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Amazon deletes job posts seeking to hire people to monitor ‘labour organising threats’

Amazon deleted a job listing from its employment website where it was looking to hire an “intelligence analyst” who would have been responsible for, among other things, monitoring “labor organizing threats” against the company. The company also deleted another job listing for a “senior intelligence analyst” who would have been responsible for monitoring “future risk” such as “organized labor”, and “hostile political leaders”. The company deleted both the listings on September 2 following outcry on social media. Amazon, in a statement to several press outlets, said that “the job post was not an accurate description of the role — it was made in error and has since been corrected”. However, the company does not appear to have clarified what this “error” was. Vice noted that the job listing for the intelligence analyst was present on Amazon’s portal since January 6, 2020. “Analysts must be capable of engaging and informing L7+ ER Principals (attorney stakeholders) on sensitive topics that are highly confidential, including labor organizing threats against the company, establish and track funding and activities connected to corporate campaigns (internal and external) against Amazon,” Amazon wrote in the job description for the intelligence analyst. Another responsibility of the senior intelligence analyst was to “close knowledge gaps by initiating and maintaining engagement with topical subject matter experts on topics of importance to Amazon, including hate groups, policy initiatives, geopolitical issues, terrorism, law enforcement, and organized labor”. The many ways in which Amazon has suppressed workers’ rights Amazon has had a demonstrated history…

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