Why is Amazon's official Twitter account tweeting offensive to lawmakers?

Amazon News (@amazonnews) , the official Twitter account for news about Amazon, has tweeted quite aggressively to Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Behind this seems to be concerns over trade unions.

Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/26/22352977/amazon-twitter-feud-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-trolling-labor-pee-bottles

Amazon Twitter war with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren spurred by Jeff Bezos --Vox
https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/28/22354604/amazon-twitter-bernie-sanders-jeff-bezos-union-alabama-elizabeth-warren

Early in the process was a tweet by Amazon executive Dave Clark to Senator Bernie Sanders visiting Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Clark 'welcomes' the visit of Congressman Sanders, who promotes a 'progressive workplace,' and Amazon has already realized what he is promoting, such as a minimum wage of $ 15 per hour and healthcare. It is appealing that it is a thing.

1/3 I welcome @SenSanders to Birmingham and appreciate his push for a progressive workplace. I often say we are the Bernie Sanders of employers, but that's not quite right because we actually deliver a progressive workplace https://t.co/Fq8D6vyuh9

— Dave Clark (@davehclark) March 24, 2021

In response, Congressman Mark Pokan said, 'Even if you pay $ 15 an hour, workplaces that crush unions or force employees to urinate in PET bottles are'progressive. It's not 'workplace'. '

Paying workers $ 15 / hr doesn't make you a 'progressive workplace' when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles. Https://t.co/CnFTtTKA9q

— Rep. Mark Pocan (@repmarkpocan) March 25, 2021

Then Amazon News responded, 'You don't believe that you're pissing a bottle, right? If true, no one works for Amazon.'

1/2 You don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us. The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do , and have great wages and health care from day one.

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) March 25, 2021

According to the person who provided information to the news site Recode, Amazon's quota management is quite strict, and the boss said that it may be causing PET bottles to urinate. It has been pointed out that it is not uncommon to reduce the amount of drinks to reduce the number of times people go to the bathroom so that they do not get angry.

Amazon official denies the problem that 'Amazon drivers are too busy to pee in PET bottles', and a large amount of evidence will be released immediately afterwards --GIGAZINE

In response to Elizabeth Warren's tweet that it would submit a bill to demand a fair burden on companies that are skillfully evading tax payments, Amazon News said, 'We have billions in the last few years. We are paying dollars. If you don't like the law we made, please change it. '

1/3 You make the tax laws @SenWarren ; we just follow them. If you don't like the laws you've created, by all means, change them. Here are the facts: Amazon has paid billions of dollars in corporate taxes. over the past few years alone.

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) March 26, 2021

'I didn't write about the loopholes your lawyer / lobbyist corps uses, but I'm sure I'll fight to get Amazon to make a fair payment, I'll fight Amazon's union crush, and Big Tech will be in the Senate. I will fight against the lawmakers so that they will not be bitten by tweets. '

I didn't write the loopholes you exploit, @amazon – your armies of lawyers and lobbyists did. But you bet I'll fight to make you pay your fair share. And fight your union-busting. And fight to break up Big Tech so you're not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets. Https://t.co/3vCAI93MST

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) March 26, 2021

It seems quite unusual for a company's official Twitter account to tweet so aggressively to lawmakers, but this is an election for union formation at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama. It is believed to be related to.

In the past, when a similar election was held in a warehouse in Delaware in 2014, the number of people who agreed with the union was small and it did not happen, but this time the number of votes is close to 6000, so there is a possibility that the union will be realized. there is. If one union is formed, it is possible that other warehouses will be unionized as well, and Amazon will have to reassess how workers are managed.

In addition, regarding tweets of this 'Amazon News' account, security engineers have raised doubts about the fact that posts are posted from ordinary Twitter web apps, where Sprinklr should normally be used. The support ticket has expired, but the ticket was closed without any response.