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🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Right now, many people are sitting indoors quarantined from the world, stocked up on supplies and watching way too much Netflix. Some might even feel the impulse to order goods to their doorstep. So they fire up their Amazon Prime accounts and order some quarantine trinkets.
Before this plague happened that whole process seemed completely normal. But behind that push of a button an entire workforce of Amazon workers, some with no health insurance or a union protecting their employment, are struggling through their orders knowing the virus is either in their fulfillment centers or is about to be. In fact, it already happened in New York City at one of Amazon’s Queen’s based warehouses: A worker fell ill with COVID-19, employees were sent out of the premises, the factory was then sprayed, and three hours later it was business as usual.
This week we’re talking to Lauren Kaori Gurley of Motherboard to discuss how the workers of Amazon, headed by the single richest man in the entire world, are faring during this very trying time.
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0:00.0 | Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.7 | It's a unit system. |
0:13.1 | I know this. |
0:15.1 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:17.3 | It tells her everything. |
0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.8 | Eagle one. |
0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
0:24.8 | Right now, many of us are sitting indoors quarantined from the world, stocked up on supplies |
0:29.7 | and watching way too much Netflix. |
0:32.1 | You might even feel the impulse to order goods to your doorstep, so you fire up your |
0:36.1 | Amazon account and order some quarantine |
0:38.4 | trinkets. Amazon Prime is a fantastic service with more than 100 million members worldwide. |
0:45.3 | Most people use it to take advantage of the free two-day shipping, but the benefits don't end there. |
0:51.0 | I get it. It's easy, and before this plague, it seemed completely normal. But behind that |
0:56.3 | push of a button, an entire workforce of Amazon workers, some with no health insurance or union |
1:01.6 | protecting their employment, are struggling through their orders, knowing the virus is either |
1:06.3 | in their fulfillment center or it's coming. In fact, it already happened miles from me in New York City. |
1:12.6 | First though, today in New York's Catherine Craig's live outside an Amazon warehouse |
1:16.6 | in Woodside Queens where we've learned a worker there, Kat has tested positive. |
1:21.6 | This week we're talking to Lauren Gurley of Motherboard to discuss how the workers of Amazon, |
1:26.6 | headed by the single |
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