A1 English News | Dock Workers Fight AI for Shorter Hours

Learn with slow English news for A1 listening practice.In this episode: Australia's dock workers want a 28-hour week with no pay cut as ports test AI tools and machines. Also: A major phone outage in Australia cancelled trains, cut mobile service, and disrupted some emergency calls.Today’s English focus: deeply concerning = very worrying. Vocabulary: outage (a time when a service stops working), restored (working again), emergency (a very urgent problem).Learn more from today’s episode with the full podcast transcript, English translation, vocabulary explanations, and extra learning materials: https://linguawire.com/episodes/english-a1-2026-07-09 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.