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🗓️ 8 April 2022
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0:00.0 | So you were at the bus stop and you were talking to people who are like coming home from work or arriving at the facility |
0:05.8 | And then you talk about like this a workers committee that's like inside the facility itself |
0:09.8 | There were in the union t-shirts. They're talking to people about forming a union |
0:12.8 | Could you talk a little bit more about like how those workers committees? |
0:15.5 | Like how that operates and like what was the pitch that they were making to workers to like get them on board with something like this? |
0:21.7 | Well, it worked because my lead organizers just like myself |
0:25.5 | are ingested in the company, you know, Derek Palmer, our vice president |
0:30.9 | He's a sick here Amazon bet, you know, I opened up three buildings. He opened up two or three years and so so he has a larger influence on his co-workers |
0:40.3 | You know, his co-workers know who he is. They see him all the time in the media |
0:44.6 | Speaking out about workers' rights, speaking out about their rights because he's the Amazon worker and that help |
0:49.8 | You know, it's workers to not be afraid anymore because they're like wow Derek been here. He's been with Chris for over two years |
0:57.7 | I can never use the work directly underneath me and he still has a bit of retaliation against so the retaliation |
1:05.5 | rumors and stuff like that start to dwindle because |
1:09.0 | He's still employed and he's not you know |
1:11.7 | Fired or I want to find no I want to write up. He's just organized and Amazon pretty much can't do anything to him because he's in good standing and |
1:20.1 | Now what were some of the were some of the tactics that like Amazon and these consulting firms that they hired to |
1:25.8 | counter this unionization effort like how did that work and like what like what do they do to counter the efforts of the work and committee inside and outside of the building? |
1:33.3 | I can tell you now there's been millions of dollars |
1:35.9 | Well, wasted |
1:36.9 | millions of dollars because they lost but you know, I can tell you they put these workers into the class means every 20 minutes |
1:43.2 | Every 20 minutes for the last |
1:45.3 | several months, you know several months they put them in there every 20 minutes |
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