Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
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#2Whatever the corporate equivalent is of a late stage authoritarian dictatorship.
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#3Whatever the corporate equivalent is of a late stage authoritarian dictatorship.
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Re: Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
#5Whatever the corporate equivalent is of a late stage authoritarian dictatorship.
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Re: Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
#6It sounds like its an internal chat app, presumably meant for business. If people were openly talking about "slave labor" and "vaccine" on any public company slack channels, I would think they'd shut it down at most organizations. I don't think you're allowed to use company time to organize. I don't think its unreasonable to make people work when they're on the clock and remove distractions. Many are used to comfortable jobs where they can post memes on slack or comment on social media during the working day, but these jobs are really the exception not the rule.
Re: Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
#7It sounds like its an internal chat app, presumably meant for business. If people were openly talking about "slave labor" and "vaccine" on any public company slack channels, I would think they'd shut it down at most organizations. I don't think you're allowed to use company time to organize. I don't think its unreasonable to make people work when they're on the clock and remove distractions. Many are used to comforta…
I agree with that but I think including "pay raise" is a step too far. Employees have the right to discuss pay, via the NRLA. That is not inherently politically loaded language despite Amazon trying to make it so.
Re: Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
#8It sounds like its an internal chat app, presumably meant for business. If people were openly talking about "slave labor" and "vaccine" on any public company slack channels, I would think they'd shut it down at most organizations. I don't think you're allowed to use company time to organize. I don't think its unreasonable to make people work when they're on the clock and remove distractions. Many are used to comforta…
> I don't think its unreasonable to make people work when they're on the clock and remove distractions.
I find that generally the kind of person who says such things is the kind of person who has a comfortable job where they can post memes on slack or comment on social media during the working day.
Re: Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
#9It sounds like its an internal chat app, presumably meant for business. If people were openly talking about "slave labor" and "vaccine" on any public company slack channels, I would think they'd shut it down at most organizations. I don't think you're allowed to use company time to organize. I don't think its unreasonable to make people work when they're on the clock and remove distractions. Many are used to comforta…
I agree with that but I think including "pay raise" is a step too far. Employees have the right to discuss pay, via the NRLA. That is not inherently politically loaded language despite Amazon trying to make it so.
Yeah you may be right. I don't know about the specifics or have any opinion about particular words. I just think work should be professional. It's not a family. It's a group of people that get together to get a job done.
Re: Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
#10It sounds like its an internal chat app, presumably meant for business. If people were openly talking about "slave labor" and "vaccine" on any public company slack channels, I would think they'd shut it down at most organizations. I don't think you're allowed to use company time to organize. I don't think its unreasonable to make people work when they're on the clock and remove distractions. Many are used to comforta…
> I don't think you're allowed to use company time to organize
True, but they can't be discriminatory in how they restrict communications. If they prohibit all non-work discussions on this app that appears to be fine - but not if they only restrict topics that are likely related to organizing. From https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...
"Also, restrictions on your efforts to communicate with co-workers cannot be discriminatory. For example, your employer cannot prohibit you from talking about the union during working time if it permits you to talk about other non-work-related matters during working time."