New Delhi: E-commerce big Amazon on Friday (April 2) accepted that its employees pee in plastic bottles after earlier denying the claims made by Representative Mark Pocan on his Twitter account.
Pocan who’s Democratic celebration and represents Wisconsin had earlier tweeted, “Paying workers $15/hr doesn’t make you a “progressive workplace” when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles,” after calls for for unionization in the Alabama department of the corporate gained media’s consideration.
Replying to Rep. Pocan comment, Amazon official Twitter deal with snarkily responded, “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us. The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have great wages and health care from day one.”
However, Amazon’s declare is fake and plenty of supply employees with the corporate have beforehand acknowledged peeing in bottles.
Paying staff $15/hr would not make you a “progressive workplace” once you union-bust & make staff urinate in water bottles. https://t.co/CnFTtTKA9q
— Rep. Mark Pocan (@repmarkpocan) March 25, 2021
The firm on Friday accepted that its declare was mistaken and issued an apology assertion.
“First, the tweet was incorrect. It did not contemplate our large driver population and instead wrongly focused only on our fulfillment centers. A typical Amazon fulfillment center has dozens of restrooms, and employees are able to step away from their work station at any time. If any employee in a fulfillment center has a different experience, we encourage them to speak to their manager and we’ll work to fix it,” learn the assertion.
It nonetheless claimed that the peeing in bottles was a bigger trade downside and never unique to Amazon.
“Regardless of the fact that this is industry-wide, we would like to solve it. We don’t yet know how, but will look for solutions,” continued the assertion.
Commenting on the apology by Amazon, Rep Pocan tweeted, “Regardless of the fact that this is industry-wide, we would like to solve it. We don’t yet know how, but will look for solutions.”
