Amazon Deletes Job Posting For Apparent Union-Busting Role
Amazon Deletes Job Posting For Apparent Union-Busting Role
TOPLINE
Amazon on Tuesday took down a job listing seeking analysts to track "labor organizing threats“ after it received widespread criticism from labor groups that panned it as a brazen effort to crack down on efforts to unionize.
Workers protest against Amazon, Whole Foods, Innstacart and Shipt amid the Covid-19 pandemic on May ... [+] 1, 2020, in Hawthorne, California.
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KEY FACTS
Amazon posted a job listing for two analysts tracking "labor organizing threats against the company“ and "funding and activities connected to corporate campaigns (internal and external) against Amazon“
Amazon deleted the posting after hours after it spread online and drew backlash from activists, and