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Who's Watching the Workers? · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  I'm sitting in a safety meeting, in Sharonville, and the cameras came up
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  and my supervisor, uh, said, "Guys, it's not even a camera. It's a light sensor
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  that can detect your body position."
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Friday, June 12th.
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  absolutely preposterous for them to claim that it has no audio or video capability.
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  Now, they, what they're talking about is the settings, but as we've
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  already touched on, the, the device itself can override its own settings,
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  so the settings are meaningless.
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  It can actually turn itself on to record.
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  So maybe settings have been set do not record, do not monitor.
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  The camera itself can actually turn itself back on and start recording.
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  That's from Working Voices on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  laborheritage.org, In today's labor history, on this date in 1886, the first
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  Seattle Dockworkers Union was formed.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.