Amazon Removes Job Listings For Intelligence Analyst To Track 'Labor Organizing Threats' (vice.com) 35
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Amazon [was] looking to hire two intelligence analysts to track "labor organizing threats" within the company. The company recently posted two job listings for analysts that can keep an eye on sensitive and confidential topics "including labor organizing threats against the company." Amazon is looking to hire an "Intelligence Analyst" and a "Sr Intelligence Analyst" for its Global Security Operations' (GSO) Global Intelligence Program (GIP), the team that's responsible for physical and corporate security operations such as insider threats and industrial espionage.
The job ads list several kinds of threats, such as "protests, geopolitical crises, conflicts impacting operations," but focuses on "organized labor" in particular, mentioning it three times in one of the listings. These job listings show Amazon sees labor organizing as one of the biggest threats to its existence. After this story was published, Amazon deleted the job listings and company spokesperson Maria Boschetti said in an email that "the job post was not an accurate description of the role -- it was made in error and has since been corrected." The spokesperson did not respond to follow-up questions about the alleged mistake. The job listing, according to Amazon's own job portal, had been up since January 6, 2020.
The job ads list several kinds of threats, such as "protests, geopolitical crises, conflicts impacting operations," but focuses on "organized labor" in particular, mentioning it three times in one of the listings. These job listings show Amazon sees labor organizing as one of the biggest threats to its existence. After this story was published, Amazon deleted the job listings and company spokesperson Maria Boschetti said in an email that "the job post was not an accurate description of the role -- it was made in error and has since been corrected." The spokesperson did not respond to follow-up questions about the alleged mistake. The job listing, according to Amazon's own job portal, had been up since January 6, 2020.
If history repeats (Score:4, Informative)
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You clearly don't understand how defunding would work
Does anybody? It's just a slogan.
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Unions also got us our public school system, longshoremen, the teamsters, and corruption.
Re:Unions got us weekends and 40 hour work weeks. (Score:5, Interesting)
One of the most interesting stories I've read recently was that of Hal Banks [metafilter.com]. He was invited to Canada after WWII by the government to take over the sea workers' unions because the government was worried that the unions had been taken over by commies. He went in with baseball bats and bicycle chains to "clean things up", and the result was a couple of decades of exactly the kind of corruption and violence that we've come to associate with unions.
Post-Russian-Revolution unions in the West weren't purely the result of heroic worker efforts to lift up the downtrodden working classes. In many cases they were taken over by violent men who were supported by Western governments for as long as they could convincingly say that they were using the violence to root out commies. Of course everything they didn't like got defined as communism - civil rights, homosexuality, equal pay for women, whatever.
Re:Unions got us weekends and 40 hour work weeks. (Score:4, Informative)
One of the most interesting stories I've read recently was that of Hal Banks [metafilter.com]. He was invited to Canada after WWII by the government to take over the sea workers' unions because the government was worried that the unions had been taken over by commies. He went in with baseball bats and bicycle chains to "clean things up", and the result was a couple of decades of exactly the kind of corruption and violence that we've come to associate with unions.
It seems to be largely unions in some nations. You don't generally hear of similar levels of union corruption in North West Europe, for example. I don't know why there is such a difference. In the UK the major complaint about union bosses is that their wages tend to be high compared to the workers they represent and one a couple of years ago with respect to bullying or something, but nothing else. On politics, sure, they get attacked, but not personally as they seem pretty clean and have been largely so for many decades.
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The corruption, was supplied by the bosses, the workers can pay bribes, only the bosses can. So the bosses corrupted unions to leave their businesses alone no matter what they do to their workers, whilst targeting competing businesses. The corrupt police colluded with the bosses to make sure this was not investigated nor prosecuted. The bosses also complain about the governments they own, they paid for the politicians and part of the scam of keeping corrupt politicians in place, is to make noises like they
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The corruption, was supplied by the bosses, the workers can pay bribes, only the bosses can.
Yep, when the president of the UAW was skimming from the training fund, totally GM's fault.
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You appear to be confusing corruption with embezzlement.
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You're right. When one official does it, it's embezzlement. When 10 UAW officials are charged with embezzlement, money laundering, and racketeering - THAT's corruption.
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You are right, but now that most of these benefits have been signed as laws, unions have simply outlived their usefulness. Their benefits have diminished while their negative sides have stayed the same or even grown in some aspects. Coal burning plants powered the industrial revolution too, which brought society a lot of benefits such as increased standard of living, longer life expectancy through better healthcare, etc, etc. yet now we are trying to phase out coal.
Maybe an alternative to unions will evolve
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You are right, but now that most of these benefits have been signed as laws, unions have simply outlived their usefulness. Their benefits have diminished while their negative sides have stayed the same or even grown in some aspects. Coal burning plants powered the industrial revolution too, which brought society a lot of benefits such as increased standard of living, longer life expectancy through better healthcare, etc, etc. yet now we are trying to phase out coal.
As the abolitionist Wendell Phillips [wikipedia.org] once famously said “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few” [thisdayinquotes.com]. In an era when employers routinely refer to people as "human resources", unions are needed as much as ever. There is clear evidence [berkeley.edu] that employees who are union members have better employment terms and working conditions.
And as this study [berkeley.edu] puts it: "Perhaps the most important effect of a strong labor movement is the countervailing force it poses to
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Can we say FLRB Violation? (Score:2)
I knew ya could.
What is truly incredible... And fortunate... Someone in HR was clueless enough to actually spell out what they were doing.
Jeez! How stupid can ya get?!
Pinkertons (Score:2)
That's some evil-sounding shit, Bezos (Score:2)
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Fight it wherever you see it.
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You're in a union family, and you're crossing picket lines? Subverting the organization that helped put food on the table, provided your family with medical benefits, and a roof over the family's head? What an asshole.
I guess they came to their senses (LOL) (Score:4, Informative)
"Amazon Removes Job Listings For Intelligence Analyst To Track 'Labor Organizing Threats' "
A cynic might suggest that the actual reason they took down the postings is that they filled the jobs. And their company spokes-drone's claim that "...the job post was not an accurate description of the role" is true, but only in the sense that the union busting portion of the job was under-emphasized.
Towards the capitalism of Oliver Twist (Score:1)
Bezos is Rockefeller 2.0 (Score:2)
Nothing more needs to be said.
Prison is more appropriate.
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You mean like Rockefeller went to prison?
Job has been filled (Score:2)
Not a mistake (Score:2)
The only mistake was they said the quiet part out loud in the job listing. They'll make the same hire eventually through back channels, and call the person a "labour relations consultant" or something like that.
Wouldn't those violate US labor law? (Score:2)
Oh, that's right, Trumpolini and the Turtle are packing the courts and the NLRB.
And all the "Libertidiots", who believe in FREEDUMB... but don't believe in the right of free association, like joining a union.
Of course, they all have Leverage, and can get whatever they want from the boss.
Right.
Now they'll... (Score:2)