Amazon faces showdown with union chiefs over workers' rights
Growing pressure on gig economy likely to be a growing headache for tech giant despite union's Alabama defeat
11 April 2021 • 1:00pm
When Sarah* first read that Amazon delivery drivers were urinating in plastic bottles in their vans rather than take a break, her reaction — surprisingly — was one of envy.
“Lucky men, that’s what I thought,” she says. It is not so easy for her, and other female delivery drivers. “We can’t pee in bottles, can we?” she says.
Instead, she had a different tack when handling huge bundles of deliveries with little time to spare. “Just try not to drink water.”