Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App to Ban Words Like “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” and “Plantation”

[Eric]

Wow, imagine being one of the world's richest billionaires and fearing your employees seeking a livable wage.

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AMAZON WILL BLOCK and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept. An automatic word monitor would also block a variety of terms that could represent potential critiques of Amazon’s working conditions, like “slave labor,” “prison,” and “plantation,” as well as “restrooms” — presumably related to reports of Amazon employees relieving themselves in bottles to meet punishing quotas.
“Our teams are always thinking about new ways to help employees engage with each other,” said Amazon spokesperson Barbara M. Agrait. “This particular program has...

 

[SuperMatt]

Wow, imagine being one of the world's richest billionaires and fearing your employees seeking a livable wage.

Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
AMAZON WILL BLOCK and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept. An automatic word monitor would also block a variety of terms that could represent potential critiques of Amazon’s working conditions, like “slave labor,” “prison,” and “plantation,” as well as “restrooms” — presumably related to reports of Amazon employees relieving themselves in bottles to meet punishing quotas.
“Our teams are always thinking about new ways to help employees engage with each other,” said Amazon spokesperson Barbara M. Agrait. “This particular program has...

The greedy, immoral billionaires like Bezos will never do the ”right thing.” They must be forced through worker organization... because we are seeing that government will not save anybody from these reprobates either. We would need numbers of Democrats such as we haven’t seen since the 1960s to see any laws limiting corporations.