United States: analysts that can predict (and prevent) unionization attempts at Amazon

A job offer for analyst positions posted by Amazon on 01 September has been circulating widely across the social networks, and not just for purely professional reasons. The job listing, that Amazon subsequently removed but which archived by the non-profit organization Internet Archive (here), is for analyst positions with wide-ranging responsibilities, including informing management ‘on sensitive topics that are highly confidential, including labor organizing threats against the company, establish and track funding and activities connected to corporate campaigns (internal and external) against Amazon’, as well as monitoring future risks on issues such as ‘including organized labor, activist groups, hostile political leaders.’ The company is facing a wave of internal activism on social issues, and especially as regards its management of the Covid-19 crisis (c.f. article No.11929). Amazon reacted by declaring that ‘job post was not an accurate description of the role—it was made in error and has since been corrected’, (c.f. relevant article published by Wired).