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Amazon apologises for tweet denying their drivers need to urinate in bottles

Amazon Tweet originally said: “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us.”

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-04-04 13:59
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Amazon has apologised for a tweet it sent to a US politician more than a week ago denying the company’s employees work so hard they must urinate in empty water bottles.

It also admitted that some delivery drivers might have had to urinate in bottles and it vowed to improve their working conditions.

The matter was first raised on March 24 by Wisconsin Representative Mark Pocan, who responded to a tweet by an Amazon executive that said the company was a progressive workplace.

“Paying workers $15/hr doesn’t make you a ‘progressive workplace’ when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles,” Mr Pocan said in his tweet.

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Amazon responded: “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us.”

In a blog post on Friday night, Amazon apologised to Mr Pocan and acknowledged that delivery drivers “can and do have trouble finding restrooms because of traffic or sometimes rural routes”.

The online shopping giant said Covid-19 has made the issue worse, since many public restrooms are closed.

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“Sigh”, Mr Pocan responded in a Saturday morning tweet.

“This is not about me, this is about your workers—who you don’t treat with enough respect or dignity.”

Amazon wrote in its blog post that urinating in bottles is an industry-wide problem. To try and prove its point, it shared links to news articles about drivers for other delivery companies who have had to do so.

Sigh.

This is not about me, this is about your workers—who you don't treat with enough respect or dignity.

Start by acknowledging the inadequate working conditions you've created for ALL your workers, then fix that for everyone & finally, let them unionize without interference. https://t.co/tdIns0AR66

— Rep. Mark Pocan (@repmarkpocan) April 3, 2021

“Regardless of the fact that this is industry-wide, we would like to solve it,” the company said.

“We don’t yet know how, but will look for solutions.”

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Amazon’s treatment of workers has been a hot topic recently as it faces the biggest union push in its history at an Alabama warehouse.

Organisers there are pushing for more break time and better pay, with many complaining about the back-breaking 10-hour workdays that include only two 30-minute breaks.

Seattle-based Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.

Related: The firms that got it right (and badly wrong) during the pandemic

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