How to Tip Delivery Drivers in New York City: A Practical Guide

Is cash still king? Do delivery workers really earn minimum wage? And other questions about properly paying the people bringing you dinner.

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Gig-work delivery jobs are getting more dangerous | The-14

Delivery gig jobs promise flexibility but expose workers to danger. Weak labour rights, unsafe streets and algorithmic pressure put lives at risk globally now!

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Gig Workers: నేడు డెలివరీ గిగ్ వర్కర్ల సమ్మె

Gig Workers: దేశవ్యాప్తంగా గిగ్ వర్కర్లు బుధవారం సమ్మెకు పిలుపునిచ్చారు. స్విగ్గీ, జొమాటో, బ్లింకిట్ వంటి క్విక్ కామర్స్ సంస్థల డెలివరీ

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Historic pay deal with Uber Eats and DoorDash could set minimum pay for gig economy delivery workers

A deal between the Transport Workers Union and Australia's two largest on-demand delivery platforms looks set to rewrite the meaning of gig economy work, if it is approved by the Fair Work Commission.

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Life Inside China’s Gig Machine

Hu Anyan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing describes life working in China’s logistics and service trades. Anyan’s account reveals differences in context between Chinese and US workers that indicate the difficulty of international working-class solidarity.

“ food-delivery workers — will never earn decent pay from the platforms if they are divided - challenge the Bosses to improve their situation. Class unity and #solidarity is the most effective way to get the powerful to listen. “

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/starmer-uk-delivery-platforms-migrants

#deliveryworkers #LaborMovement #migrantworkers #organize #unions

Working With Delivery Platforms to Harass Migrants

In Britain, hotels hosting refugees have become a target of anti-immigration rallies. Keir Starmer’s government is pandering to the protests — announcing a partnership with delivery app firms to identify asylum seekers working as riders.

Celebrating milestones can take many forms.

For Luis Maldonado, his 50th birthday was spent surrounded by family at the Guajira office—a start-up helping delivery workers like him through e-bike loans.

🚴‍♂️🎉 #EbikeRevolution #DeliveryWorkers

@lkanies This was one of the best articles I've read all year. Seriously, it felt like Pulitzer material. I don't think @joshdzieza reads his fediverse account, but major props.
#BikeTooter #DeliveryWorkers #NYC

@bignose

“Amazon haitatsu-in -- soryo muryo no ura de" / Amazon delivery personnel: Behind the scenes of “free shipping”

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241128/p2a/00m/0bu/021000c

#amazon #blackfriday #BlameCapitalism #deliveryworkers #exploitation #Japan #PARC

https://parc-jp.org/en/about-us/

'Cheaper than a postcard': DVD shows Amazon Japan delivery workers' harsh labor conditions - The Mainichi

TOKYO -- As the purchase of goods and services via internet platforms takes root in our daily lives, the harsh realities of delivery workers in Japan

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A National Movement to Organize Amazon Takes Off

The Teamsters are spinning off momentum from recent organizing fights to new battle fronts across Amazon’s logistics chain. A group of 100 warehouse workers at DCK6, an Amazon delivery station in San Francisco, marched on company managers October 2 demanding voluntary recognition rather than filing for a National Labor Relations Board-supervised election. In the Teamsters’ strategy to organize the logistics behemoth by a thousand cuts, this is the first time that warehouse workers—rather than delivery drivers nominally employed by a subcontractor—have demanded recognition.

Labor Notes