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Roma manual was the mayor of chicago and also the white house chief of staff. At amazon they will be interviewed by nikki raleigh who works for the wall street journal. Please welcome them. Welcome beth, welcome ron, will have a couple of lets bring everybody ram up to speed. The 700 Million Dollars that amazon plans to spend to give us a really quick overview and how thats gonna. Work well youve got the basic facts, right 100,000 workers over the next six years, we are really excited about, this and its actually an abrogation of a whole series of upscaling programs. Things starting with our Fulfillment Center workers, so our frontline workers we will give them a career choice, where we prepay before they even start their classes, 95 of to wish in and books for up to three 80,000 a year, so they can learn skills, and feels like medical technology, bookkeeping, other tech ....
Staff. Beths colletti is the Senior Vice President for worldwide Human Resources at amazon. They are going to be interviewed by nikki waller from the wall street journal. Please welcome them. [applause] we are going to do some case studies, and we have a short amount of time. Quickly, lets bring everybody up to speed. First, beth, everybody here caught the headlines about the 7 million amazon plans to spend to upscale workers. To us a quick overview. Facts,ou got the basic 700 million, 100,000 workers over the next six years. Aggregation of a series of different upscaling programs, starting with Fulfillment Center workers. Our frontline workers where we give them a program where they prepay even before they start their classes, 90 of tuition and books so that they can learn skills in things like medical thing ....
There is but also the most volatile they went to lithium. Which is why here is our danger look so step down to secure plane president just before the fire started a new company to make lithium ion batteries for business jets. Bugs i was a true believer in the technology. Then he began testing 23. 3 m. Series. Battery back. To even the latest industry guidelines going so far as to fire bullets into batteries to see if they could be made safe military applications. You know you could run the test that you feel that you need to meet the requirements. But. You also need to have a conscience thats going to tell you i want to do the extreme. In the end testing with a conscience couldnt make the batteries meet the requirements is new company failed. We became professional and destroying batteries and and the more we learned about it the worse it got i mean with home i got him to give it to him and we were sent to what the rest of the guys were doing i guess we knew why. By the rest of the guy ....
Knows well the chemistry of the dreamliner battery. Boeing chose the most powerful there is but also the most volatile they went to lithium. Which is why here is our danger look so stepped down to secure a plane president just before the fire he started a new company to make lithium ion batteries for business jets. Bugs i was a true believer in the technology. Then he began testing 23. 3 m. Series. Battery that. Went beyond even the latest industry guidelines going so far as to fire bullets into batteries to see if they could be made safe military applications. You know you could run the test that you feel that you need to meet the requirements to be safe but. You also need to have a conscience thats going to tell you i want to do the extreme. In the end testing with a conscience couldnt make the batteries meet the requirements is new company failed. We became professional and destroying batteries and and in the more we learned about it the worse it got i mean with home i got him to gi ....
Know everyone has their trucks out there then there was what has become common in america lines of people being led from the scene of another mass shooting we have 20 confirmed fatalities and we have 26 wounded unemotional democratic president ial hopeful better ork who is from el paso and almost he was heading back to the city and so i just ask for everyone strength for a passing right now everyones resolve to make sure that this does not continue to happen in in this country the president has been informed and is following developments from one of his homes in new jersey this is the 13th math shooting in the United States this week alan fischer aljazeera our correspondent rob reynolds has just arrived at the same rob bring us up to date. Well im standing near the walmart a large shopping. Brewer and something center in help out the fleet part is that were keeping the Food Securit ....