thing called courage at least that's according to top engineer and now former amazon vice president tim brady the washington post reports that he was giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top $1000000.00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that is comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the little things like oh workers' safety climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact the guardian is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests or vocally advocated for improvements to.

corporate and warehouse workers who protested poor working conditions with amazon amid this pandemic tim bradywas the v.p. of a division at 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 what was the blowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of cold night team 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 paid. he 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 absolut

thing called courage at least that's according to top engineer and now former amazon vice president tim brady the washington post reports that he was giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top $1000000.00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that's comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the little things like oh workers' safety climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact the guardian is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests or vocally advocated for improvements to worker safety in conditions have been fired during the pandemic in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p.r. executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the world's richest man jeff bezos plan to publicly character assassinate fired warehouse employee christian smalls for 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 ju

thing called courage at least that's according to top engineer and now former amazon vice president tim brady the washington post reports that he was giving up his.

thing called courage at least that's according to top engineer and now former amazon vice president tim brady the washington post reports that he was giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top $1000000.00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that is comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistle blower concerns well you know the little things like oh workers' safety climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact the guardian is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests or vocally advocated for improvements to worker safety and condition. have been fired during the penn demick in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p.r. executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the world's richest man jeff bezos plan to publicly character assassinate of fired warehouse employee christian smalls were simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety concerns so one former vice president amazon tim bray writes that the firing of whistleblower

thing called courage at least that's according to top engineer and now former amazon vice president tim bradythe washington post reports that he was giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top $1000000.00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that is comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the little things like oh workers' safety climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact.

thing called courage at least that's according to top engineer and now former amazon vice president tim brady.

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