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The problem (or a problem?) with Amazon's PR response is that they responsed to adversarial-but-reasonable assertions from politicians with blatant lies (e.g. the Amazon's pee bottle tweet https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1374911222361956359), and, it seems, with a manufactured fake grassroots support campaign e.g. https://gizmodo.com/theres-something-fishy-about-amazons-ant...

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> Amazon has an entire program where employees at so-called fulfillment centers (which is to say, warehouses) can sign up to defend the company online. What do the employees get out of it? One day of paid vacation and a $50 Amazon gift card, according to reports from 2019

This is disgusting. Bribing warehouse employees to give rosy descriptions of the company. The link from 2019 is even worse. Tracking them by affiliate id, to see what they said.

You mean paying them to tell the world they like their job? Isn't that the whole point of unionization?

The purpose of joining a union is to gain better wages, working conditions, and protection from mistreatment by supervisors. Then no one has to give you specific perks to entice you into saying that you like your job. You'll just say it's a good job when asked.

There's a difference.

Sounds like Amazon learned from what third party sellers do on their platform.

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