simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety concerns so one former vice president amazon tim bray writes that the firing of whistleblowers isn't just a side effect but that it's evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture. is it really that big of a surprise i mean who can blame bay's oser amazon for treating their warehouse workers like easily replaceable cogs in the machine i mean after all we are living in a society that is right now right now as i speak seriously fighting for the right to sacrifice who we can elderly just so the gods of wall street can start making money off of all of our indentured servitude backs again. it's a good place to start watching the. on a city street you want to. see. this you always see. graves see this least systemic deception is so which. you'll. go to what you are. and i'm of the you know i'm. perfectly encapsulates the america in the united states experience right now because think about it we're all dependant on a service we all love using that you can find anything there while we choose as a society to kind of look the

simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety concerns so one former vice president amazon tim bray writes that the firing of whistleblowers isn't just a side effect but that it's evidence of a bane of toxicity running through the company culture is it really that big of a surprise i mean who can blame bay's oser amazon for treating their warehouse workers like easily replaceable cogs in the machine i mean after all we are living in a society that is right now right now as i speak seriously fighting for the right to sacrifice who we can elderly just so the gods of wall street can start making money off of all of our indentured servitude backs again. it's a good place to start watching the horrors. she will discover in a city street.

with fire corporate and warehouse workers who protested poor working conditions with amazon amid this pandemic tim braywas the v.p. of a division at the us and posted his reasons for quitting the company on his personal blog site so according to bray he quit because quote he was in dismay at amazon firing the whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of cold. so he went on to say that this decision was especially hard for him because he it was the best job ever that he'd ever had and overall he'd be losing about a $1000000.00 after vesting of company shares and pay is accounted for so he mentioned a number of names in this post and one of those making the most noise is our next guest chris smalls was one of those fired amazon workers at the warehouse he is now helping organize for the movement there so chris welcome to the show thank you for being with us 1st can you address me can you address tim braised bold move here and how you feel about it given that he named you personally as one of the people the reasons that he arrived at this decision. yeah absolutely. thank yo

. >>> a top engineer at amazon quit to protest the firing of whistle-blowers. tim brayho was also the vice president at the company said in his blog he too complained through the appropriate channels to no avail and amazon had no comment. and then using ultra violent lights to clean the buses and subways. researchers are still determining whether the light kills coronavirus. those are your tech bytes. have a great day. >>> a boy in utah hit the road for a long joyride. there was a 5-year-old in his parents car going about 30 miles per hour yesterday. he said he was angry at his mom because she did not buy him a lamborghini. he had $3 with him, driving to go and buy one here in california. >> the young man was there and sitting on the front edge of the seat so he could reach the pedal to keep the car stopped while i was standing there and i helped get the car into park. >> police say a sibling was supposed to watching him while his parents were away. and charges could be filed against the parents. >>> the family set up an obstacle course to have fun because they were all

that an engineer and senior vice—president at amazon made a million—dollar decision to quit hisjob over allegations of unsafe factory conditions. tim brayout working conditions. amazon says the employees were dismissed for violating internal practices. drone air corridors will be created for remote regions of the uk, according to the civil aviation authority, allowing for contactless deliveries of essential items. the relaxed flying rules will see designated zones where drone operators can fly out of the line of sight if they meet safety standards. nasa announced it's teaming up with tom cruise to make a film about the international space station, but wouldn't comment on speculation the actor may be headed into orbit. nasa says more details on the film will be revealed at the appropriate time. and finally, robots seem to be lending a helping hand all over the place these days, and grocery shopping is no exception. this robot called secondhands is funded by the eu. it has been designed by a consortium of universities and online grocery retailer 0cado. his purpose is providing a second pair of hands for workers and taking over more menial

. >> before i let you go, i want to get your thoughts about tim bray he is amazon web services vice presidento is resigning kind of in pro activity activity over the treatment of workers who protested the treatment of worksers under the covid-19 crisis also amazon's environment al record amazon, for its part, said people were fired for violating internal policies which is a difficult thing to independently check because, you know, it's employee records so how do we know, a, whether they did violate policies or other employees may have violated policies and didn't get fired? >> the interface newsletter wrote what we learned from facebook it wasn't regulators that got them with fines they could pay. it wasn't consumers on the market that got facebook that made it change it was employee activism when they were unable to attract and retain the top talent, that's when the company felt the pressure they couldn't innovate, build. we are seeing it with amazon at the warehouse level. now we are going to see it tim ray is a well-known respected figure in software he is coming out and saying this, there

now a vice president of amazon has resigned after the company fired whistle blowers who had raised concerns about covert 19 in its warehouses tim bray said that the dismissals were quote evidence of a date of toxicity running through the company culture in april hundreds of amazon employees in the united states went on strike over conditions. germany's highest court has ruled that the european central bank stimulus program partially contravenes the german law because neither the german government nor parliament signs off on the spending the ruling casts doubt on some key stimulus measures introduced to kick start the eurozone economy in 2015. german chancellor angela merkel has been holding talks with the country's powerful car industry the likes of volkswagen dion lerner and b.m.w. are calling on the government to help them through the coronavirus crisis plant closures and plummeting demand have hit the industry hard measures being looked at include a subsidy for car purchases and a scrappage scheme but environmentalist have spoken out against state support for diesel and petrol car. production. now without this agreement a new rou

. >> well, it's an interesting thing and actually in the ensuing week if you saw tim bray, a high-ranking amazonxecutive, wrote a devastating e-mail going after activists at amazon and congress called jeff bezos to talk about these issues around anti-trust and possible misstatements around the use of information to facilitate their business against third-party sellers. there's a lot going on i was not just talking about amazon but all the companies in that they've given us delivery or contact tracing or money from their giant fortunes and this is all well and good, these are all good things and i have no quarrel with these things, except for the press release they love to put out about it, the excessive press releases pat yourself on the back one more time for being rich it's really important i think to understand the same problems happening before the enormous amount of concentration with enormous resources and data reach, a.i., et cetera still exists and has been accelerated forward significantly due to it. >> is your betting that government will be a useful check on power for these guys? >> y

president at amazon has resigned to protest the company's recent firing of whistleblowers and warehouse workers who demonstrated against unsafe working conditions during the pandemic. tim bray described in a blog post what he called a "vein of toxicity running through the companany culture." he went on to write, "i choose neither to serveve nor drink tht poisonon." in washington state, king county reached a $2.25 million settlement and apologized monday for the fatal shooting of a black teenage boy by sheriff's deputies in 2017. mi'chance dunlap-gittens was 17 years old when he was killed during a failed sting operation that falsely targeted one of his friends. labor scholar and puerto rican independence activist jose soler has died. for over 20 years, he was director of the umass dartmouth labor education center and most recently co-head of the new bedford coalition to save our schools, which fought charter school expansion. soler emerged in the social justice world as a leader in the chicano rights organization the brown berets. he advocated for human rights and the independence of puerto rico in the 1970's. throughout his life, soler continued to work in the labor rights