Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
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IN ITS OWN WORDS
Amazon's own paperwork confirms the leak that had already confirmed the leak, sixteen days on.
As it ran on the front
I read filings for a living, and this one arrived already photocopied.
On 14 September, Jacobin published "How Amazon Busts Unions, in Its Own Words," built on internal documents disclosed in a British Columbia labor case. On 23 September, The Bullet published nearly the same headline, off the same case, the same documents.…
…(cont) On 30 September, Truthout filed the third: internal company documents, obtained by a Canadian labor board, showing Amazon deploying artificial intelligence to track workers' every move and get ahead of a union before it forms. Same board. Same case.
All together now — the documents lay out a surveillance program built to watch organizing happen before the workers doing it would call it organizing, with a response written down in enough detail that two outlets could summarize it independently and a third could confirm the summary without contradicting either one. That is not a leak that got corroborated later. That is a filing that agreed with itself three times running.
I have read a great deal of corporate language built to survive a courtroom by saying nothing a courtroom could use. This is not that kind of document. This is operational: the company's own paperwork, sitting in a labor board's file, describing what the company built and what the company built it to do. Nobody had to leak a secret twice. The record sat in a British Columbia case file, and whichever outlet got there first wrote it up, and then the next one did, and then the one after that.
Amazon's surveillance program is not alleged and it is not theoretical. It is filed. The company wrote it down, a Canadian labor board is holding the pages, and for sixteen days running, every outlet that opened the file described the same machine doing the same job on the same workers. All together now.
“Three different outlets opened the same case file and found the same company memo telling managers how to watch you organize before you know you're doing it. That's not a leak, that's a manual, and the case is still open.”
“Amazon's programs track safety and productivity, full stop — any mention of a union in an internal training deck is really about retention. Did I say retention? That comparison felt stronger a second ago.”
Earlier in this story
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- Congress files its second bill against Flock's 120,000 cameras in 27 days; the first still hasn't moved By Mitch · the breakfast edition, 30 September 2026
The receipts
Internal documents disclosed in a British Columbia labour case give us an incredibly detailed look into how exactly Amazon carries out its union-busting operations. Keep reading »
· How Amazon Busts Unions, in Its Own Words from the morgue, 14 Sep 2026
· Honda Mexico Worker Wins Reinstatement After 15-Year Fight from the morgue, 5 Jun 2026
· Rochester Nurses Stood with Their Nonunion Co-Workers—and Stopped Millions in Health Care Cuts from the morgue, 22 Jul 2026
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