Amazon Deletes Job Posting For Apparent Union-Busting Role

  • Date: 02-Sep-2020
  • Source: Forbes
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Oman
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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