Amazon thinks they can create the perfect workforce by surveilling them into submission. With AI cameras, tracking devices, thermal cameras, and scanners everywhere they have made a massive investment in monitoring and control.
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It gets worse. Amazon employs a team of former U.S. intelligence and military agents to spy on workers. The team compiles confidential reports tracking worker organizing, media interviews, and planned protests/strikes in order to stop worker organizing
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Last week, Senators Brown and Wyden wrote a letter calling on Amazon to stop spying on their workers. A letter is a good first step but we need laws to end invasive workplace surveillance.
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Surveillance has a variety of harms on society and workers. Workers exist in a constant state of panic impacting their mental health. Pressure to avoid second by second performance warnings spurs workers to take risky actions resulting in increased injuries & other health issues.
We can’t allow this to continue. Surveillance sets up power imbalances between employers and workers that impedes workers basic rights. People have the right to work in surveillance-free, safe working environments.
Congress is interested in putting an end to this. If ONE congressperson presents a law to end invasive workplace surveillance, there is a real opportunity.
But we need to build momentum before Amazon’s army of lobbyists kills any potential for real reform of their dangerous worker surveillance and manipulation practices.
Sign the petition to stop invasive workplace surveillance. actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop…
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