Amazon denies workers 'pee in bottles' amid mounting evidence

Amid a mounting evidence of allegedly illtreating its lowpaid workers Amazon has denied exploitative working conditions at its facilities including forcing exhausted workers to pee in bottlesReplying to a tweet from US Representative Mark Pocan DWI the ecommerce behemoth said the companys unionbusting tactics allegations are baselessPaying workers 15hr doesnt make you a progressive workplace when you unionbust amp make workers urinate in water bottles Pocan said in a tweet on ThursdayAmazon replied You dont 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 oneWe hope you can enact policies that get other employers to offer what we already do the company further statedOnce the Twitter war started several journalists and people who have documented such incidents at Amazon facilities began flooding the WebJournalist James Bloodworth whose 2018 book titled Hired Six Months Undercover in LowWage Britain documented his experience of lowpaid work for companies including AmazonI was the person who found the pee in the bottle Trust me it happened Bloodworth responded to Amazon tweetLauren Kaori Gurley a labor reporter with Motherboard tweeted As a labor reporter who covers Amazon extensivelyI can say Amazon delivery drivers not having a time or place to pee is one of the most universal concerns I hear aboutThe Intercept published a report on Thursday citing formal policy documents and emails from Amazon detailing more cases of drivers urinating into bottles and even resorting to defecating into bagsThe practice these documents show was known to management which identified it as a recurring infraction but did nothing to ease the pressure that caused it In some cases employees even defecated in bags the report mentioned detailing companys poor working conditionsWeve noticed an uptick recently of all kinds of unsanitary garbage being left inside bags used masks gloves bottles of urine reads an email from an Amazon logistics manager provided to The InterceptThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever