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Food delivery people in New York celebrate the entry into force of benefits


Mobile Food Delivery Drivers in New York Celebrate New Benefits.

Mobile Food Delivery Drivers in New York Celebrate New Benefits.

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Mobile Food Delivery Drivers in New York, a large number of them Latin American immigrants, celebrated this Sunday that tomorrow a series of measures will come into force that will improve their employment conditions, which will benefit an estimated 65,000 of these workers in this city.

Last September, the Municipal Council approved a package of measures, which will come into force in steps starting tomorrow, after more than a year of complaints from these workers, considered essential during the health crisis due to the pandemic.

The measures impose on delivery companies such as Grubhub, DoorDash or Uber Eats, which guarantee minimum conditions for delivery people, known as “deliverists”.

The list of benefits that will govern from tomorrow includes from the right to use a bathroom in restaurants where they pick up food, inform workers about customer tips and detail the total payment received.

The delivery men, key pieces of a business that skyrocketed with the covid-19 pandemic, organized themselves as United Deliverers to claim rights after several died during robberies to steal their bicycles or were run over, suffered tips theft or were denied the use of a bathroom, among other problems.

“Today is a great day for the more than 65,000 deliverers and essential workers. Tomorrow, January 24, my wife and I start our day with new labor rights that we did not have,” said Manny Ramírez, leader of United Deliveristas, during a press conference in which they had the federal senator Chuck Schumer, the representative Alejandra Ocasio Cortez and other local politicians.

Ramírez recalled that it has been “a long struggle” with “a high human cost” because “many colleagues lost their lives in the performance of their work.”

“The fight for our rights and improvements in our working conditions has not ended, we will continue to take steps to achieve the desired objective,” he assured, surrounded by a large group of colleagues.

Schumer stressed for his part that the workers, “who only want a better life for themselves and who organized themselves, are a model for the entire city.”

“We want to educate the public about the Deliveristas, what is needed, how they can support them, and how we can support other labor organizations to make our city a more just and equitable place,” he said.

As of April 22, other measures will come into force, such as the one that requires certain distance restrictions to be established or to avoid delivery areas on their itineraries, without being subject to reprisals.

The apps also let drivers know the details of the route before they accept the delivery, pay them weekly and deliver an insulated bag of food after six deliveries.

The delivery men organized themselves with the help of the Workers Justice Project, led by Ecuadorian Ligia Gualpa, who said today with satisfaction that they have shown that it is possible to rewrite the rules of the app industry and guarantee protections for all workers.

“We will continue to organize and transform this industry,” he warned.


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