NEW YORK: Amazon is sorry for tweeting about peeing.
The corporate apologised in a late Friday weblog publish for a tweet it despatched to a congressman greater than per week in the past denying that its staff work so onerous they need to urinate in empty water bottles.
It additionally admitted that some supply drivers might need needed to urinate in bottles and it vowed to enhance their working situations.
The matter was first raised March 24 by Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, who responded to a tweet by an Amazon government that stated the corporate was a progressive office.
“Paying employees $15/hr does not make you a progressive office’ if you union-bust & make employees urinate in water bottles,” Pocan stated in his tweet.
Amazon responded: “You do not actually imagine the peeing in bottles factor, do you? If that have been true, no one would work for us.”
Within the Friday night time weblog publish, Amazon apologized to Pocan and acknowledged that supply drivers “can and do have bother discovering restrooms due to site visitors or generally rural routes.”
The net procuring big stated COVID-19 has made the problem worse since many public restrooms are closed.
“Sigh,” Pocan responded in a Saturday morning tweet.
“This isn’t about me, that is about your employees, who you do not deal with with sufficient respect or dignity.”
Amazon wrote in its weblog publish that urinating in bottles is an industry-wide drawback.
To attempt to show its level, it shared hyperlinks to information articles about drivers for different supply firms who’ve had to take action.
“No matter the truth that that is industry-wide, we wish to resolve it,” the corporate stated.
“We do not but understand how, however will search for options.”
Amazon’s therapy of employees has been a scorching matter just lately because it faces the most important union push in its historical past at an Alabama warehouse.
Organizers there are pushing for extra break time and higher pay, with many complaining in regards to the back-breaking 10-hour workdays that embody solely two 30-minute breaks.
Seattle-based Amazon did not reply to a request for remark.
