3 Things: The Dockworker Strike

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
When you need to know she's got you. It's three
things with Tip.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, good morning. We're just before seven o'clock on this Wednesday.
Nothing but blue skies and sunshine for this foreseeable future
here in Sincy, with temperatures varying it somewhere in the
seventy degree mark depending on what day it is, so
lots of good weather to enjoy ahead of us. We're
going to start off with a dock strike. Okay, this
broke yesterday. I had just told a story early on

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our six o'clock hour about how my best friend's husband
sent her to Kroger and Fort Mitchell at six am
this morning because he was concerned about the dock strike.
And I said, listen, I'm going to fill you in
on this, whether or not you need to be doing
the same, just in case you're worried about that dock
strike happened, like I said, about twenty four hours ago,

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where dock workers across some of our major ports here
in the US are on strike, mostly due to higher wages,
et cetera. Here's a clip.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Jacqueline Velow's as a single mother working at the docks
in New Jersey, her three little girls joining her on
the picket line.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Everything that come into this country comes in through us.
The supply that everyone receives daily, it comes through us,
and we're not appreciated.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Under the old contract, a DOC worker could earn a
typical salary of one hundred thousand dollars per year. The
union wants to boost pay to one hundred and seventy
seven thousand dollars annually over six years and add protections
against automated machine.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
All right, so somewhere around thirty percent of our supply
chain kind of comes through these docks. When there's more
on that one, I'll keep my eye out on it
for you. You know, I'll have it for you in
the interim. You don't need to go to Croker. At
six in the morning. Let's talk about the Let's talk
about the vice presidential debate last night, both candidates taking
the stage for one their one and only time in

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New York at nine o'clock last night, addressing a few
things immigration, economy, climate change, and then of course each
other's presidential candidates. Here is let's start off with Let's
start off. Let's start off with Governor Tim Walls. Okay,
here we go.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Talking about cities and where it's at the number one.
Where the most firearm deaths happened in Minnesota are rural suicides,
and we have an epidemic of children getting guns and
shooting themselves, and so we have and we should look
at all of the issues making sure folks have health
care and all that. But I want to be very

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careful this idea of stigmatizing mental health. Just because you
have a mental health issue doesn't mean you're violent.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
And then we'll play some audio from JD Vance as well.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
I think you got a tough job here because you've
got to play whack a mole. You've got to pretend
that Donald Trump didn't deliver rising take home pay, which
of course he did. You've got to pretend that Donald
Trump didn't deliver lower inflation, which of course he did.
And then you've simultaneously got to defend Kamala Harris's grocious
economic record which has made gas, groceries and housing unaffordable.

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Fair American citizens.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
We are almost like just about exactly a month away
from the election. Make sure you're registered to vote. There's
I'm gonna have to ear I'm gonna have to early
vote this year because I'll be traveling on election day,
and so I'm gonna have to go in person and
vote early, all right. And then lastly, in three things
you need to know, it was announced yesterday that legendary
Pete Rose had passed away and that was due to

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heart failure and they made that announcement yesterday. That's three
things for the second of October. Coming up at seven
oh five, we're commercial free. Good morning,