Warehouse Workers Bring Amazon To The Table
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the latest round of “Tech CEO Goes to Washington.” On Tuesday morning, that CEO was Google’s Sundar Pichai, who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee and was asked about data privacy, location tracking, Google’s plans in China, and of course, Republicans’ favorite tech topic: conservative bias. We’ll talk about what we learned from this hearing as well as what we wish Congress might’ve asked the Google CEO.
Then April speaks with two people who have been working to organize workers in Amazon fulfilment centers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One is a founder with Awood, Nimo Omar. She’s been organizing with the primarily East African communities that work in the Amazon warehouses on a campaign to collectively advocate for better working conditions.
We’ll also be joined by a worker at one of those Amazon fulfillment centers in the Minneapolis area, WIlliam Stolz. We’ll ask him about his job at the warehouse and why he’s joining his fellow workers in organizing for change for change at the fulfillment centers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, a show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Will O'Reynes. |
| 0:15.3 | And I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to If Then. We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 11th. |
| 0:38.9 | On today's show, we'll talk about the latest round of Tech CEO goes to Washington. On Tuesday morning, that CEO was Google's Sundar Pichai, who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee, was asked about data privacy, location tracking, Google's plans |
| 0:44.1 | in China, and of course, Republicans' favorite tech topic, conservative bias. We'll talk about what |
| 0:49.9 | we learned from the hearing and what we wish Congress might have asked the tech CEO instead. |
| 0:54.9 | Then we'll be speaking with two people who have been working to organize amongst workers in Amazon |
| 0:59.0 | fulfillment centers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One is a founder with Awud, Nimo Omar. She's |
| 1:04.3 | been working with the primarily East African communities that work in the Amazon warehouses there |
| 1:09.2 | on a campaign to collectively advocate for |
| 1:11.3 | better working conditions. We'll also be joined by a worker at one of those fulfillment centers in the |
| 1:16.0 | Minneapolis area, William Stolz. We'll ask him about his job at the warehouse and why he's |
| 1:21.1 | joining his fellow workers in organizing for change. And as always, we'll end with Don't Close My Tabs, |
| 1:26.0 | a couple of the best things we saw online this week. That's all coming up on today's if then. All always, we'll end with Don't Close My Tabs, a couple of the best things we saw online this week. |
| 1:28.3 | That's all coming up on today's If Then. |
| 1:31.0 | All right, we want to start this week with a call out to our listeners. |
| 1:34.0 | We want to hear from you. |
| 1:35.3 | Broadly, we're curious about how technology has impacted your life this year. |
| 1:38.8 | So we have a couple specific questions. |
| 1:40.7 | If you feel so moved, we'd be interested in hearing your answers. |
| 1:43.2 | You can email us a voice memo of your response. |
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