Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid organizing efforts:
Amazon is reportedly (and suddenly) enforcing rules limiting employees' internal communication as workers, critical of the company's behavior, become increasingly outspoken and organized.
Internal listservs with more than 500 participants are now required to move to a moderated model where a manager must approve any content before its distribution, according to emails obtained by Recode.
Amazon had almost 800,000 total employees worldwide as of the end of 2019, a number that does not include the recent addition of another 175,000 temporary warehouse and delivery workers the company just hired to handle increased demand due to COVID-19. Of those 800,000, more than 500,000 are in the United States, and at least 275,000 of those are full-time employees.
Those hundreds of thousands of employees use thousands of internal listservs to talk among themselves about basically anything. That "anything," of late, includes many criticisms of Amazon. The company has faced both internal and external reproof[*] for its management of warehouses, where some employees have called for better cleaning, more protective equipment, and more paid time off as COVID-19 has spread through at least 50 US facilities.
[*] Malformed link in original; corrected here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @08:18PM
I know the President does this, and it doesn't make it right, but just because you don't understand the data doesn't mean you get to just make shit up. Plus, those numbers include people who aren't in a union but their job is covered by a union.
So what is your point anyway? What are these big evil unions doing? Federal pay lags pretty significantly behind the private sector, so that isn't it. According to those stats, private sector unions only make up about 6% of the workforce. What significant effect do they have on ruining society in your eyes, particularly to garner the hundreds of hours of air time devoted by Fox News? You don't think it has ANYTHING to do with diverting attention from a tax cut that cost $2T by the time the coronavirus hit, where almost all of that money went to the rich and corporations? You could quituple every union salary and it isn't even a drop in the piss bucket that is that tax cut, remember that one where there were ABSOLUTELY NO deliberations in Congress about? So the unions are a shackle on the corporations and society, huh? Man you people are some kind of special.