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Amazon's PR team is beefing with a Wisconsin congressman about the visitor's labor conditions, among them whether its workers pee in bottles.

On Wednesday evening, Wisconsin representative Mark Pocan called out the tech behemoth for its well-documented labor abuses in a tweet: "Paying workers $fifteen/hr doesn't make you lot a 'progressive workplace' when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles."

In response, @AmazonNews, the company'south official news account countered, "You don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, exercise y'all? If that were truthful, nobody would work for us."

But the fact that Amazon delivery drivers pee in bottles and coffee cups in their vans is not invented. It has been well-documented, and is a huge talking point amongst many delivery drivers. It is one of the most universal concerns voiced by the many Amazon delivery drivers around the country that Motherboard has interviewed. Delivery workers, who bulldoze Amazon emblazoned vans, often evangelize up to 300 packages a mean solar day on a x hour shift. If they take too long, they can be written upwardly and fired. So spending fourth dimension locating and using a bathroom is not always an option.

In fact, here'due south a photo of an Amazon commitment commuter'due south pee bottles. Motherboard confirmed the driver'southward position and employment.

"We're pressured to get these routes done earlier night time and having to find a restroom would hateful driving an extra 10 minutes off path to find one," an Amazon delivery commuter told Motherboard. "Ten to xv minutes to detect a bathroom can add upward, significant xx to xxx minutes in that location and back all together."

"Plain nosotros drink a lot of h2o throughout the day so this is happening a lot through the drive," they continued. "I can tell you that if I drove to observe a restroom that I would be bringing back packages every night and that would eventually mean I would get infractions, which would lead to termination."

"[I commonly do information technology] in a bottle...in the dorsum of the van away from whatever packages and make clean my hands with sanitizer considering I empathise how gross information technology is," they continued. "I just park off to the side and close the front end sliding door."

"All the guys do information technology," some other Amazon commuter in Florida who pees in coffee cups told Motherboard. "The best drivers get overtime and so in that location's incentive to cut corners. The most productive drivers get rewarded the most hours."

Peeing in bottles and bushes is a common talking point and meme in the r/AmazonDSPDrivers subreddit. Amazon'southward tweet was shared there with the title Pants. On. Fire. Commenters in the thread suggested that they brainstorm to tweet photos of their pee bottles. A footling over 2 weeks ago, someone on the subreddit posted a photo of a example of water bottles: "Hey, at least they supply us with bathrooms!," the caption read. A mail from a twelvemonth ago titled "Yous really piss in bottles?" was filled with comments of people stating that they practise, indeed, piss in bottles. And garbage bags. And in hedges on the side of the road. Another postal service was well-nigh drivers peeing in hand sanitizer canisters. At that place are dozens of threads and hundreds of comments about the topic on the subreddit. Motherboard'due south previous reporting shows that Amazon has entire teams of people who monitor subreddits and Facebook pages used past their employees and contractors.

Over the last year or so many people take posted pictures of pee bottles, cups, etc. that they say they have left or have found in their delivery trucks. Here are but a few:

Amazon's tweets with Pocan come during the starting time union ballot at an Amazon warehouse in the United States, at a facility in Bessemer, Alabama, that has put Amazon'south labor record in the national spotlight. Amazon has argued that it already provides all of the benefits and perks unions offering, touting its $15 an hour starting wage, and has embarked on a campaign to derail the wedlock bulldoze. Before on Wednesday, an Amazon executive, David Clark, tweeted that Amazon is "the Bernie Sanders of employers," after Sanders announced that he'd exist visiting Alabama on Friday to support unionizing Amazon workers.

It'south as well clear Amazon as well knows that its drivers often have nowhere to pee, which is documented in internal policies. In February, the company released a new fix of disciplinary guidelines that indicates that its delivery drivers will be terminated for "public urination, public defecation, and public indecency."

Last night, i commuter posted on Reddit virtually Amazon'south deprival that its workforce pees in bottles. "We should all tweet pictures of our piss bottles to Amazon."

"I've peed in a Clorox wipe bottle before," another driver posted.

"I had to pee in a coffee cup on shift a couple times instead of trying to observe a bathroom...us girls tin't exactly piss in a canteen," another driver posted.

Other Amazon drivers, who work in rural areas, discover places to relieve themselves in nature.  "I was finding a tree everyday, three times a mean solar day, to pee," a former Amazon delivery driver in Washington country told Motherboard. "I accept non seen anyone get in problem for it, but you can get terminated."

It's non just delivery drivers. In Bessemer not having ample time to utilise the bathroom because of the company'south productivity quotas and disciplinary system has been a fundamental concern of unionizing workers.

"You're sitting there and y'all have to go have a piss, simply y'all don't want to rack upward 'time off task'," Catherine Highsmith, an Amazon warehouse worker in Bessemer, Alabama, recently told Motherboard. "So you're like man, if I just hold it for another hr, I tin can get to the bathroom."

"If you go to the bath a normal amount... information technology starts becoming a problem," she continued. "Nosotros can be written up, you lot can be fired." While peeing in bottles is less common at Amazon warehouses, that too has been documented in the United Kingdom.

We're collecting photograph evidence of Amazon workers' pee bottles. If you have had to pee in a bottle or other inconvenient place while working at Amazon, delight contact lauren.gurley@vice.com or message the states securely on Indicate 201-897-2109.

Non having bathroom access isn't unique to Amazon'south delivery drivers, only a widespread problem across low-wage commitment jobs, especially for workers in the gig economy who are independent contractors and don't have the benefits of traditional employment. Uber and Lyft drivers and DoorDash and UberEats couriers say they too pee in bottles, because restaurants and other businesses won't permit them use their bathrooms.

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Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7amyn/amazon-denies-workers-pee-in-bottles-here-are-the-pee-bottles