Washington, USA
Amazon admitted that its drivers have to urinate in bottles due to traffic or trouble finding toilets during delivery routes, in publicly apologizing to a U.S. congressman who denounced the situation and to whom The company responded with a tweet that it has now considered “incorrect”.
“That was an own goal, we are not happy and we owe an apology to the rep (Brand) Pocan “, to point Amazon in a statement posted on his blog.
“We know – said the internet sales giant – that drivers may have trouble finding toilets due to traffic or sometimes on rural routes, and this has been especially the case during the covid, when they have closed many public toilets. “
According to the note, however, this is “a long-standing problem that affects the entire industry and is not specific to Amazon“, Fact that the company illustrated with a series of articles related to the subject.
The firm, which is already the second largest employer in the country, retracted the message it posted on Twitter on March 24 in response to Pocan, who is the Democratic representative for Wisconsin.
“Paying workers $ 15 an hour doesn’t make it a‘ progressive job ’when a union is destroyed and workers are made to urinate in water bottles,” Pocan said in a tweet.
“You don’t really believe in urinating in bottles, do you?” I answer Amazon in another tri.
“If that were true,” he added, “no one would work for us. The truth is, we have over a million amazing employees around the world who are proud of what they do and have excellent salaries and medical care since from the first day “.
In his apology posted on his blog, Amazon point out that his tweet “was incorrect.”
“It didn’t contemplate our large population of drivers and instead erroneously focused only on our compliance centers. A typical Amazon logistics center has dozens of restrooms and employees can walk away from their station. work at any time, ”the note explained.
In any case, Amazon indicated that they would like to solve the problem, although it admitted that it does not yet know how, but promised to look for solutions.
“We will continue to speak when false information is presented, but we will also work hard to always be accurate,” the Seattle-based company said in a statement that it has waged a battle to avoid what could be its first union in Seattle. USA, where its workforce brings together about 800,000 workers.