Motherboard reported in November 2020 that leaked documents showed that Amazon had worked with the Pinkerton Spy Agency, famous for its anti-union efforts, to spy on warehouse workers across Europe. Insider reported that in a statement on the map, Amazon wrote: 'The Relations Heatmap is designed to identify stores at risk of unionization.' When asked by Insider about the map, a representative from Amazon said that when Whole Foods workers were surveyed, they said they would rather have a 'direct relationship' with managers in lieu of union representation.įor some European warehouse workers, the Pinkerton Spy Agency has gotten involved The metrics came up with a ranking of the then-510 locations based on the likelihood of the workers at these locations pursuing a union effort. Insider reported in April 2020 that after acquiring Whole Foods, Amazon kept track of dozens of factors that indicated pro-union sentiment, including the distance to a union office and the number of human resource complaints at the store in question. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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