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tl;dr: Email lists with 500+ people must be moderated and have a manager moderate them. (It's unclear if manager means 'manages employees' or 'manages email lis

• jimmaswell 7y ago
  It would seem like a pretty clear-cut case if these managers denied messages talking about unionizing.
  • willis936 7y ago
    "I'm sorry. Your message about labor rights does not fall in line with Amazon's mission and has been filtered." You wouldn't even need a human to do this.
    • jimmaswell 7y ago
      It would potentially be a slam-dunk lawsuit if it was that explicit.
• jm4 7y ago
  Not really. Big email lists like that generate tons of spam. What Amazon is doing is presumably to block unionization efforts, but, frankly, what's surprising is that they didn't have a control like this in place already. I work for a much smaller company than Amazon (without a chance of a union ever forming) and we don't let just anyone blast out emails to hundreds of people. We used to and it drove everyone nuts. People were selling their event tickets, giving traffic updates, offering up pets for adoption, etc. It's ridiculous. We had one list that was generating 100+ emails a day that were irrelevant to most of the people on the list. Every sizable list has an "owner" who controls access to send to the list. We have other channels like an area on the intranet where people can post these broadcast kinds of messages so it won't clog up people's inboxes. I thought most large companies did this.
  • Pfhreak 7y ago
    Amazon has (had?) a pretty vibrant culture of "*-interest @" mailing lists. Whether it's videogames or whatever, people are used to using those lists and more or less self regulating.