After Amazon discussed with a US congressman on Twitter about his labor policies, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weighted with some of the company’s own graphic words.
“DA’s [driver associates] I cannot, MUST NOT, return the bags to the station with poop inside, ”scolded an Amazon manager in an email from the company, which Ocasio-Cortez attached tweet.
“Is that you?” asked the deputy to the online retailer.
In recent years, Amazon has been repeatedly accused leaving your employees overwhelmed with no time to go to the bathroom. This claim came up in a Twitter exchange between Wisconsin representative Mark Pocan and Dave Clark, Amazon’s head of consumer business, who extolled the corporation’s “progressive” policies.
“If you want to hear about $ 15 an hour and medical assistance, Senator Sanders will speak downtown,” said Clark tweeted. “But if you want to earn at least $ 15 an hour and have a good health care system, Amazon is hiring.”
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Dep. Pocan contested this optimistic image of Amazon’s labor policies.
“Paying workers $ 15 / hour doesn’t make you a ‘progressive workplace’ when you break the union and make workers urinate in water bottles,” said the congressman. I wrote.
Amazon News, an official Twitter account for the retail giant, then jumped in Clark’s defense.
“You really don’t believe in this thing about peeing in bottles, do you?” the bill He asked incredulously. “If that were true, no one would work for us.”
That’s when Ms. Ocasio-Cortez posted the email without defecating.
Amazon has denied that it does not let its employees go to the bathroom, calling these claims “misinformation”. But the idea that the company is unaware of the problem seemed to have been undermined by the e-mail, which mentioned multiple occasions of drivers defecating or urinating in their vehicles.
“This is the third time in the last 2 months that the bags have been returned to the station with feces inside,” said the e-mail scolded. “We noticed a recent increase in all types of unhealthy garbage being left in bags: used masks, gloves, urine bottles.”
“These behaviors are unacceptable and will result in Level 1 violations in the future,” the email warned.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez also linked to a report of The interception in relation to the subject. According to that report, several Amazon employees and documents indicated that Amazon knows that its workers do their thing in bottles and bags, but treats these incidents more as inappropriate behavior to be punished than as evidence of overwork.
“In the morning, you should carefully check your van for garbage and urine bottles,” an email from the company obtained by The interception told the officials. “If you find a bottle (s) of urine, report it to your leader, the support team or me. The vans will be inspected by Amazon during interrogation, if the urine bottle (s) are found, you will receive a level 1 infraction for immediate removal. “
Amazon has not yet responded toThe Independent’s request for comment.