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• @jason_koebler Jason Koebler on x

  SCOOP: Deep investigation by @LaurenKGurley based on trove of leaked documents show Amazon hired literal Pinkertons to spy on workers. It also surveils unions, social movements, environmental groups including @GretaThunberg & @Greenpeace https://www.vice.com/...

• @bcmerchant Brian Merchant on x

  If there is any remaining doubt that Amazon's ambition is to be an old school monopoly run by a modern robber baron whose success depends on crushing labor, just consider this: They hire the literal Pinkertons to suppress workers. The PINKERTONS. https://www.vice.com/... https://…

• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  NEW: Dozens of docs leaked to @LaurenKGurley reveal a vast Amazon surveillance operation: 1) spying on workers w Pinkertons 2) surveilling labor unions 3) surveilling @Greenpeace & @GretaThunberg's group 4) surveilling France's gilets jaunes movement https://www.vice.com/...

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  New: leaked docs from inside Amazon's Global Security Operations Center reveal company's use of Pinkerton operatives—private intel—to spy on workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements https://www.vice.com/...

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  Amazon making fake social media profiles to monitor workers. https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @deerhoof @deerhoof on x

  Amazon spokesperson just said this is completely normal https://twitter.com/...

• @dellsystem @dellsystem on x

  amazon keeps going down the checklist of ‘things morally bankrupt companies do when they have too much power’. next it's going to be, “announcing a partnership with corecivic (formerly corrections corporation of america) to provide work opportunities to marginalized communities” …

• @joeradinovich Joe Radinovich on x

  Having spied on and killed Americans striking for better pay and conditions, that the Pinkertons still go by the name Pinkerton really says a lot about the market for for “risk management.” I mean, even Blackwater changed their name. https://twitter.com/...

• @flyingwithsara Sara Nelson on x

  Same shit, different century. The union-buster playbook is always the same. But workers will teach Bezos what we taught his predecessors in the coal mines and the steel mills and the auto factories: Solidarity will win in the end. #1u https://twitter.com/...

• @econ_marshall Marshall Steinbaum on x

  but an economist told me they haven't broken the law https://twitter.com/...

• @bcmerchant Brian Merchant on x

  With Amazon using a global intelligence operation and actual Pinkertons to spy on and intimidate its workforce, Uber/Lyft spending $100s of millions to crush labor protections, it should be clearer than ever that these companies' most important ‘innovation’ is exploiting workers …

• @lorenasgonzalez Lorena Gonzalez on x

  😳the Pinkerton Detective Agency 😳 https://twitter.com/...

• @sabotthecat Armajeddon on x

  Robber-baron monopolies and the Pinkertons it's literally the same shit as a century and a half back. https://twitter.com/...

• @levidamien Levi Damien on x

  Past time to find any possible Amazon alternative. https://twitter.com/...

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on x

  This leak to @LaurenKGurley makes it impossible to ignore: @amazon is a Bad Company. https://twitter.com/...

• @vice @vice on x

  Amazon has hired Pinkerton operatives—yes *those* Pinkertons—to gather intelligence on warehouse workers. https://www.vice.com/...

• @leavittalone John Leavitt on x

  Man we're outsourcing everything these days https://twitter.com/...

• @stevelemongello Steven Lemongello on x

  Pinkertons! Did they spy on union meetings sporting bowler hats and handlebar mustaches https://twitter.com/...

• @maxberger Max Berger on x

  The richest man in the world employs a department of spies to monitor the political activity of his lowest paid workers. https://www.vice.com/...

• @karishma4va Karishma Mehta on x

  No matter how good the PR team spins this, Jeff Bezos + Amazon are using Pinkerton spies to surveil organized labor around the world. These leaked documents and reporting by @LaurenKGurley are enough to prove that we cannot [must not] take this threat to our democracy lightly. ht…

• @nekkowe Nekk-o'-Lantern on x

  @josephfcox Wow, I figured the author meant “Pinkerton operatives” as a sort of generic euphemism for union buster spies, but nope It is literally THE Pinkerton “We're The Ones From The Homestead Massacre” Detective Agency

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  The documents offer an unprecedented look inside the security and surveillance apparatus of a company that has vigorously attempted to tamp down employee dissent and has previously been caught smearing employees who attempted to organize their colleagues https://www.vice.com/... …

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  One document says private spies were “inserted” into an Amazon warehouse https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  Amazon sees environmental activism as a threat to its business, judging by leaked intel intelligence reports https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @lorenzofb Lorenzo on x

  NEW: Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon's Global Security Operations Center reveal the company's reliance on a spy firm to monitor on warehouse workers and the extensive tracking of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements. https://www.vice.com/...