Amazon's planned worker chat app would reportedly ban words like 'union'

Amazon's anti-union stance might spill into the apps for employees. The Intercept says it obtained internal documents detailing a planned worker chat app that, while meant to boost happiness, would include a blocklist focused heavily on silencing pro-union keywords. In addition to forbidding the use of the word "union," it would also block terms like "compensation," "pay raise," "ethics" and even "robots." Other bans would focus mostly on keeping things positive, such as "rude" and "stupid." Mos...