{"id":5267,"date":"2022-04-05T20:39:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/dont-say-union-amazon-list-of-words-banned-from-staff-app-is-leaked\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T20:39:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:39:05","slug":"dont-say-union-amazon-list-of-words-banned-from-staff-app-is-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/dont-say-union-amazon-list-of-words-banned-from-staff-app-is-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t say union: Amazon list of words banned from staff app is leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planned social media app would prevent workers from using terms such as \u2018fire\u2019, \u2018slave labor\u2019, \u2018diversity\u2019 and \u2018injustice\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Amazon reportedly plans to block the word \u201cunion\u201d and other related keywords from an internal messaging app the company is developing for workers.<\/p>\n<p>The list of banned words includes \u201cunion\u201d, \u201cfire\u201d, \u201ccompensation\u201d, \u201cplantation\u201d, \u201cslave labor\u201d, \u201cdiversity\u201d, \u201crobots\u201d, \u201cgrievance\u201d and \u201cinjustice\u201d, among others, according to leaked internal messages seen by <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/04\/04\/amazon-union-living-wage-restrooms-chat-app\/\">the Intercept<\/a>. The news came days after Amazon workers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/01\/amazon-union-groups-see-hope-workers-vote-alabama-new-york\">New York<\/a> made history by voting to form a union, the first successful US organizing effort in the company\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/05\/amazon-banned-words-list-union-internal-app\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/26755004cd1f54c3d3d61895b3add5fcc280ce0e\/0_179_5800_3480\/master\/5800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=eddd6c16ce5dbe41d58ead312ee5a808\" title=\"Don\u2019t say union: Amazon list of words banned from staff app is leaked\" \/>Planned social media app would prevent workers from using terms such as \u2018fire\u2019, \u2018slave labor\u2019, \u2018diversity\u2019 and \u2018injustice\u2019<br \/>\nAmazon reportedly plans to block the word \u201cunion\u201d and other related keywords from an internal messaging app the company is developing for workers.<br \/>\nThe list of banned words includes \u201cunion\u201d, \u201cfire\u201d, \u201ccompensation\u201d, \u201cplantation\u201d, \u201cslave labor\u201d, \u201cdiversity\u201d, \u201crobots\u201d, \u201cgrievance\u201d and \u201cinjustice\u201d, among others, according to leaked internal messages seen by the Intercept. The news came days after Amazon workers in New York made history by voting to form a union, the first successful US organizing effort in the company\u2019s history. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned social media app would prevent workers from using terms such as \u2018fire\u2019, \u2018slave labor\u2019, \u2018diversity\u2019 and \u2018injustice\u2019 Amazon reportedly plans to block the word \u201cunion\u201d and other related keywords from an internal messaging app the company is developing for workers. The list of banned words includes \u201cunion\u201d, \u201cfire\u201d, \u201ccompensation\u201d, \u201cplantation\u201d, \u201cslave labor\u201d, \u201cdiversity\u201d, \u201crobots\u201d, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/dont-say-union-amazon-list-of-words-banned-from-staff-app-is-leaked\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don\u2019t say union: Amazon list of words banned from staff app is leaked<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}