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Stateside Podcast: The struggle of ongoing automotive strikes

Third shift Ford Michigan Assembly workers on the picket line
Tracy Samilton
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Michigan Radio
Third shift Ford Michigan Assembly workers on the picket line

There’s yet another development in the UAW automotive strike story: some 4,000 United Auto Workers at Mack Truck plants went on strike this week, rejecting a tentative agreement.

On this episode, we looked at the ongoing automotive strikes and heard about some perspectives on-the-ground.

GUEST:

Phoebe Wall Howard, Automotive Reporter for the Detroit Free Press

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Rachel Ishikawa joined Michigan Public in 2020 as a podcast producer. She produced Kids These Days, a limited-run series that launched in the summer of 2020.