E-commerce giant Amazon has apologized to a US lawmaker after falsely denying that some of its drivers are forced at times to urinate in plastic bottles. The flap started last week with a message from Mark Pocan, a Democrat from Wisconsin. “Paying workers $15/hr doesn’t make you a ‘progressive workplace’ when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles,” Pocan said, in an apparent reference to Amazon’s opposition to efforts to unionize a major facility in Alabama. But several news media then cited numerous Amazon employees who said they had, in fact, been left with little choice but to use plastic bottles. And the website The Intercept said it had obtained internal documents showing Amazon executives were aware of the practice. The workers’ testimony underlined the complaints of many Amazon employees — both in its processing facilities and among its drivers — about what they say is a relentless work pace.
— source today.rtl.lu | 04.04.2021
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