Deliveristas

Work

Delivery Workers Spark Schumer-Adams Project to Convert Newsstands to Rest Stops

Oct. 3, 2022, 2:45 p.m.April 3, 2025, 2:18 p.m.

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.

Deliveristas

Hub for Gig Workers, Community Board Diversity Top Manhattan BP To-Do List

Feb. 3, 2022, 7:44 p.m.April 3, 2025, 2:19 p.m.

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine wants to create a “resource center” where deliveristas and other independent contractors can work, recharge and get information on everything from wage theft to health care.

Work

Delivery Workers Cheer Restroom Access and Tip Transparency Alongside AOC and Chuck Schumer

Jan. 23, 2022, 6:19 p.m.April 3, 2025, 2:20 p.m.

Starting Monday, restaurants must let delivery people use restrooms on request. Another reform gives workers the right to see how their tips are allocated.

Work

Sen. Chuck Schumer Aims to Deliver Infrastructure Dollars to Help Food Couriers

Oct. 13, 2021, 7:18 p.m.April 3, 2025, 2:20 p.m.

During a ride-along with the labor group Los Deliveristas Unidos in Harlem Wednesday, the Senate majority leader announced he’d like to assign funds from the $1 trillion infrastructure bill to build rest area kiosks for food-app cyclists and drivers.

Labor

New York City es Landmark New Protections for Food Delivery Workers

Sept. 23, 2021, 5:49 p.m.March 14, 2024, 2:23 p.m.

The Deliveristas who kept New Yorkers fed during the pandemic will get bathroom access, minimum delivery payments and the tips they earned, under bills approved Thursday by the City Council. ers hope the first-of-their-kind regulations will become a national model.

Work

NYC Set to Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More

Sept. 22, 2021, 12:38 p.m.April 3, 2025, 2:21 p.m.

De Blasio s first-in-the-nation bills scheduled for Thursday vote, seeking better working conditions in the booming tech-driven food courier economy. The City Council’s actions come as app firms sue to block bills it ed previously.

Work

NYC Food Delivery Workers Face Paltry Pay and High Risks, Analysis Shows

Sept. 13, 2021, 8:01 p.m.April 3, 2025, 2:21 p.m.

The city’s roughly 65,000 app-based food delivery couriers earn an average of $7.87 an hour before tips — propping up a multi-billion dollar tech industry that relies on young immigrant workers who deal with robberies, crashes and worse on city streets.

Deliveristas

Food Delivery Workers Toiling Through Historic Flooding Call Skimpy Wages and Tips ‘A Cruel Joke’

Sept. 2, 2021, 9:40 p.m.Oct. 15, 2023, 4:21 p.m.

Even as the city shut down amid record rainfall, e-bike couriers kept picking up food for paltry pay — including $5 for an hour-long journey from Astoria to Brooklyn. Los Deliveristas Unidos renewed their demands for better treatment.

Essential Workers

De Blasio’s Pandemic Heroes Parade Could Use a Clear Invite List ‘Honorees’ Say

June 21, 2021, 9:44 p.m.April 3, 2025, 2:21 p.m.

With just over two weeks until City Hall’s “Canyon of Heroes” salute to essential workers, many essential workers say they’re still unclear on their place in the parade.

Work

Big Tech-Backed Gig Worker Union Bill Fails to Get in Gear in Albany

June 8, 2021, 8:28 p.m.April 3, 2025, 2:21 p.m.

As an industry-ed proposal to allow gig workers some union rights dies in Albany, efforts to regulate food app delivery companies ratchet up in the City Council.

Deliveristas

Delivery Workers Spark Schumer-Adams Project to Convert Newsstands to Rest Stops

Hub for Gig Workers, Community Board Diversity Top Manhattan BP To-Do List

Delivery Workers Cheer Restroom Access and Tip Transparency Alongside AOC and Chuck Schumer

Sen. Chuck Schumer Aims to Deliver Infrastructure Dollars to Help Food Couriers

New York City es Landmark New Protections for Food Delivery Workers

NYC Set to Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More

NYC Food Delivery Workers Face Paltry Pay and High Risks, Analysis Shows

Food Delivery Workers Toiling Through Historic Flooding Call Skimpy Wages and Tips ‘A Cruel Joke’

De Blasio’s Pandemic Heroes Parade Could Use a Clear Invite List ‘Honorees’ Say

Big Tech-Backed Gig Worker Union Bill Fails to Get in Gear in Albany

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