Monday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Amazon workers will be in office 5 days a week starting in January, there are still hundreds of open seats in the Seattle Preschool Program which offers sliding scale tuition, and cars can’t take the Spokane Street bridge to West Seattle, but bikes and pedestrians can. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Patricia Murphy.
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| 0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. |
| 0:01.8 | It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
| 0:06.4 | The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. |
| 0:10.7 | Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news. |
| 0:17.5 | We get behind the headlines. |
| 0:19.4 | We get to the truth. |
| 0:22.8 | Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. |
| 0:27.1 | Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Patricia Murphy with today's |
| 0:32.7 | top stories. It's Monday, September 16th. |
| 0:43.3 | Starting in January, Amazon corporate employees are moving to a full five-day week in the office. |
| 0:48.1 | That's up from the May 2020-3 requirement of just three in-office days. |
| 0:56.0 | The news comes via memo from CEO Andy Jassy, who says it's intended to strengthen the workplace culture and boost team connection. Boeing announced possible furloughs and other cost-cutting measures as machinists |
| 1:01.8 | continue to walk the picket line. On Friday, approximately 33,000 workers walked off the job after |
| 1:08.0 | rejecting a new contract offer. Richard Abelafia is the managing director of the consulting firm Aerodynamic Advisory. |
| 1:15.5 | He told KUOW's sound side that the company's cost-cutting moves are somewhere between understandable and draconian. |
| 1:22.2 | They're obviously under the gun with a great revenue machine that is, you know, jetliner production shut off. |
| 1:27.6 | In addition, for the weekend, you had two of the premier credit agencies talk about |
| 1:32.6 | downgrading their debt rating. So I think they're quite mindful of that as well as the |
| 1:36.8 | cutoff of revenue from Jetliner production. |
| 1:39.4 | The machinists demand higher wages and the restoration of pensions lost in previous negotiations. Boeing says |
| 1:46.0 | some cost-cutting moves will go into effect immediately, including a hiring freeze, limits on travel, |
| 1:52.0 | and parts purchasing reductions. If you've never eaten, danced, or been to any number of community |
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