Amazon vs. unions

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🗓️ 8 April 2021

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Summary

What’s at stake in the biggest union battle this country has seen in decades. The future of community colleges. And, facing the prospect of “vaccine passports.”

Jay Greene reports on Amazon workers’ fight for a union in a warehouse in Alabama — and the drive’s potential to inspire other workers.

Normally during an economic downturn, higher-education reporters like Nick Anderson expect to see a rise in enrollment in community colleges. This time, that didn’t happen. Nick explains what that means for these schools and the students they serve, at a time when community colleges are being given increased political attention.

The scramble to develop vaccine passports — and the potential problems they pose — from health reporter Dan Diamond.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this Ben Tara is coming from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hi, Jeff.
0:11.0	This one's great.
0:12.0	Oprah.
0:13.0	Hi there.
0:14.0	How are you?
0:15.0	It's Lisa bonus coming from the post.
0:16.0	This is Post Reports.
0:17.0	I'm Routine Powers.
0:21.0	It's Thursday, April 8th.
0:25.0	Today, what's at stake if Amazon workers unionize?
0:29.0	The future of community colleges and the backlash against vaccine passports.
0:36.0	Last week, the counting of the ballots in a union election at an Amazon warehouse in
0:43.0	Besamerah, Alabama began.
0:49.0	Jay Green writes about technology for the post.
0:51.0	There was a seven week mail-in voting period for that union election that ended on March 29th.
0:58.0	So the ballots began to be counted.
1:01.0	This is probably the biggest union battle we've seen in this country in years.
1:07.0	Right now, Amazon's the second largest private employer in the country behind Walmart.
1:12.0	It's never had a union shop in the United States.
1:16.0	And so these nearly 6,000 workers at this warehouse will have the opportunity to be represented by the retail wholesale and department store union.
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