Amazon is walking back a tweet in which the company’s official news account responded to a U.S. Congressman and denied that its employees are sometimes forced to pee into water bottles.
Back on March 24, Rep. Mark Pocan, a Democrat from Wisconsin, criticized the company by saying, “Paying workers $15/hr doesn’t make you a ‘progressive workplace’ when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles.” The official @AmazonNews Twitter account then wrote a snarky, pithy response to Pocan, rebutting, “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us.”