With your regular hosts on spring break this week, Kimberly Adams is joined by Marketplace workplace culture reporter Meghan McCarty-Carino to talk all things Amazon. The Bessemer, Alabama, union vote isn’t the only labor issue facing the nation’s second-largest private employer. Plus: The changing face of vaccine hesitancy, cicada season and First Contact Day.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

  • “Amazon’s Clashes With Labor: Days of Conflict and Control” from The New York Times
  • “Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds” also from The New York Times
  • “Vaccine skepticism runs deep among white evangelicals in US” from the Associated Press
  • Some “Star Trek” content for First Contact Day
  • “The Biggest Party of 2021 Is About to Start” from The Atlantic

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