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Speaker 1: There is trouble brewing at the Amazon Prime Washington Post.

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Speaker 1: It's big trouble. More than four hundred employees of the

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Speaker 1: drive By media giant have written to the boss, Jeff Bezos,

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Speaker 1: demanding that a fork over higher pay and better benefits.

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Speaker 1: A labor dispute has been raging inside the newspaper for

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Speaker 1: a year. It pits management against the union. It represents

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Speaker 1: over eight hundred editorial and bidness employees. Now the dispute

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Speaker 1: has gone public. According to the open letter, Bezos offered

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Speaker 1: the Amazon Prime Post workers a pitiful ten dollar a

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Speaker 1: week raise. They were insulted, especially since Bezos is one

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Speaker 1: of the richest men in the world. They claim that

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Speaker 1: digital subscriptions are way up, online traffic is way up,

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Speaker 1: and that advertising is meeting goals. So the employees want fairness,

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Speaker 1: more money, more family leave, better health benefits, more retirement income,

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Speaker 1: more job security. Want more of everything, Mr Bezos. Maybe

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Speaker 1: there's a way out of this mess. How about offering

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Speaker 1: your disgruntled staff at the Amazon Prime Washington Post a

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Speaker 1: bigger discount at Amazon Prime Whole Foods, maybe with a

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Speaker 1: minimum purchase. Of course, after all, it's only money, but

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Speaker 1: you never know what can satisfy angry liberals that won't

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Speaker 1: cost you very much. H