>> coming up on one detroit.

we'll examine the u a w strike against the big three automakers and its impact on the history of laborer in this country.

plus, we'll unpack the results of a new survey asking young michiganders if they will remain in the state over the next decade.

also ahead, a twelve foot puppet.

symbolizing human rights makes its way to metro detroit.

and we'll give you some ideas on how you can spend the first weekend of fall.

it's all coming up next on one detroit.

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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> just ahead on this week's one, detroit, the detroit regional chamber and business leaders for michigan take the pulse of the states under thirty population to see if they plan on staying here.

plus, we'll tell you about little a mile's walk across america as a global symbol of human rights.

and dave wagner of ninety point nine wrcj has a list of fun activities taking place over the weekend and beyond in metro detroit.

but first up, we're taking a look at the historic united auto workers strike against detroit's big three automakers.

the union is using a new approach to walking out called a stand-up strike and it's striking all three companies at once.

when detroit's bill kubota takes a look at detroit's libor history and where things are headed as the u a w and automakers try to find common ground on really.

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> the ford plant in michigan avenue in wayne, where we find a where's waldo west hornblower out on strike for.

>> we've got to we've got to do it, rather be working.

but, you know, we've got to we've got to be a good one.

you've seen a strike before.

>> no, not not through fort.

i i've never been involved in it.

i started in nineteen ninety-nine.

>> got off work when straight here about a forty-five minute drive.

they do all well.

and they think the the bottom feeders we're talking car that weakening for.

i have a hard time going to the grocery store.

i struggle every that.

>> then a week the united auto workers won a big pay raise.

what they gave up when two of the big three went bankrupt during the recession and then into the two tier wage scale.

well, actually, i was on a tear for three years when i first tired.

and but, >> you know, but with the promise of making your way to act, it's eight years before you get too far.

and that's on real estate.

how can a young person, a young family and also by eighteen dollars an hour.

just not happening, too.

>> that is why we're launching a new kind of strike against ford and gm and stellantis.

we're calling it the stand up straight.

>> and innovation in striking hit all three carmakers at once.

one plant each.

if the talks greg on strike more plants as we get is a.

>> and change in kenner, which i think is more fitting with the times.

>> professor merrick masters, wayne state school of business specializing in labor issues.

lot of people call what's going on right now.

>> his store, where does this stand in terms of disputes in laborer history?

>> well, it is reminiscent of the sit-down strikes of the nineteen.

thirty-six, nineteen thirty-seven error.

it started up in flint, not standing up.

>> sitting down inside.

they slipped over counting the days until general motors gave in the u a w suddenly libor powerhouse.

other workers sat down to like these women at a woolworth department store americans.

middle class was bored.

>> these were strikes that were aimed at having a particularly crippling effect on businesses and also protecting the workers so they can ensure that the companies were unable to continue operations and thereby suburb.

>> purpose of the strike, more strikes that are contracts laborer flexed its muscles for decades.

then the decline in imports thrashing market share.

factories closed.

the latest strike, gm in twenty nineteen for six weeks now.

the big three are back to profitability in the big way.

workers demanding their fair share again.

>> seems almost like it's kind of a reset if we're looking back to the original strikes of old.

>> i think this is a reset for society.

we've gotten used to being rather complacent about asking for more for workers.

>> it seems like a lot of the population is sympathetic to the strike right now.

>> and certainly does based on the polls that have been done, a large number of people in the general public are sympathetic to the strikers and also, i think to waver in general it without the >> big raises in general.

what do you think we'll see here.

>> with this new i think that the u a w i would be surprised if they get to settle for anything really less than thirty percent.

>> but what is the general future of organized labor is a growing, is it?

>> staying level?

it's in a continual decline.

i don't see that reversing.

i'm not withstanding the rise in the activism.

>> well, some might say that.

what happens now if there's more success now with the u a w getting more of what they demand that might bring more unions to bear.

