BONUS: Bernie Sanders Convinces AmazonTo Raise Their Minimum Wage
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 6 October 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Amazon provides a great service, but they treat their workers terribly. After Bernie Sanders threatened legislation to force them to provide a better living for the employees, Amazon announced that they were raising their minimum wage to 15/hr. Guest host Peter Ogburn gets the details from Rebecca Vallas, host of the Off Kilter podcast from the Center for American Progress.
They also talk about Initiative 77 in Washington, DC, which would change the dynamic of food/beverage workers and how they are paid.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bill Press show. |
| 0:13.1 | Yes, indeed. It is the Bill Press show. |
| 0:15.1 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:15.9 | My name is Peter Ogburn here for our weekend podcast where we try and bring you stuff that we, look, it's been a busy week. |
| 0:23.8 | There's been a lot of stuff going on. |
| 0:25.1 | We've been talking a lot of Brett Kavanaugh, but we haven't had a chance to really dig into all the stories that we wanted to get into. |
| 0:32.7 | And one of them, I want to talk about with our good friend. |
| 0:35.9 | She is the vice president for poverty to prosperity program at the Center for American Progress. She is also the host of the wonderful podcast off kilter. You know her. You love her. She's Rebecca Valas. Hi, Rebecca. How are you? Hey, Peter. Good to see you. It's good to see you. So we are taping this on a Friday of a very, very busy, busy |
| 0:56.5 | news week. It's been lots of Brett Kavanaugh stuff. We've talked a lot about Brett Kavanaugh. |
| 1:00.7 | Few things going on this week. A couple things going on. A couple things going on. But one of the |
| 1:05.1 | things that I wanted to talk about that I feel very strongly about, and as soon as I read the story, |
| 1:10.2 | literally you were the first name that I thought of, about. And as soon as I read this story, literally you were the first |
| 1:11.0 | name that I thought of is the story of Amazon. Because we've talked for a while now, for a couple of |
| 1:18.9 | weeks anyway, Bernie Sanders has been sort of threatening Amazon and saying, you've got to pay |
| 1:25.0 | your workers a living wage. |
| 1:31.0 | That could mean, you know, the $15 minimum wage. |
| 1:33.4 | That can mean a lot of different things, but you've got to treat your workers better or else we're coming for you. |
| 1:36.8 | Well, this week, Amazon said, okay, crap. |
| 1:40.4 | Well, we should probably change this. |
| 1:43.2 | They announced that they are going to implement the |
| 1:45.9 | $15 minimum wage. Good news. It's really good news. And I have to say, Peter, in a time where it feels |
| 1:53.2 | like we don't get a lot of good news, this is one to really take and savor for a minute. It's a huge |
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