Washington Post hires Gurley to cover labor

Lauren joins us from Vice’s Motherboard, where she has covered labor since 2019, producing groundbreaking journalism about the conditions that have spurred a huge increase in organizing at some of the country’s largest employers. During the pandemic, Lauren was the first to cover walkouts at Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart and Target, a rebellion by frontline workers that soon became national news. Among her many scoops were stories revealing that Amazon had hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency [vice.com] to spy on its warehouse workers, that the Teamsters chose Amazon Prime Day to launch a national campaign to unionize the mega-retailer [vice.com], and that Amazon delivery drivers were taking photos of their pee bottles [vice.com] to dispute the company’s claim that it didn’t deny them time to take bathroom breaks. Lauren also was among the first to write about a union drive in Staten Island [vice.com], where Amazon warehouse workers in April voted to form the first union in company history.