Amazon drivers are suing Amazon
for making them pee in bottles
I’m looking at the really pretty flowers I got from the grocery store the other day while sharing my feelings about Amazon trying to prevent Amazon drivers in Colorado from suing Amazon. Onto the news…
News that made me say I wish middle schoolers wrote the law
Amazon drivers in Colorado filed a class action suit against Amazon for making the drivers pee in bottles and poop in bags. Amazon creates tight delivery schedules that don't give drivers enough time to use a bathroom without falling behind their delivery schedule. Not being able to use a bathroom at work is a violation of workers’ rights because it prevents workers from answering nature’s call with dignity and crying in private. Sure, being able to cry in the bathroom at work is not as important as being able to pee, but I do think it should be a worker’s right. Amazon workers should be able to mourn the loss of their freedom at work without getting looks from other drivers on the road.
Amazon obviously doesn’t believe in one’s right to pee or cry in a bathroom during the workday. A driver was advised to buy tools to help her pee in the back of the truck after she was admonished for searching for a bathroom on her delivery route. Instead of giving workers more time to answer mother nature in a bathroom instead of a plastic bag, Amazon is trying to prevent this lawsuit from going to court. This is not surprising given that Amazon is run by a monster in a human skin suit. People always say Jeff Bezos is such an evil human, but has anyone really done any research to make sure he is actually one of us? The humanity in me just can’t imagine making people pee in a bottle so I can afford a yacht.
Amazon is saying this lawsuit doesn’t belong in court because Amazon's role is to invent new ways to be cruel to workers and by sending this case to court the government will be preventing them from carrying out said role. Okay, Amazon didn’t actually say that. You believed me at first though because you know Amazon is capable of anything.
What Amazon actually said is these workers “signed arbitration agreements when they took jobs at their relevant DSPs (delivery service partners), they must now not go to court and instead settle the complaints privately”. Delivery service partners are third party companies that hire Amazon’s drivers so Amazon can claim they are not responsible for people pooping in bags because Amazon doesn’t hire these people.
The more I learn about how companies use the law to shirk responsibility for their crimes against humans, the more it becomes very clear to me that laws are just tools to trick us. Amazon decides the conditions of these workers’ employment yet Amazon can claim it doesn’t employ these workers. It’s like the law was written by a middle schooler who wants to get away with egging people’s homes by saying the eggs actually threw themselves against your wall Mr. Daniels. I didn’t do it.
I wish the law was written by middle schoolers because at least they’d be for humans instead of corporations. If laws were here for us and not for corporations to make people poop in bags, the law would simply say, no capitalism allowed.
That’s it for the news, but don’t go yet
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Thanks for writing about Amazon (the evil corporation, not the forest, though that would be a great topic too.) I never order from Amazon unless it's the only source for the product in the world! Everyone should do the same. Keep up the great work!