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Mitch McCann: US Correspondent tells us about US Ports major strike and how it impacts NZ · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The US President Joe Biden has just said there'll be
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  Speaker 1: more sanctions to come on Iran. Mitch McCann is our
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  Speaker 1: US correspondent is with us this morning. Hey, Mitch, morning Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: How are you good? Thank you, Good to have you
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  Speaker 1: on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Hey.
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  Speaker 1: The port strikes that are going on in the US
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  Speaker 1: are going to impact us here in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they certainly are. Fifty thousand members of America's largest
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  Speaker 2: port workers' unions and our own strike throughout US ports.
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  Speaker 2: They are demanding a five dollars an hour increase and
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  Speaker 2: pay every year for the next six years. They also
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  Speaker 2: want guarantees around automation or semi automation because they want
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  Speaker 2: to keep their jobs in the future. Wide a week here, well,
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  Speaker 2: this is likely to cripple US ports on the East
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  Speaker 2: Coast and New Zealand exporters are likely to be affected
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  Speaker 2: by congestion and delays. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
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  Speaker 2: Trade at Home advises exporters to stay in contact with
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  Speaker 2: their freight companies to see what options are available for them,
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  Speaker 2: and while the strike continues, to also keep in touch
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  Speaker 2: with their US customers to inform them about potential delays
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  Speaker 2: in the coming weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And let's hope it doesn't for things too far. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to North Carolina. The death well, actually a number
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  Speaker 1: of states have been impacted by this and the death
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  Speaker 1: toll rising from Hurricane Helen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Ryan, the images coming out of some of these
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  Speaker 2: states affected by Hurricane Helene are devastating. It's now the
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  Speaker 2: second deadliest hurricane to have the United States mainland in
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  Speaker 2: fifty years, after Hurricane Katrina. The death told the stonern
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  Speaker 2: stands at one hundred and eighty people. That's expected to rise.
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  Speaker 2: The toll in North Carolina you just mentioned as ninety
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  Speaker 2: one people, and Joe Biden, the President has now approved
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  Speaker 2: one thousand active duty soldiers to assist in the response
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  Speaker 2: in North Carolina. This is obviously still developing. Many people
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  Speaker 2: are still missing. In fact, as of last night in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Tennessee, eighty five people still missing after
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  Speaker 2: this deadly hurricane.
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  Speaker 1: Mitch. Thank you. Mitch mccanna, US correspondent.
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