Food delivery workers in New York City are now earning a mandated minimum $17.96 an hour before tips, following months of unsuccessful legal challenges by delivery platforms DoorDash, Uber and Grubhub. But a sudden coinciding move by the affected apps to change how customers can tip is taking money back out of their pockets, the […]
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App-based delivery workers’ long road to justice.
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NYC Food Delivery Workers Secure Landmark Minimum Pay Rate
After a 3-year campaign by Los Deliveristas Unidos, workers are set to make more than $17 per hour before tips — a compromise that’s left both app companies and some advocates dissatisfied.
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Food Delivery Workers Veer Into Warfare Over Breakthrough Wage Proposal
Trailblazing labor group Los Deliveristas Unidos loses leaders over fears that a pay boost measure could backfire, stoked by the major delivery apps.
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Adams Rolls Back $24-an-Hour Minimum Pay Rate for Delivery Workers
In a reversal, City Hall is advancing a new minimum hourly rate of $19.96, nearly $4 less than previously proposed.
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Chick-fil-A Debuts Pop-Up Delivery Worker Rest Space, While Adams Initiative Struggles
The fast-food chain will debut a temporary rest area for delivery workers — the same week a Manhattan community board rejected a similar plan from city government.
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Delivery Worker Hubs En Route to West Side and The Bronx
The proposed new sites, at Verdi Square and in Fordham Heights, would join one already announced at City Hall Park in converting vacant newsstands into charging and rest stations.
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Delivery Workers Cheer $23.82 Proposed Minimum Pay Standards, But Not Everyone’s Happy
Workers who get around on mopeds are pushing for a $5 increase to cover expenses like gas and insurance.
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Food Delivery Workers Would Be Paid $23.82 Minimum Under Proposed New City Rules
Required by a law spurred by worker organizing and THE CITY’s reporting, pay scale is first for the industry.
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Delivery Workers Spark Schumer-Adams Project to Convert Newsstands to Rest Stops
E-bike and phone chargers are coming soon to City Hall Park and other spots, after drivers for companies like Grubhub and DoorDash dreamed of having warm places to pause between runs.
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Hub for Gig Workers, Community Board Diversity Top Manhattan BP To-Do List
New Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine is aiming to create a “resources center” for gig economy workers like deliveristas, while also shaking up diversity on his community boards –– aiming to recruit more cyclists and pedestrians. Both initiatives are part of Levine’s “transition report,” which details 29 long-term goals organized under several priorities that include […]