Mini Show #16: Amazon Workers, Sarah Silverman, Dollar General, Teachers, and More!
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
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4.3 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:28.9 | Joining us now for our weekly partnership segment with DailyPoster is the founder of DailyPoster |
| 0:34.6 | himself, the one and only David Surat. A great to see you, David. |
| 0:36.9 | Good to see you. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:39.5 | So we've been tracking on the show here, damage from those deadly tornadoes, the fact that |
| 0:44.9 | some of the worst damages were sustained at people's workplaces, a candle factory, and |
| 0:49.1 | mayfield Kentucky where workers were not allowed to leave hours before when they wanted |
| 0:53.1 | to. And also at an Amazon Distribution Center in Illinois where we have looked at the final |
| 0:59.8 | text of a driver there who wanted to leave, Amazon wouldn't let him go and ultimately |
| 1:04.7 | it cost him his life. Talk to us about what you uncovered here in terms of Amazon, lobbyists |
| 1:12.3 | and the rights that workers have in their workplaces. |
| 1:15.6 | So in Illinois in the months before this disaster, there was legislation in the Democratic |
| 1:22.8 | Control Legislature to change Illinois's laws to say that an employer has to have a just |
| 1:28.6 | cause in order to terminate a worker. |
| 1:32.1 | Right now almost every state in the country is what's known as at will employment. An employer |
| 1:36.8 | can fire you for basically almost any reason other than reasons covered in the civil rights |
| 1:42.5 | laws. But that means if your employer doesn't like the, let's say, the color of your tie, |
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