For Amazon, the coronavirus has largely been a boon. Sales are up. So is the company's

share price, which has grown by more than 60% since early March.

But the pandemic has also put a spotlight on how the company treats its employees,

particularly those who work in its warehouses.

Is Amazon doing enough to keep these employees safe from the virus

or from workplace injuries?

Is it paying them enough?

And should Amazon's workers form a union? The company has

emphatically opposed union activism before and it still does so, at least

according to a memo which describes a system that allows Amazon to track the threat of

union activity in its facilities around the world.

Jason Del Rey, a senior correspondent here at Recode, recently got a hold of that memo and he's here to talk about it.

Hey, Jason.

Hey, Teddy.

So tell me about this.

Where does the memo come from?

What does it say?

So the memo, which I got a look at and also my colleague, Shirin Ghaffari. It's dated February of 2020 and it talks

about plans to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in a new software system that would allow the company,

its HR and security teams, to better analyze and visualize a whole host of threats to the company and its employees around the globe.

There are many types of threats listed in the memo that are related to things that don't have to do with unionization.

So, you know, keeping track of dangerous weather events

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