Amazon issued an apology on Friday for a tweet denying the allegations of some Amazon workers that they worked so hard that they were forced to urinate in plastic bottles instead of going to the toilet.
The Amazon News account tweet came in response to a message from Rep. Mark Pocan
Mark William Pocan White House delays the announcement of the budget plan Intercept Reporter: ‘There is no way’ that Amazon management did not know about the ‘routine’ of drivers fluffing in bottles. President of the Union. MORE (D-Wis.), Who commented on demands for a “progressive workplace” from Amazon’s consumer chief, Dave Clark.
“Paying $ 15 an hour to workers does not make you a ‘progressive workplace’ if you make a union and have workers urinate in water bottles,” Pocan tweeted.
Amazon pushed back in its own tweet, writing, “You do not really believe the thing of fluffing in bottles, do you?”
“If it were true, no one would work for us,” the bill added at the time. “The truth is, we have more than a million amazing employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have good wages and health care from day one.”
1/2 You do not really believe the thing to fluff in bottles, do you? If that were true, no one would work for us. The truth is that we have more than a million amazing employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have good wages and health care from day one.
– Amazon News (@amazonnews) 25 March 2021
Amazon apologized for its reaction on Friday a blog post, “It was an end in itself, we are unhappy about it and we owe it to Representative Pocan. ‘
“First, the tweet was wrong,” Amazon said. “It did not consider our large managerial population and wrongly focused only on our fulfillment centers.” The company noted that these places usually have ‘dozens of toilets, and that employees can walk out of their workstation at any time.’
“If an employee in a performance center has a different experience, we encourage them to talk to their manager, and we will work to rectify that,” the multinational technology giant added.
Amazon also said the tweet was “not properly investigated”, acknowledging the “need to keep us with an extremely high accuracy bar at all times, and this is especially so when we criticize the comments of others.”
The corporation acknowledged that Amazon executives in particular “may have trouble finding restrooms due to traffic or sometimes rural routes, and this was especially the case during Covid when many public restrooms were closed.”
“This has been a long-standing issue in the industry and is not specific to Amazon,” the report added before including a series of links to additional news reports about drivers for driving services and delivery company workers struggling to find accessible bathrooms while working.
Amazon further said: ‘Regardless of the fact that it’s in the whole industry, we would like to resolve it. We do not yet know how, but will look for solutions. ”
Several Twitter users criticized Amazon for its response last week, including Pocan himself, who tweeted: “And yes, I believe your workers. Do not you? ‘
Since 2018, some Amazon employees have come forward with allegations that they are forced to urinate in bottles, as well as other allegations of abuse of workers, including that pregnant employees had to stand on their shifts for hours and were repeatedly targeted for termination.