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douglas9

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Fri Mar 26, 2021, 05:42 AM Mar 2021

DOCUMENTS SHOW AMAZON IS AWARE DRIVERS PEE IN BOTTLES AND EVEN DEFECATE EN ROUTE, DESPITE COMPANY DE

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.”


https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottles-union/

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DOCUMENTS SHOW AMAZON IS AWARE DRIVERS PEE IN BOTTLES AND EVEN DEFECATE EN ROUTE, DESPITE COMPANY DE (Original Post) douglas9 Mar 2021 OP
They do stuff that FedEx and UPS drivers would get fired for, too ms liberty Mar 2021 #1

ms liberty

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1. They do stuff that FedEx and UPS drivers would get fired for, too
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 05:46 AM
Mar 2021

Like drive across or turn around in people's yards, and leave packages in inappropriate places.

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