This week, the NLRB found Amazon illegally interrogated a worker who organized for safer conditions early in the pandemic at an Amazon warehouse.
It’s the latest in Amazon’s long history of violating the law to keep their workers from organizing unions. vice.com/en/article/dy8…
Amazon has a union busting formula:
1. Hire union avoidance consultants & former FBI officials 2. Use surveillance technology to identify “threats” 3. Threaten, intimidate or fire pro-union workers 4. Pay fines for breaking the law + post a notice saying they won’t do it again
Amazon’s union busting strategy starts with surveillance.
Since 2017, @Amazon has hired more than 20 former FBI agents. Last year, Amazon was caught trying to hire two “intelligence analysts” tasked with tracking “labor organizing threats.”