Giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top 1000000. 00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company thats 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 worlds 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 isnt just a side effect but that its evidence of a
Giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top 1000000. 00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company thats 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 worlds 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 isnt just a side effect but that its evidence of a
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A coaster king. The city street scene needs. Greetings and salutations since the start of the pandemic amazon dot com has quickly become one of the most essential tools of survival during these bizarre and brutal stay at all times from groceries to face masks the board games you can damn near find anything you may need or desire to help you survive and get through living in these sequester and this sequester era. But apparently one thing not available to order of the on line giant is workers rights and a little thing called courage at least thats 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 thats 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
Higher. The nasdaq is up. 7 . Quite a turnaround from earlier this morning. 33. S p 500 at 29 the 10 year backup of 70 basis points. 24. 44. L trading at lets get a deeper dive into the Market Action with taylor riggs. Taylor mostly and improving picture across the screen. We were in much worse territory at least on the russell 2000, nasdaq, so we are starting to improve, go into positive territory. 2000 and raising a lot of those gains but still off. 1 . Take a look at the nasdaq biotech sector. Big outperforming today, up 3. 5 . Biotech is leading the way in thisbiotech is leading the way n this pandemic, in terms of finding a treatment and vaccine, so you are seeing that outperform. Gilead, their remdesivir product is hitting hospitals to treat covid patients. The u. S. Will get about less than half of the 1. 5 million vials being given out in the next week or so. Taking a look at the yield picture, you have a lot of treasury supplies coming online. Treasuries rising and you are get