>> that has to be uppermost on the u a w nine.

it's got to be able to organize the foreign transplants.

it's got to be able to organize.

the test was the ons.

if it's not, then it's going to continue.

we see its position and all that we can.

>> meanwhile, another pay issue.

the salaries of top execs earning many, many millions.

the years ceo pay has skyrocketed by forty percent.

>> very on there its side.

what do they do to american much money?

i really would like to know.

>> so far, union president shawn fain, not happy how negotiations are goes, everything they're looking for its document.

>> it's about concessions.

so i'll tell you what i want to do with with their proposal of fila its proper place, because that's where it belongs the trash, because that's what it is.

>> well, sean thing might be seen is somewhat combative, confrontational or what's your take on that?

i think he's a.

>> in the finest tradition of laborer being a strong advocate unions and working people and realizing that that we have.

>> stand up and wage a fight when you think it's the appropriate moment for a cause that you believe that.

>> in their economy, one of our workers would have to work for a hundred years.

>> to make want to see makes in one year.

i wouldn't characterize him as a radical a revolutionary or anything by that stretch of the imagination of.

so listen.

>> i've heard the nonsense from some big three executives and some of their friends in the media about my foul mouth or theatrics or this or that i want you want to know something.

i don't do these updates because i just want to blow off some steam about insulting proposals.

i do these updates because our strength as a union is that our membership.

>> it feels like the eu is trying to take the power back on.

had used to beat everything is going on.

it kind of reminds me of the days of walter reuther, the fourth president.

a lot of companies today that are even union wouldn't even have the benefits that they have today if it wasn't for wall to fall for it.

>> it's also really part of the american labor culture bringing us the great middle class.

>> yes, that's absolutely true.

i mean, you don't get things without pain and suffering that see important part of human life.

>> it's also important to remember, i would add this.

the workers today are much better off than they were in the nineteen thirties.

they have decent pay and they have >> benefits, even though you may not like the way all their benefits are structured.

they've got good health care and they have defined contribution pension plans.

>> i would term so.

i mean, this is a much different.

>> i have been clear with the big three, every step of the way.

and i'm going to be crystal clear again right now.

if we don't make serious progress by noon on friday, september twenty-second more locals will be called on to stand up and join the strike.

>> but do we have that great disparity of income from the top to the bottom like we did back then?

>> or yes, packed.

we have a concentration of wealth, which is very reminiscent of that.

so the same old issues that i've always haunted person kind are still with us.

>> let's turn now to a new poll commissioned by the detroit regional chamber and business leaders for michigan in an effort to find out if michiganders under the age of thirty are thinking about remaining in the state over the next ten years.

one, detroit contributor and detroit news editorial page editor nolan finley caught up with the chamber ceo sandy baruah to talk about the survey's findings.

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> we'll say to you and business leaders for michigan recently surveyed.

>> young people about their outlook for the future and particularly the future, michigan.

it's got a bit of a disturbing find finding one third of the respondents said they look out ten years.

they don't see themselves living and working in michigan.

tell us about that survey.

>> well, you know, business leaders for michigan and the detroit regional chamber thought it would be very important to figure out what young people eighteen to twenty-nine year-olds are actually thinking.

i mean, there's a lot of us.

we are my age, you your age.

we're wondering about that.

and we definitely wanted to make sure that the governor's ball mission together, populations condition had that data.

but you're absolutely right.

sixty-four percent of michiganders say they see themselves here, you know, the next ten years or more.

that's not a bad number.

but that means there's, you know, about a third michiganders young michiganders who are seriously considering moving some place else.

>> now, the purpose of this surveys to provide some guidance to the policies, the business environment, the opportunities that aren't as necessary to keep those young people interested in engage in michigan to provide the opportunities what we need to do.

