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When they divorced a couple years ago, that meant she was worth about 36 billion dollars. but now owning 4% of amazons top means that shes worth not 36 billion dollars but more like 60 billion dollars. and thats even with giving away eight billion dollars in a year, right? giving way eight billion dollars as fast as she can. amazon is worth so much as a company. giving away billions of dollars a year doesnt affect the fact that her network still just keeps going up and its not like she is jeff b...

There were breakdowns, etc. she had to pause for a few minutes. at the end of the day she was told that she was excluded out. that kind of practice has created a tremendous amount of fear among amazon workers. people watching tonight we have heard the idea that amazon workers can take bathroom breaks. that is not literally true but it represents the apprehension that this company creates its workers. actually, over the last couple of weeks we asked amazons many questions, we asked them for a lot...

York city. basically its the only full milk foment center that amazon has for the largest city in the country. its huge, its the size of 15 football fields. again the only amazon fulfilments center for the whole new york city area. reporters from the new york times spent months talking to employees who work inside that facility. and today, they published what they found. this is the headline. the amazon that customers dont see. the times interviewed nearly 200 current and former amazon employees...

When covid hit new york last spring. he and his wife talked about weather should stay home from work to avoid getting covid but theyre trying to buy a house, he needed the income, they kept going to work. this is how the times tells the rest. when mr. castillo arrived to work at jfk on march 24th, he heard the warehouse had its first positive covid case. he messaged his boss replied yes, i forgot to bring that up. and out of that everyone who worked with the employee had been notified. mr. casti...

A pulitzer prize winner for the reporting on the me too movement and the abuses of harvey weinstein. joe cantor its very nice for you to make time for us to be with us tonight. why amazon, why did you pick amazon as the subject for this investigation? >> i think the ultimate question of this investigation is how can amazon be so precise and sophisticated with packages and yet treat people so differently. for example at amazon you can get a job just for applying for a leave, just for applying for...

Employees. where the ones, again, make the company its money. they are also not sticking around and amazon for the long haul, which is planned. that turnover is a structural problem at amazon. its by design, according to that same senior hr employee. jeff bezos from the beginning didnt want hourly workers that were gonna stick around for any amount of time. bezos saw a, quote, large disgruntled workforce as a threat. the amazon official told the times that amazons data showed most employees beca...

Issue that has affected other employees as well. mr. castillo of course was not the only employee at jfk eight to come down with covid. by may, another one of his coworkers had died of covid. but look at what the times is now reporting. quote, well amazon said publicly that it was just puzzling confirmed cases to health officials, new york city records show no reported cases from the amazon facility until november. the times notes that amazon and city officials dispute what happened. but believe...

Of that concentrated wealth is that they have a huge massive army of workers who handle all of those packages. theyre the ones who make amazon all the money, along with the companys bottom line that work and ballooned last year. last year between july and october, amazon hired 350,000 new employees. thats more people than live in the entire city of st. louis, missouri. they added 350,000 new workers just from july to october. right now, amazon is the second largest private employer in the united...

Basically it. and so now hes doing it. hes funding a space tourism company and hes headed to space next month himself. the wealth that amazon, that company has generated, its almost impossible to wrap your head around. especially over the past year because of the pandemic, amazon which was already unimaginably gigantic saw a huge upsurge in business last year. everybody was staying home, everyone was staying out of stores. everyone is ordering everything online. if you take everything that amazo...

Its particularly problematic if youre not a white pride person. according to internal records obtained by the times, black employees at jfk or 50% more likely to be fired than their white coworkers. more than 60% of the workers at the jfk warehouse are black or latino, but 70% of the people of company put in management positions there were white or asian. amazon said i couldnt confirm that data without nor more specifics about its source. one former hr vice president at amazon who spoke to the t...