Amazon workers unionize.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize earlier this month, the first time a successful organizing effort has taken place at one of the largest companies in America. Plus, a question about why people hate taxes.
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| 0:40.9 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to The Tangle Podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:04.6 | I am your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about the Amazon unionization. |
| 1:10.8 | I actually did a little poll on |
| 1:12.3 | Twitter to see if readers had a preference about what we covered today and Amazon won out. So |
| 1:18.3 | I ran with it, even though I know Twitter is a little bit of a biased space. But I think this is a super |
| 1:23.4 | important story. So I'm excited to dive in. Before we jump in, though, we'll start off with our |
| 1:28.5 | quick hits for the day. |
| 1:37.3 | First up, and this is a story pretty close to home here. Five people were shot, and a few unexploded devices were found at a |
| 1:47.0 | Brooklyn, New York City train station this morning in Sunset Park. I am recording this in Brooklyn, |
| 1:53.2 | New York. You know, we're kind of all over the place, but I'm here today in the office. And, |
| 1:59.0 | yeah, just scary, sending love and thoughts to friends and family and everybody in the area and the city. |
| 2:06.5 | I know we have a lot of listeners from the New York region. |
| 2:09.8 | So I hope you're all safe and sound. |
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