The latest unionization push at Amazon
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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This week, another 1,000 Amazon workers decided to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at an air freight operation in San Bernardino, California. But Amazon does not readily come to the bargaining table and works hard to resist collective bargaining. We hear the latest. Also on this morning’s show: why there suddenly seems to be fewer shopping baskets at supermarkets and how teens are spending their time online these days.
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| 0:00.0 | It's true. Data show some teens hardly ever look up from their screens. I'm David Brancaccio. A new study shows almost half of U.S. teens in a Pew Research Center survey say their online keywords almost constantly. The platforms they use vary, but YouTube and TikTok lock the gaze the most. |
| 0:22.2 | Here's Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genser. |
| 0:24.6 | Nine in ten teens told Pew they use YouTube. About 60% are on TikTok and Instagram. |
| 0:31.1 | Slightly more than half use Snapchat with about a third on Facebook. |
| 0:35.3 | Pew says only 17% of the teens they surveyed used X. |
| 0:39.6 | More girls say they're on TikTok almost constantly. |
| 0:42.6 | Boys gravitate to YouTube. |
| 0:44.5 | Black and Hispanic teens are more likely than whites |
| 0:47.1 | to say they constantly use YouTube or Instagram. |
| 0:50.6 | 10 years ago, 24% of teens said they were online almost constantly, now nearly half are, according to Pew, with almost all teens using the internet every day. |
| 1:01.8 | A 2023 Pew survey found a majority of American adults support limits for minors on social media like age verification or requiring parental consent for teens to create |
| 1:13.2 | social media accounts. I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace. |
| 1:18.3 | It's one thing for workers to go union and something very different to get the company to bargain |
| 1:23.1 | with that union. This week, more than a thousand Amazon workers opted to join the Teamsters Union. |
| 1:29.0 | It's an air freight operation in San Bernardino, California. But Amazon does not readily come |
| 1:33.6 | to the bargaining table and works hard to resist collective bargaining. Here's Marketplace's Kaylee Wals. |
| 1:39.6 | This news is bigger than just one more Amazon warehouse fighting back. |
| 1:43.7 | Because this is the largest |
| 1:45.6 | air hub facility on the West Coast. Kent Wong teaches at UCLA's Labor Center. So the fact that |
| 1:51.9 | this organizing is taking place at this facility is a big deal. And the fact that it's Amazon is a big |
| 1:58.4 | deal. Kate Bronfenbrenner teaches at Cornell University's |
| 2:01.4 | School of Industrial and Labor Relations and says giant companies that resist unions have |
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