>> in my mind, there are three very clear buckets.

and the first and foremost is that it's very clear that eighteen to twenty-nine year-olds want the same fundamentals that every michigander walks safe, streets, good schools, working infrastructure, you know, quality government.

that's those are the basic source of the fundamentals.

that's bucket number one.

bucket number two is something that you and i talked a lot about what is really solid job opportunities, but they just don't want jobs.

they want careers and they just don't want her ears companies.

they want two years.

companies that are exciting that are often leading edge that have, you know, really modern workplace practices and that care about their employees.

i mean, they you know, they just don't want jobs.

they want really good careers and they want a dynamic economy.

and the third bucket is is that they care about social issues.

and i know this is a little controversial, you know, but the data is what the data it is.

and that is that things like gun control, which is certainly not an issue that, you know, our organization.

and i think i can speak for blm.

this is that's not on our agenda.

but it certainly has shown in the survey results, you know, you know, woman's right to choose, you know, things like a lgbtq plus rights.

and the data shows that vast majority of people, these young people care about these issues and want to live in a state that that kind of protect those right now, it's not monolithic.

i think it's very important to remember that these are not a monolithic number.

there are people who are on the other side of the of these years.

>> sandy, one thing young families, young people are looking for when they choose a place to live our quality schools.

as your survey indicate, we have been at this for decades in terms of trying to get education, right.

michigan tried a number of different reform initiative.

what's it going to take to finally turned the corner on improving our schools?

>> well, you know, i'm one of the original members of the launch michigan initiative to take a holistic look at our k through twelve education process.

and the one thing that i can say for absolute sure is that we will not achieve what we need to achieve by simply trying to reform our current system.

we need a new system.

i think, you know, people who understand what's happening in michigan k to twelve education will tell you that we're getting the results exactly as the process and the system is designed to do that.

so it is not like we can take one piece of it.

it's not just about metrics is not just about teacher accountability.

it's not just about money.

it is about a wholesale, we think about how we educate our children, the system that we put them in, you know, how the teachers are compensated, ha and how they're treated.

you know how, you know how we hold accountable, you know, kind of at the administrative level at the building level and at the classroom level off or results were not doing that right now.

or if you are doing it, you're not doing well.

>> sending your partners at business.

leaders for michigan have mentioned michigan's lack of stick to it.

if a nurse as a barrier to progress and a lot of the areas you talked to, we started issues is and don't support them with consistent policies, consistent commitment.

what do you do about that and how big of an obstacle is that to our our progress?

>> when you think about policy initiatives or policy legislation that is passed, you know, we have this kind of flip-flop reputation in michigan.

you know, let's take our economic development policies or approach.

for example.

you know, jennifer granholm had approached, you know, i think rick snyder became governor.

he had his approach.

you know, my question, reza, slightly different approach.

we are not known for consistency, ministrations when there's a flip in party and then we change our policies.

we look at successful states states like tennessee, virginia, texas, south carolina and others.

you know, they have a very consistent approach to major major policy initiatives, including including education and including economic development.

we need to emulate that.

>> a twelve foot puppet created in the image of a ten year-old syrian refugee girl is coming to the detroit area this weekend as a part of a free public art festival.

little amount is on a six thousand mile journey across the united states to bring attention to human rights and the large number of children fleeing war violence and persecution in their countries.

one detroit contributor deja mas spoke with the project's artistic director.

amir nazar is why bay about little mel's global walk and cause.

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> our first walk started in july.

twenty-one when we started and long journey from this same, take his border through sixty-five cities and hate countries all the way to manchester in the uk and her first walk on my own at over a million people.

when i was asked to leave the sect a sickly, i felt.

>> very, very pleased.

