As a single mother, a Muslim, and a Somali-American worker living in Minnesota, Khali Jama has always had to fight for the life she, her family, and her fellow workers deserve. And earlier this year, after bringing that fight to the Minnesota state legislature, Khali and her coworkers achieved a major victory. “On May 16,” Lisa Kwon reports in PRISM, “Minnesota lawmakers passed the nation’s strongest Amazon warehouse worker protection legislation with the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which ensures that workers can take breaks during the workday and have access to relevant quota and performance standards and data on how fast they’re working. The bill’s passage marks a significant victory for migrant workers—especially Minnesota’s Somali immigrant population, of which the state has the largest in the country. For Khali Jama, a former worker in Amazon’s fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, the new bill offers reprieve and protections that she worked to mobilize. As a Somali and a Muslim, Jama said the Warehouse Worker Protection Act ensures some equity in Minnesota’s facilities.” In this episode of Working People, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez talks with Jama about moving to the midwest as a child, about her path to working in healthcare and at Amazon, and about the incredible story of how Khali, her coworkers, and the team at the Awood Center, which organizes in Minnesota’s East African communities, fought to pass the Warehouse Worker Protection Act.
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This woman is amazing. I work at Walmart. Much of what she said is also occurring there.
Really get on with it. You are endangering people with ADHD.
fantastic interview
You talk FAR too long. You have good clips and important issues to discuss, but so much of your discussion is such repetitive filler that the audience leaves or fast forwards. Also your reporter on scene adds nothing, while bouncing back and forth, over-gesturing, and pretending to be breathless with urgency.
Where's the link to The Nation article??
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Labor produces value it does not produce wealth. Wealth comes from Nature.
Nature makes an industry not the other way around.
Industries in America produce values and the value they produce is expressed in prices.
And you cannot have prices on things of use without having buyers.
It is wrong to think labor produces wealth.
Labor produces value and less of it given the rate of technological advances.
In every product American labor makes in all industries the value part of the product is less and less.
Diminishing value is shown in rising prices. The double action is Value goes down and prices go up.
The split between value and price shows up when in society corporations make more value by shoving people out of jobs.
Tech advances makes it cheaper to lose them than to use them.
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It.tskes.grassrot.level organization to hold companies like Amazon, Wall Mart. Accountable. This has been the struggle of workers for centuries, we have to fight for labor rights
Maximillian, thank you for including this religiously conservative woman in your program! I'm impressed that she's willing to boycott Target Stores (time index 1:06 to 1:08:30– ish) for their sexually grooming kids back in June.
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This podcast is dedicated to all those people who said oh well what can you do you can't fight City Hall.
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The struggle of immigrants strengthen them.
I would go out of my way to smash there algorithms ,
If your not in a union your no better than a slave,thats what an old guy in the UK told me years ago when i started work in the UK and ever since i,d never have worked for any non union company.and its stood me well.
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This is why democrats are bringing the people here haâ€â€ cheep labor and looking like slavery all over again🤮☠ï¸ðŸ¤¯ this people are being treated very bad in Nyc they are living in the streets 💔👎ðŸ¾