The Union Fight At Amazon, Plus 'Your Korean Dad'

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🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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An Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, has become ground zero in a battle that could change Amazon as we know it. Sam chats with a worker about his experience, and labor reporter and organizer Kim Kelly talks about what the fight for unionization in Amazon's warehouses means for the future of workers' rights. Plus, Sam talks to Nick Cho, known as Your Korean Dad on TikTok, about becoming the internet's favorite dad.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty.
0:03.6	This week, Amazon and the fight to unionize.
0:08.0	All right, let's start the show.
0:11.2	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute
0:12.9	from NPR.
0:13.9	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:15.8	So we're about a year into pandemic life.
0:18.6	And it feels like one company has become
0:20.7	a bigger part of our lives than we could have ever imagined
0:24.0	a year ago.
0:25.5	Amazon.
0:26.8	The shipping giant has helped a lot of people
0:29.5	deal with not being able to go out and shop.
0:31.8	You can see it everywhere.
0:33.0	The Amazon package is always on your neighbor's doorsteps
0:36.1	or your doorsteps.
0:37.7	The Amazon vans and trucks crisscrossing your neighborhoods.
0:41.6	It's been a really good time for the company.
0:43.6	Amazon actually saw its biggest profits ever in 2020.
0:47.9	But as easy as Amazon makes it for consumers these days,
0:51.8	the work to get that stuff to all of us, it can be hard.
0:54.9	Many of these pandemic purchases start off
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