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Labor

‘Labor’

Season 1, Episode 11 -  Aired February 22, 2016

After Cheyenne almost goes into labor in the store, Jonah tries to petition head office for maternity leave, leading a corporate union buster to visit the store.

Quote from Jonah

Amy: "Intent to unionize."
Jonah: Yep.
Amy: "International Brotherhood of Sanitation Workers."
Jonah: I printed it off the web. I'm gonna cross that out and write "Cloud 9."

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Quote from Glenn

Cheyenne: Glenn, if it's okay, I might just be, like, ten minutes late tomorrow.
Amy: Cheyenne, you are not coming to work tomorrow.
Cheyenne: I need the money, and they said I would mostly be done bleeding by then.
Glenn: But you should be with the baby, though.
Cheyenne: It's okay. My mom can watch her. I'm gonna leave her with some of my clothes, so she can start to learn my smell.
Glenn: [sees Steve] Cheyenne, this is unacceptable. You've distracted us from our work. You've left your insides all over the floor, and now you've brought your child to work.
Amy: Glenn, what are you...
Glenn: No, no, no. I mean it. You're suspended. For four weeks. With pay.
Cheyenne: Oh, but I... But?
Glenn: You want to make it six weeks? Okay, fine. Bam. Six weeks. Paid suspension. You want to keep going, Missy? Hmm?
Cheyenne: No, I'm good.
Glenn: Good.

Quote from Garrett

Jonah: Garrett, all the employees are leaving early... [Garrett keeps moving]... because they're staging a walkout... Uh, because Glenn got fired.
Garrett: [o.s.] Sure, man, that works.

Quote from Glenn

Amy: Time to go to the hospital?
Cheyenne: I don't think I'm gonna make it to the hospital. I think I'm having this baby here.
Glenn: Okay. We need towels. Someone run to the store and buy some towels! No, wait! We're a store! Get some towels!
Mateo: On it.

Quote from Amy

Tate: Move! Pharmacist coming through. Step aside. I need room. All right, Cheyenne. I need you to listen to me here, and we will get through this. Now, in the last 24 hours, have you taken any medication I need to know about.
Cheyenne: Just some Tums.
Tate: Calcium carbonate. That's fine. It's not gonna harm the baby. All right. [walks away]
Amy: Okay, yeah. That's it?
Tate: Well, yeah. I'm a pharmacist. I don't know how to deliver a baby. Gross. But, um, good luck. [applause] My training kicked in. You're welcome, everyone.

Quote from Jonah

Jonah: Will we need cotton balls? I'll get cotton balls.

Quote from Garrett

Amy: Garrett, you're filming this?
Garrett: Yeah, for Bo. I figured he'd want to see it.
Amy: Fine. Can everyone else back up? This is a private moment.
[Customers and Sal are watching the live footage on the TVs in the store]

Quote from Amy

Cheyenne: [groaning]
Amy: You're doing great. I'm right here.
Woman: Excuse me, miss. What's the difference between a sunblock and a sunscreen?

Quote from Jonah

Jonah: Cloud 9 made over a billion dollars last year. Why don't we just ask them to pay for maternity leave?
Amy: Oh, you want to just call corporate and ask them? That sounds easy.
Jonah: It's worth a shot, isn't it? I mean, what's the worst they can do, say no?
[later:]
Woman: [on the phone] Employee services.
Amy: Hi, this is Amy Dubanowski from Store 1217. We have an employee here who's about to have a baby, and I was wondering if maybe we could get her some paid maternity leave.
Woman: I'm sorry, we don't offer paid maternity leave.
Jonah: Don't just give up.
Amy: Well, some of us were wondering if you could change that policy, because we really want it.
Woman: Um, that's just not something we offer.
Jonah: Okay, but is it, like, a conversation you guys are having? Because I know other big companies do offer it. Typically, their employees would be in unions.
Woman: Transferring now. Please hold.
Amy: What are you doing? Why would you say that?
Jonah: Say what?

Quote from Amy

Jeremy: [on phone] Hi there, Amy. This is Jeremy, vice president of employee relations.
Amy: Hi. I don't know exactly...
Jeff: Do me a solid and hang tight for one second, Aim.
Jonah: What's happening?
Amy: I don't know.
Woman: Please hold for Greg.
Amy: Who's Greg? Why are we getting Greg?
Greg: Go for Greg.
Jeremy: Hey, it's Jeremy. I've got Rebecca from legal and Amy from Store 1217, where we've got that union problem.
Jonah: Oh, no!
Amy: No. No. We were talking about maternity leave and somebody very annoying mentioned the word "union."
Greg: Whoa, let's just all calm down, take a breath, step back from the ledge.
Jonah: No, no, no, no.
Amy: No, there's no ledge. Nobody's talking about unions.
Jonah: No way.
Amy: And nobody's going on strike.
Greg: Please hold. [soft jazz music]
Howard: Yeah, hi. Okay, you've got Howard, Sue, Cheryl, Keith, Guillermo...
Jonah: That's so many people.
Howard: Renee, and Alan here.
All: Hello.
Jonah: Hi.
Amy: Hi.
Howard: Okay, hang tight down there, 1217. We're sending someone down to you first thing tomorrow morning.
Amy: No.
Howard: Good stuff?
Jonah: No, no, no, no, wait, wait.
Amy: You don't have to do that.
All: Bye.

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