One thing that is very clear is that Amazon will do anything in its power and pay any amount of money to keep unions out of its warehouses.

Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is Lauren Kaori Gurley.

Lauren is a labor reporter at Motherboard, which is part of Vice, where she spends a lot of time covering how gig workers, Amazon warehouse workers, and other

tech workers are fighting for their rights. On this week's episode, we react to the news that Jeff

Bezos is stepping down as CEO to become the executive chair of Amazon and what that means

for workers at the company who have spent so many years dealing with the exploitative working

conditions that he's overseen.

Amazon workers have reported having to skip bathroom breaks and being under constant surveillance.

Reports like the one by Will Evans, who came on the podcast a few months ago, show that

injuries at Amazon are more than double the industry average and even

higher in warehouses where it's using its Kiva robot system. Jeff Bezos built a sprawling

empire, a company that has its hands in many different sectors of the economy and has become

one of the key tech monopolies of the modern times. And while Amazon has brought great wealth

to Bezos himself and to many Amazon shareholders, that wealth was built on the back of workers

who do not see the same kind of benefits, but rather are treated in this really dehumanizing

way. Even as Bezos steps aside, it's unlikely that those things are going

to change anytime soon. Tech Won't Save Us is part of the Harbinger Media Network, a group of

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