Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Amazon Admits Some Employees Actually Do Use Bottles Instead of Bathrooms

Amazon has apologized to a US lawmaker after falsely denying that some of its drivers are forced at times to urinate in plastic bottles. The Twitter war began last week with a tweet from Mark Pocan, a Democrat from Wisconsin.

“Paying workers $15/hr doesn’t make you a ‘progressive workplace’ when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles,” Pocan tweeted, in an apparent reference to Amazon’s opposition to efforts to unionize a major facility in Alabama. 
Amazon’s official account quickly responded, saying: “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us.”

The Amazon News account replied to Pocan with the kind of internet bravado that comes back to bite the user all too often.

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