Amazon Doubles Down On Union Busting

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Mar 25

“You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” Amazon tweeted late last night. “If that were true, nobody would work for us.”

The company was responding to Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), who had tweeted about Amazon’s union busting, and accounts from employees that they urinate in water bottles in lieu of taking bathroom breaks (complaints that have been well-documented).

Amazon appeared to be doing online damage control as high profile politicians including Pocan, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and even Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) back workers organizing a fulfillment center union drive in Bessemer, Alabama. If workers vote to unionize, the center would be the first unionized Amazon shop in the country, an unprecedented win for employees of a trillion dollar company known for its brutal working conditions.

Sanders is meeting with workers in Bessemer on Friday. For their part, the company recently brought on a social media influencer as an “Amazon partner” to tour a facility in Dallas and ask workers why they loved their jobs. Just how much they love their jobs may become clear on March 29 – the deadline for the unionization vote.