Amazon Monitored Delivery Drivers’ Private Facebook Groups
A team within Amazon monitored the social media chatter of its Flex drivers for any talk of hot-button topics like union organizing, strikes, and warehouse conditions, Motherboard reports.
Amazon has deployed a sophisticated system to monitor the online chatter of its Amazon Flex drivers, Motherboard reports. And while the company has in some cases used that data to solve problems for Flex contractors, it's also keeping tabs on private Facebook groups for discussions about hot-button topics like union organizing, strikes, and warehouse conditions.
Amazon's "Advocacy Operations Social Listening Team" has poked around Facebook groups, Subreddits, and Twitter in a bid to identify potential problems, such as drivers "planning for any strike or protest against Amazon," according to Motherboard. That team generates reports that include the names and screenshotted social media posts of drivers who talk about anything Amazon execs might deem noteworthy.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-monitored-delivery-drivers-private-facebook-groups
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A team within Amazon monitored the social media chatter of its Flex drivers for any talk of hot-button topics like union organizing, strikes, and warehouse conditions, Motherboard reports.
Amazon has deployed a sophisticated system to monitor the online chatter of its Amazon Flex drivers, Motherboard reports. And while the company has in some cases used that data to solve problems for Flex contractors, it's also keeping tabs on private Facebook groups for discussions about hot-button topics like union organizing, strikes, and warehouse conditions.
Amazon's "Advocacy Operations Social Listening Team" has poked around Facebook groups, Subreddits, and Twitter in a bid to identify potential problems, such as drivers "planning for any strike or protest against Amazon," according to Motherboard. That team generates reports that include the names and screenshotted social media posts of drivers who talk about anything Amazon execs might deem noteworthy.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-monitored-delivery-drivers-private-facebook-groups
#US #Amazon #workers #Facebook #group #surveillance
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Amazon Monitored Delivery Drivers’ Private Facebook Groups
A team within Amazon monitored the social media chatter of its Flex drivers for any talk of hot-button topics like union organizing, strikes, and warehouse conditions, Motherboard reports.
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Google employees around the world have formed a new international union alliance called Alpha Global
Google employees have banded together to form an international union alliance, weeks after the formation of the minority Alphabet Workers Union in the US.
This new international entity, called Alpha Global, has been formed with the UNI Global Union, a movement representing more than 20 million workers worldwide, and which is active in 10 countries, including the US, Germany, Sweden, and the UK.
It isn't clear how many temporary or contract workers with Google have joined Alpha Global, and it is likely to be a small fraction of the company's workforce at this stage. The Verge, which first reported the new union alliance, reports that the new entity won't have any legal bargaining power with Google.
Similarly in the US, the Alphabet Workers Union is a minority union meaning it cannot bargain with management and is not recognized by the US National Labor Relations board. It has more than 600 members, out of Google's estimated 130,000 contractors and temp workers.
Still, the emergence of Alpha Global indicates that white-collar workers at big tech firms are looking to cement an emerging wave of organization.
In a joint statement published on Monday, Alpha Global's officials said: "[Many] Alphabet workers have started on a path to unionization and collective bargaining. Workers are building democratic organizations to represent their interests, to struggle collectively, to create a structural counterbalance to corporate power, and to build a movement of tech workers across the industry."
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-union-technology-alphabet-workers-alpha-global-2021-1
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Google employees have banded together to form an international union alliance, weeks after the formation of the minority Alphabet Workers Union in the US.
This new international entity, called Alpha Global, has been formed with the UNI Global Union, a movement representing more than 20 million workers worldwide, and which is active in 10 countries, including the US, Germany, Sweden, and the UK.
It isn't clear how many temporary or contract workers with Google have joined Alpha Global, and it is likely to be a small fraction of the company's workforce at this stage. The Verge, which first reported the new union alliance, reports that the new entity won't have any legal bargaining power with Google.
Similarly in the US, the Alphabet Workers Union is a minority union meaning it cannot bargain with management and is not recognized by the US National Labor Relations board. It has more than 600 members, out of Google's estimated 130,000 contractors and temp workers.
Still, the emergence of Alpha Global indicates that white-collar workers at big tech firms are looking to cement an emerging wave of organization.
In a joint statement published on Monday, Alpha Global's officials said: "[Many] Alphabet workers have started on a path to unionization and collective bargaining. Workers are building democratic organizations to represent their interests, to struggle collectively, to create a structural counterbalance to corporate power, and to build a movement of tech workers across the industry."
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-union-technology-alphabet-workers-alpha-global-2021-1
#google #DeleteGoogle #alphabet #workers #union #global #AlphaGlobal #thinkabout #why
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Google employees around the world have formed a new international union alliance called Alpha Global
Officials accused Google of "suppressing speech and cracking down on worker organizing while consolidating monopolistic power."