How Unions Beat Amazon with Stephen Maing and Brett Story

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Comedy

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Amazon workers are on strike! It’s no shock that employees are pushing back against the invasive, abusive, and grueling practices of one of the world’s largest corporations. What is surprising, though, is that they managed to form a union at all. Stephen Maing and Brett Story’s astonishing new documentary Union tells the inspiring story of how workers fought against all odds to claim victory over the corporate giant. This week, Adam talks with Stephen and Brett about the uphill battles these workers faced against Amazon—and the challenges they now face trying to find a distributor in Hollywood brave enough to release the film.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgum podcast.
0:05.3	Lights are going up, snow is falling down, there's a feeling of goodwill around town,
0:13.8	it could only mean one thing.
0:18.4	McRib is here.
0:20.1	People throwing parties
0:21.5	ugly sweaters everywhere
0:23.4	Stockings hung up by the chimney with care
0:27.3	It could only mean one thing
0:31.5	McRibb is here
0:33.1	At participating McDonald's for a limited time
0:35.5	I don't know the truth
0:37.3	I don't know the. I don't know the truth.
0:39.9	I don't know the way.
0:42.6	I don't know what to think.
0:45.4	I don't know what to say.
0:48.2	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:50.8	That's okay.
0:53.8	I don't know anything. Hey there, welcome to Factually. I'm Adam Conover. Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.
1:00.6	You know, there is a seismic event happening in American labor right now, because right now, as I speak,
1:06.5	thousands of Amazon warehouse workers are on strike. And they are on strike because Amazon refuses to negotiate with them over anything at all.
1:15.5	They are not even showing up at the negotiating table.
1:18.3	So those workers are for the first time ever taken to the streets, refusing to work,
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