>> but also tortured, tormented by the huge responsibility and by creating a project that was an groundbreaking because nobody did a project of that scale with this kind of concept because i'm from palestine and from the same basket of misfortune in many ways like syrian refugees are.

i think that the three chains that come to mind when i think about tina mine is vulnerability and he's really ends and curiosity and in a way their own interconnected, right?

she is resilient because he's vulnerable.

she's vulnerable because he's curious.

he's curious because he's so its kind in many ways.

he's ten years old.

she's just a child.

i think of her as a real ten year-olds has a lot of experience.

obviously, she is a child of warren.

she is gone through a lot but she's so >> life loving and carry us and she'll always be fair.

ice cream hold their fear.

so we are in twenty twenty-three and i was as we speak, leisure lee.

now there are millions of displaced refugee children around the world.

the the message of don't forget about us is in today's world and in an affluent world, we believe that there is space for them.

there is a need to take care of them.

and we can just disregard this.

and i think that would be out project wants to do is first to raise awareness.

so people know that this happening and it's not happening as numbers and statistics and headlines in the newspapers.

it's happening to real people that are complete that are complicated, sometimes at least sometimes beautiful and sometimes silly, sometimes clever.

but they are people just like us and they shouldn't be held in limbo.

but we are all refugees, children, of refugees, grandchildren, refugees.

and we are also guests.

and i think this notion is something that we should constantly remind ourselves about.

and one of the most beautiful things about this project for me is that sometimes walking down the street, somebody who's for definitely not a new year arrived refugee and has been living in this community for years goes.

she is neat because i understand how it feels to be a fade or i understand how it feels to be alone.

our she reminds me of my mother, my grandmother.

so people people tend to think of hair.

i'm somebody that belongs to them.

and that's already a huge achievement of the product.

but one of the great things about the walk is that every walk isn't you want because every walk isn't you encounter with the new city with a new community in the city with the new different texture, you know, it's completely fresh every time that detroit is one of the city's i'm most excited about have company has ceded the state.

obviously, detroit has a very complicated history.

and in many ways, detroit says is a story of the phoenix rising and part of the feathers on the wings of that.

phoenix is the new immigrants, the refugee communities that are helping shape reshaped detroit and i think from miles heritage for where she comes from detroit in dearborn, michigan, as a whole has a huge de espera.

but what the city represents was really crucial for for the storytelling of refugee.

the discoveries the united states at the trade was never a question in many ways.

i think detroit is is an amazing place to be in right now with the mount.

i think she represents a lot of people in the city, but i think she also represent the city, right.

it is a story about is also a story about survival.

it's a story about resilience.

it's a story about somebody that keeps walking forward no matter the hardship.

and i think that is the city we're sorry, ten or so.

we we come with with a humble gifts to the table.

we wants to provoke thoughts.

we want to inspire people to think differently to act differently.

when i think i was the walk in fifteen years, i think what is the legacy it leaves in children that may take a day or in adults how would day thing differently?

what would inspire them to be?

well, coming to be a compassionate.

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> little amount will make stops in detroit.

ann arbor, ferndale dearborn and flint from september.

twenty-third through the twenty-seven.

you can find more details at one detroit, pbs dot or a lot of other indoor and outdoor events are taking place in metro detroit this weekend as fall officially begins.

dave wagner from ninety point nine wrcj has some ideas on how you can welcome in the season in today's one detroit weekend.

>> hey, i'm dave wagner with ninety point nine wrcj.

you know the first true fall weekend is upon us.

and guess what i have for you.

some incredible events happening around the area.

so let's start off with the great east.

earn market after dark, which happens tonight until eleven pm in the eastern market district.

you still have time to get there and experience the live music art and food.

the spectacle has to offer.

there's another opportunity to celebrate.

hispanic heritage month were authentic.

cuban culture will be celebrated with food, music and dance.

and through sunday, you can take the kids to little caesars arena to see disney on ice.

find your hero music from an conto on a frozen and more all featured as world-class ice skaters embody the iconic disney roles.

also on saturday, classic funk band.

the ohio players make their way to the music hall center for the performing arts.

then on saturday and sunday, the d town harvest festival takes place on west outer drive between plymouth in chicago.

in detroit.

we'll be live music, food and fresh produce from the detroit black community, food security network.

and of course detroit has.

>> and abundance of other events to check out this weekend.

here are a few more.

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> that will do it for this week's one.

detroit.

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