An Amazon warehouse employee in Alabama who is seeking to convince her co-workers to unionize told senators on March 17 that the company can afford to treat its workers better. “Amazon brags it pays workers above the minimum wage. What they don’t tell you is what those jobs are really like. And they certainly don’t tell you that they can afford to do much better for the workers,” Jennifer Bates told the Senate Budget Committee in Washington. While Amazon began paying all workers at least $15 an hour in 2018, employees at the Bessemer site say working conditions can be improved as they press to become the company’s first U.S.-based union. Workers receive two 30-minute breaks during a 10-hour shift, which includes the time it takes to get to and from the bathroom or cafeteria; Bates said she’s on her feet for most of the time, constantly walking and climbing …