Jeff Bezos obviously does n’t want a union in his company . Amazon ’s increasinglyflippant statementsabout protest activity have made that clear , as have years of leak in the press that detail the sorting ofanti - toil reeducationworkers are subjected to , how ship’s company brassdiscuss labor leader , and the sheer resource involved in making sureindividual storesdon’t come light from Amazon ’s grip . Bezos — whose wealth has grown some$87 billionduring this pandemic alone — is synonymous with avarice , and his company is is a tachygraphy for lousy labor practices .
How could Amazon maybe make their position more obvious ? Put it all in a task verbal description .
Two capable positions on the company ’s job board — Intelligence AnalystandSenior Intelligence Analyst — hold some unbelievably startling occupation in the verbal description of their function ( emphasis ours throughout ):
A caravan of protesters in cars surrounds the Amazon Spheres in Seattle, May 1Photo: JASON REDMOND / Contributor (Getty Images)
· Analysts must be capable of engaging and informing L7 + ER Principals ( attorney stakeholder ) on sensitive topics that are extremely confidential , including labor get up threat against the company , found and chase support and activity unite to bodied campaigns ( internal and external ) against Amazon , and provide sophisticated analysis on these topics
The itemization , which seem to have been first spotted by Twitter userJoe Slowik , are explicitly calling for someone to help break up organise efforts , ostensibly from be unions attempting to get a toehold in Amazon ’s conglomerate , as well as grassroots employee activism . Fantastic .
In all likeliness you ’ve read our ( or really , almost anyone else ’s ) Amazon reportage before , so you already know it contract worse :
· Individual analysts will make directly with Sr . Corporate Counsel to compile and provide assessments for use in court filings , up to and including keep order against activist groups ; intelligence service assessment are used by Legal to show to royal court of law that activistic chemical group harbor intent for preserve illegal bodily function vis - à - vis Amazon
That Amazon is pass around quite openly its intent to potentially essay restraining social club against groups critical of its business practices is shocking , but not needs surprising . Not long after purchasing Whole Foods , itsuccessfullyfought for a restraining order against Direct Action Everywhere to keep the group from protest within one of its storage in Berkeley , California .
Still , as a practice , keep back total groups from engaging in protestation is likely quite rare and a brazen corporate ravishment on the inherent right to free assembly . But the emotional state of democracy is n’t something that can be send inside a cardboard boxful , so it mostly is n’t the concern of Amazon — which is perhaps why the job verbal description also hints at developing opponent research on politicians that do n’t want topay out the nosein subsidies just to get a storage warehouse or data nub .
· analyst must be capable of creating and deploying advanced search strings orient to various business organization interests and used to supervise for future risk ; Engaging business sector leaders ( L6 + ) instantly is core to this support , and may comprehend topics including organized labor , activist groups , hostile political leaders
A abbreviated LinkedIn search will , of course of instruction , show that Amazon already employs hundreds of “ intelligence analysts ” within its social status . Previous line of work list with similar titles , though , point towards responsibilities more in line with the title , like crunching data to await forbusiness inefficienciesoridentifying fraudand cybercrime risks . Both new positions are based in Phoenix , Arizona where a fistful of analysts already come along to ferment for the society , again , based on LinkedIn results .
In the event Amazon has not made emphatic enough its refusal to give one-quarter to a union , the same intelligence psychoanalyst caper listing assign “ organized travail ” in the same breath as “ terrorism ” and “ hate group . ”
· Analysts are expected to close knowledge col by initiating and maintaining engagement with topical subject matter expert on issue of grandness to Amazon , include hatred group , insurance initiative , geopolitical issues , terrorism , law enforcement , and direct labor
The company has not remark on whether ( or how many ) current analysts have interchangeable responsibility . Leah Seay , a interpreter for Amazon , say in reaction to a request for comment about these specific job listings , “ The job post was not an exact verbal description of the role – it was made in mistake and has since been discipline . ”
Seay has not tell what about the description was inaccurate , nor have these pages been “ corrected ” so much as “ deleted entirely . ” ( We manage to stash the original textofbothvia the Internet Archive . ) A cursory hunting on the Amazon . Jobs control board now unwrap no comparable psychoanalyst roles in the Phoenix metro region .
update to let in scuttlebutt from Amazon once it became uncommitted .
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