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WORKING conditions at Amazon warehouses were in the spotlight long before the company hit the headlines with its hostile reaction to demands for a union in Bessemer, Alabama.
This is one British driver explaining the daily work pressure: “I do what’s called a large van route which means my van is larger than the standard vans.
“Amazon still expect me to be able to turn straight around in the road all the time even down narrow lanes.
“The parcel counts and stops counts are through the roof, we are unable to finish our ‘nine-hour’ routes within the allotted time frame.
In its blog post, Amazon said it was “incorrect” to deny the allegations. The company had responded to a tweet by Pocan on March 25, telling the lawmaker that no one would work for the company if the stories of workers having to pee in bottles were true. Pocan mentioned the stories in his tweet and slammed the company for its history of union-busting.
It wasn’t long before former and current workers at the e-commerce corporation started coming out with their own experiences of having to pee in bottles while on the road delivering packages. The Intercept, a nonprofit news organization, also said it obtained documents showing Amazon executives were aware of the practice.
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Amazon apologized for disputing a lawmaker s claim that its workers urinate in bottles, admitting in a Friday blog post that it was incorrect to deny the report. The online retailer said the issue affects drivers, not employees in its many warehouses across the U.S.
Questions about whether Amazon workers operating under severe time constraints sometimes resort to urinating in bottles surfaced in a 2018 book by British journalist James Bloodworth, who went undercover to briefly work at an Amazon warehouse in documenting the hardship of low-wage work in the U.K. In his account, he came across what appeared like a bottle of urine hidden on a warehouse shelf, which he assumed was one worker s solution to the difficulty of squeezing in bathroom breaks at the massive facility.
Amazon offers rare apology over drivers peeing in bottles
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San Francisco, April 3 : Amazon has issued a rare apology regarding allegations over exploitative working conditions at its facilities, including forcing exhausted workers to pee in bottles , saying that the company will look for solutions to resolve such situations.
The company said late on Friday that this is a long-standing, industry-wide issue and is not specific 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. We will continue to speak out when misrepresented, but we will also work hard to always be accurate, the company said in a statement.