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Amazon tried to shut down a protest by deleting employees' calendar invites

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Re: Amazon tried to shut down a protest by deleting employees' calendar invites

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But there's a broader issue here besides using an internal employee calendar. Amazon could have just addressed their employees legitimate concerns but this just comes off as petty and out of touch. It's not like they can't afford to treat their employees better, they're choosing not to do it because they'll profit slightly less.

If you cede to every employee request...?

Employee request like protecting their health. Why would a company grant that request? /s

Re: Amazon tried to shut down a protest by deleting employees' calendar invites

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I sincerely wish Amazon employees well and the best of luck working out their grievances, but > [...] told The Seattle Times that the company deleted the invites from its internal calendar, [...] It looks like the event was created on the company's internal system. You cannot expect the company to be OK with keeping this sort of stuff around. Do your organizing using tools outside of the company you're organizing aga…

yea it's like sending out CVs to companies using your current work email. they can read it.

Re: Amazon tried to shut down a protest by deleting employees' calendar invites

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Email is not inventory to be sold, or even depletable. This is more like putting up a flyer in the break room. Technically the cork board gets damaged by the push pin, but it's not particularly relevant.

Energy and (wo)man-hours to run an email server infrastructure and all of the security to go along with it.

Which is basically a fixed cost, like putting up a cork board. So as I said, not particularly relevant.

But as you're helping shoehorn property rights into support for authoritarianism, I will point you to some legal advice directly:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/shop-talk-rules-unio...

As long as Amazon prohibits using their calendars for all non-work content (and enforces this), they're in the right. Otherwise, this is censorship targeted at employee organizing and they're in the wrong.

Re: Amazon tried to shut down a protest by deleting employees' calendar invites

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I sincerely wish Amazon employees well and the best of luck working out their grievances, but > [...] told The Seattle Times that the company deleted the invites from its internal calendar, [...] It looks like the event was created on the company's internal system. You cannot expect the company to be OK with keeping this sort of stuff around. Do your organizing using tools outside of the company you're organizing aga…

yea it's like sending out CVs to companies using your current work email. they can read it.

No, it's like putting your personal appointments on the calendar, with or without details...which everyone does, right? I mean, if I'm going to be out next Monday morning to go to the dentist, it makes sense to put it on my work calendar and probably share it with my department, so they know where I am. In a union workplace, meetings would be one of the things that you put on your schedule. I mean, how would a union even work if it was treated differently from normal activities?

Re: Amazon tried to shut down a protest by deleting employees' calendar invites

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Energy and (wo)man-hours to run an email server infrastructure and all of the security to go along with it.

Which is basically a fixed cost, like putting up a cork board. So as I said, not particularly relevant. But as you're helping shoehorn property rights into support for authoritarianism, I will point you to some legal advice directly: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/shop-talk-rules-unio... As long as Amazon prohibits using their calendars for all non-work content (and enforces this), they're in the right. Othe…

It’s not a fixed cost.
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