3187 - The Writers Get A Deal; FTC Files Complaint Against Amazon w/ Greg Iwinski, Moe Tkacik

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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It's Hump Day! Sam and Emma speak with Greg Iwinski member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) negotiating committee, to discuss the agreement struck between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end their strike. Then, they're joined by Moe Tkacik, investigations editor at the The American Prospect, to discuss her recent piece on the complaint levied against Amazon by the Federal Trade Commission.

Find out more about the WGA deal here: https://www.wga.org/

Check out Moe's piece here: https://prospect.org/power/2023-09-27-redacted-case-against-amazon/

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0:00.0	You are listening to a free version of the majority report. Support this show at join the majority report dot com and get an extra hour of content daily.
0:18.0	It is Wednesday October 4th, 2023. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five time award winning majority report.
0:28.0	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gwannis Canal in the heartland of America downtown Brooklyn USA.
0:41.0	On the program today, Greg Iwinski, member of the Writers Guild of America Negotiating Committee on the historic deal.
0:53.0	Struck and soon perhaps to be ratified by the WGA membership.
1:01.0	Then, mode tatchic.
1:04.0	Investigations editor at the American prospect on what we don't know about the FTC lawsuit against Amazon.
1:16.0	Also on the program, Kevin McCarthy. Remember that guy?
1:24.0	First speaker in the history of the country to be voted out of office.
1:31.0	Meanwhile, the Republican House in total disarray as the fight to be the next speaker begins.
1:40.0	75,000 Kaiser Permanente hospital workers on strike cross multiple states across the country.
1:51.0	By the administration to announce some limited student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers worth 9 billion in debt as they continue to roll out their patchwork student debt relief programs.
2:08.0	Meanwhile, day 18 of the UAW strike is the big three are starting to rack up losses.
2:16.0	DOJ sues a firm over price collusion amongst meat processors.
2:24.0	Yeah.
2:26.0	Yeah.
2:28.0	Trots all.
2:30.0	Meanwhile, Donald Trump gets a gag order in a in his fraud case after attacking his judges clerk.
2:42.0	New center for relations chair Ben Carden blocks the aid to Egyptian military in the wake of the menendium.
2:53.0	And as indictment.
2:56.0	And September shattered global heat records for September by a record margin.
3:08.0	All this and more on today's majority report.
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