Amazon acknowledged Friday that it has an eviction issue.
The web giant believed that delivery drivers have limited access to toilets, which means allegations of urinating in bottles or other places in the public are likely to be true.
“We know that drivers can and have trouble finding restrooms because of traffic or sometimes rural routes,” the online retail giant posted on its AboutAmazon portal. “And that has been especially the case during Covid, when many public restrooms have been closed.”
Admission follows a spit on Twitter with Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.), last month, in which Congressman accused Amazon of being a union destruction operation that “will make workers urinate in water bottles.”
Amazon originally denied the claim.
“You really don’t believe in peeing in bottles, do you?” the company responded to Twitter. “If that were true, no one would work for us.”
Amazon’s mea culpa admits that the original answer was incorrect.
“He didn’t contemplate our large number of drivers and instead focused wrongly only on our compliance centers.”
But, the company added, “This is a long-term issue across the industry and is not specific to Amazon.”
There’s still no word on how Amazon will fix the issue, other than to report it. “[we] will look for solutions “.