Amazon apologises, acknowledges issue of drivers being left to urinate in bottles
, saying in a tweet: “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us.” But it subsequently walked back those comments.
“This was an own goal, we’re unhappy about it, and we owe an apology to Representative Pocan,” Amazon said in its blog post, adding that its previous response only referred to staff at its warehouses or fulfillment centres. The company said the issue was industry-wide and it would look for solutions, without specifying what these might be.
Amazon’s apology comes at a time when workers at an Alabama warehouse are waiting for a vote count that could result in the online retailer’s first unionised facility in the United States and mark a watershed moment for organised labor. Amazon has long discouraged attempts among its more than 800,000 US employees to organise. Allegations by many workers of a gruelling or unsafe workplace have turned unionising the company into a key goal for the US labor movement.
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