candidates talking about jobs, but in the t.a.r.p., no lending to small business, no inventive for small business. that is where the focus should be. quick. but i mean that s what if rahm were here, king of the mixed meta for example woe say,
Folks down there one of the best ways to help is to come down here and enjoy the outstanding hospitality. it is soing that when you re running for president, you can throw out all the slime balls, when you re president, you get all the slime balls much the fact of the matter is that president, then-senator obama said that the reason why he said that, at that time, it was a very easy thing to say because he wasn t the president. now that he is the president, he is the leader of the whole entire country and he has got to motivate people not only to go to the gulf but obviously to travel and do what we need to do when it comes to the beaches. what s interesting here is now the president is stepping back and being much more presidential and i guarantee that you if you were to ask him, john that in the oval office, do you regret that comment, mr. president, woe say probably yes. i don t think he would. i mean, back then how can you say that? it is very simple. i think at the time