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Love Amazon's 1-2 Day Shipping? It Comes At A Steep Cost To Workers

Amazon workers at the Staten Island warehouse in New York held a rally on Wednesday over high injury rates, something they worry will get worse during the peak holiday season and as Amazon transitions to one-day shipping.

Meanwhile, drivers are reporting speeding and peeing in bottles to meet delivery quotas they call “impossible.”

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley talks with Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi), MSNBC anchor and economics correspondent.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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