Amazon apologized to Rep. Mark Pocan after admitting its drivers could not use the restrooms sometimes

Amazon issued an apology to Rep. Mark Pocan because of how the company responded to his previous social media post about the company’s drivers being forced to urinate in water bottles while on the job.

Amazon called out on Twitter

Amazon suggested that the “peeing in the bottle” reports are not true when the U.S. official mentioned it via tweet. At that time, Rep. Pocan wrote: “Paying workers $15/hr doesn't make you a "progressive workplace" when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles.”

Jeff Bezos’ company then wrote a response that reads, “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us.”

Amazon went on to say that the truth is that it has more than a million employees worldwide who are proud of what they do, have good wages and health care benefits since they started working for the company.

The company admits the issue with the working condition and apologized

Through a blog post that was published last weekend, Amazon stated it owes an apology to Rep. Pocan. The firm added that their tweet was an own-goal, and they’re not happy about it.

Amazon then acknowledged that there could be times when some of the drivers could not go to restrooms when on the road. The company also cited reasons why this may have happened.

"We know that drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms because of traffic or sometimes rural routes, and this has been especially the case during Covid when many public restrooms have been closed," the firm stated.

The company further listed its mistakes when it posted the tweet as a reply to Rep. Pocan’s post. The apology came after the lawmaker criticized Amazon for its working conditions and efforts to prevent the formation of workers’ union. In any case, the company said it wants to fix the issue and will look for a solution.

Meanwhile, Reuters reported that workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Alabama had cast their votes to decide whether to unionize. They are now waiting for the results of the votes count.

It was said that the announcement of results could be done this week. In case the majority voted to have a union, this will be the first unionized facility of the company in the U.S., where it has over 800,000 employees across the states.