{
  "id": 6418483,
  "title": "How companies quietly undercut dissent",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/how-companies-quietly-undercut-dissent",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-09T11:40:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-companies-quietly-undercut-dissent.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In 2016, when Amazon workers began organizing at a warehouse in Chester, Virginia, the company tracked where employees gathered, posted anti-union messaging in bathroom stalls and held town halls to discourage them. The National Labor Relations Board forced Amazon to admit, in writing, that it had illegally surveilled and threatened workers. The union drive still failed.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}