OA584: Amazon Workers Unionize!
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🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Amazon workers in Staten Island overcame extensive union busting efforts and won a vote to unionize! This is great news, and we can only hope it has a snowball effect. Listen as Andrew breaks down the journey, the conditions that led to the effort and the disgusting lengths Amazon went to to punish the employees who started organizing. In the A segment, we get a delightful little Alex Jones update. He finally showed up for a deposition!
Links: Docket, Jones moves to purge contempt, small wrinkle, NLRB order on bogus Amazon election, Smalls fired, Exhibit 13, Amazon racist comments, 29 US Code § 157 - Right of employees as to organization, 29 US Code § 158 - Unfair labor practices
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| 0:00.0 | The Magna Carter. Carter, meaning quite literally charter, a magna, meaning Japanese animation. |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, come on! A good lawyer couldn't win this case! |
| 0:23.2 | There's this vampire larvae also have a local vampire here on the council this evening, Colin Covenson. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello! |
| 0:32.4 | I was a possible that you've never heard about James Simpson. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, as I explained, I just awoke from a 22-year coma and was driven directly from the hospital to this courthouse. |
| 0:45.2 | You had no idea what to report meant, and when I asked you to explain to six the amendment, you pled the fifth. |
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| 1:17.3 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 584. I'm Thomas. That's Andrew. |
| 1:22.3 | How you doing? Well, I was fantastic, and then we had breaking news 10 minutes before the show that |
| 1:29.0 | elevated me into a real sad breaking news. Super tragic. No, it's good breaking news, everybody. |
| 1:35.0 | Psych got you with that one. Yeah, good news. As we have been saying, all along, |
| 1:40.8 | yeah, Judge Katenji Brown-Jackson, confirmed by the Senate 5347, which is that's 100 to 0 by |
| 1:48.4 | ordinary standards. Yeah, that is legitimately bipartisan and bringing on Mitt Romney as a vote. |
| 1:56.9 | That was a testament to how well her testimony went. I legitimately think that Romney could have |
| 2:03.2 | gone either way and that the attacks on her were just so embarrassingly facile and stupid. |
| 2:08.9 | You know, you saw, the Republicans lining up to give their bizarre pretextual reasons |
| 2:14.5 | for voting against somebody that they already voted against. Right. It was heard now. Yeah, |
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