England are set to face Wales in the second round of the Six Nations. After a shaky 24-27 victory against Italy, Steve Borthwick's squad are ready for their next challenge.
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Addie Morfoot Contributor In “Union,” documentary filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing follow the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), a group of current and former Amazon workers as they attempt to unionize Amazon employees working at a facility in Staten Island, N.Y. The directing duo chronicles just how excruciatingly hard it is to form a workers’ union in America — especially at Amazon.
The 102-minute doc captures ALU members, who feel disenfranchised and powerless, as they try to build support for their movement while facing the unlimited resources and influence of a corporate giant. From offering free pizza and cannabis to making calls to all 8,000 Amazon employees working at the Staten Island facility, the film intimately documents ALU’s fierce dedication to making a change.
Variety spoke to Story and Maing ahead of the premiere of “Union” on Sunday. In the film an ALU member records a meeting that takes place within the Staten Island facility. Was it your idea to have an ALU member go in and get that footage? Maing: The videos that you see in the film that are inside [the Amazon facility] were all worker-organizer produced films that were actually part of the work that they were doing to document the conditions of both their workplace as well as the the violations against labor law that did actually permit them to talk about the [ALU].
That was something that they wanted to absolutely have documentation of to prove that this was not a loving, level playing field. Amazon describes itself as a company that “strives to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” This doc makes it clear that their efforts are clearly not working. Do you think Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
.England are set to face Wales in the second round of the Six Nations. After a shaky 24-27 victory against Italy, Steve Borthwick's squad are ready for their next challenge.
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Jeff Bezos receives praise on social media for dating Lauren Sánchez instead of a woman 20 or 30 years younger than him. While celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio are known for dating younger women, Bezos is being applauded for dating someone who might have similar interests and upbringing. A recent Instagram post of the couple on The Shade Room account received hundreds of positive reactions, highlighting how the Amazon founder found in Lauren, a perfect companion.“He is 60.
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