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Amazon Studios   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. It’s not yet Memorial Day but cable networks and streamers are already setting up their summer scripted series premieres, in part to get them out the door before the Summer Olympics in late July, a noticeably lighter month for premieres. On Friday Amazon’s Prime Video debuts “The Underground Railroad,” adapted from the 2016 Colson Whitehead novel. The premiere episode of the series depicts brutal torture – this is not an easy watch – as slave Co...

Getty Images / WIRED Andreas Gangl joined Amazon in 2009 aged 36, to work at one of the company’s cavernous fulfilment centres in Bad Hersfeld, a small spa town in central Germany. At first the job was pretty good: pay was comparable to other manual roles, and a day’s workload, printed out on paper, consisted mostly of packaging books and CDs. In 2013 Bad Hersfeld became the first Amazon fulfilment centre in Germany to unionise. Two years later, led by Gangl’s coworker Christian Krähling, it was the founding place of Amazon Workers International (AWI), an organisation that ...

By JOSEPH PISANI