If employees actually had to pee in bottles, Amazon said, “nobody would work for us.” That’s a lie. IN ANTICIPATION OF Sen. Bernie Sanders’s scheduled trip to Bessemer, Alabama, to support the unionization drive by Amazon workers there, Amazon executive Dave Clark cast the $1 trillion behemoth as “the Bernie Sanders of employers” and taunted: “So if you want to hear about $15 an hour and health care, Senator Sanders will be speaking downtown. But if you would like to make at least $15 an hour and have good health care, Amazon is hiring.” Rep. Mark Pocan replied via tweet: “Paying workers $15/hr doesn’t make you a progressive workplace when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles,” echoing reports from 2018 that Amazon workers were forced to skip bathroom breaks and pee in bottles. Amazon’s denial was swift: “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us.” But Amazon workers with whom I spoke said that the practice was so widespread due to pressure to meet quotas that managers frequently referenced it during meetings and in formal policy documents and emails, which were provided to The Intercept. The 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. Amazon did not provide a statement to The Intercept before publication.
via intercept: DOCUMENTS SHOW AMAZON IS AWARE DRIVERS PEE IN BOTTLES AND EVEN DEFECATE EN ROUTE, DESPITE COMPANY DENIAL
siehe auch: PAKETLIEFERANTEN – Amazon wusste offenbar, dass Fahrer aus Stress in Flaschen urinieren. Laut Lieferfahrern und internen Dokumenten, die “The Intercept” erhielt, sind Mitarbeiter zum urinieren und defäkieren während der Arbeit gezwungen. Amazon geriet vergangenen Donnerstag in Kritik, nachdem der Konzern auf Twitter Berichte dementierte, dass seine Zusteller dazu gezwungen seien, in Flaschen zu urinieren. Noch am Tag zuvor bezeichnete der Manager Dave Clark den Konzern als “Bernie Sanders der Arbeitgeber”. Nun sollen interne Dokumente belegen, dass Amazon schon seit Monaten über das Problem Bescheid wusste, berichtet “The Intercept”.
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