Follow us on our social networks:One step missing!Go to your email and confirm your subscription (remember to also check spam)There was a fault.Please try again later.Amazon has apologized to a US lawmaker and admitted it had scored an own goal with its initial denial of claims that some of its couriers were sometimes forced to urinate in bottles during their delivery runs."We know drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms due to traffic or sometimes rural routes, and this has been especially the case during COVID when many public restrooms have been closed," the company said in a post. blog.The recognition came a week after Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan criticized working conditions at Amazon with a tweet saying, "Paying workers $15 an hour doesn't make you a 'progressive workplace.' when you break unions and make workers pee in water bottles."Amazon initially issued a denial with a tweet: "You don't really believe the pee in bottles thing do you? If that were true, no one would work for us."But he later retracted the comments."It was an own goal, we are dissatisfied and we owe Representative Pocan an apology," Amazon said on his blog, adding that his previous response only referred to staff at its warehouses or distribution centers.The company said that the problem was of the whole sector and that it would look for solutions, without specifying which ones.Amazon's apology comes at a time when workers at an Alabama distribution center are awaiting a vote recount that could lead to the online retailer's first union organizing in the United States and mark a watershed moment. for unionism.Amazon has long discouraged attempts to organize by its more than 800,000 US employees.Complaints by many about a stressful or unsafe workplace have made organizing the company a key goal for the US labor movement.Follow us on our social networks:Visit other group sites:© 2022 RIGHTS RESERVED EXPANSION, SA DE CV