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TBD | Risking Your Life for $8.71

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week, workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, and Instacart have announced mass strikes across the country. Though demand for these services is high, pay and protection is low. What exactly do we owe to the delivery workers at the front lines of the pandemic? And with these companies hiring in record numbers, can the strikes succeed? Guests: Heidi Carrico, founding member of the Gig Workers Collective, and Johana Bhuiyan, tech accountability reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

At three business, we think you should be paying less and getting more.

0:03.8

With our boundless business offer, the more sims you buy, the more you save.

0:08.3

With up to 20 sims for only £10 a month each.

0:11.3

That means unlimited calls, texts and data for the whole team

0:15.0

without any data caps or limits.

0:17.5

That really is more for less.

0:19.9

Search three business or visit us in store.

0:22.5

Unlimited in the UK.

0:23.7

£10 when you buy 10 or more sims, 24 month plan,

0:26.2

excludes 20% VAT.

0:27.6

Turns apply, see three.co.uk slash turns.

0:34.4

Heidi Karako is a shopper for Instacart.

0:37.9

If you're not familiar with it, Instacart is a company that allows users to send someone else

0:42.9

to the grocery store to do their shopping for them.

0:46.0

Right now, for obvious reasons, it's really popular.

0:49.8

And Heidi is scared.

0:52.4

What's it like working as an Instacart worker right now?

0:57.6

Terrifying.

1:00.4

It's gotten a little bit better because fewer people are in the stores,

1:03.7

but there's still whole families going out shopping right now,

1:06.3

treating this like it's vacation time.

1:09.6

I worried about going out and picking something up and bringing it home to my family.

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