The latest news & notes on what’s going on with the Pay Up campaign.
Hazard pay for gig workers is now the law in Seattle: if you do gig deliveries in Seattle, you are now entitled to receive an extra $2.50 in hazard pay (also called “premium pay”) for each delivery of food or groceries you make inside the city limits.
Read MoreFor three days from Wednesday, April 29 to Friday, May 1, Postmates workers across the country are refusing all orders from Chipotle to demand sick leave, hazard pay, and safety protections.
Read MoreOur analysis of more than two hundred samples of pay data provided by DoorDash workers across the country finds that DoorDash pays the average worker an astonishingly low $1.45/hour, after accounting for the costs of mileage and additional payroll taxes borne by independent contractors. Nearly a third of jobs actually pay less than $0 after accounting for these basic expenses.
Read MoreDoorDash is out today with a claim that “overall earnings (including tips) increased from an average of $17.24 per active hour in August to $18.54 per active hour in October.” But their data blends tips and pay (yet again), does not account for expenses, and more. Accounting for tips and the most basic estimate of mileage expenses, the company’s own figures suggest hourly pay after expenses of just $7.17/hour.
Read MoreFor Day 2 of Raise Days, gig workers took part in a livestream speak-out with elected officials from across the country. We told our stories & talked about how local lawmakers are already working towards making our #PayUp goals into reality.
Read MoreThe key question remains: will they pay workers backpay for the customer tips the company has been misappropriating since 2017?
Read More“First at Instacart and now at DoorDash, the Pay Up campaign has organized workers, spoken out to customers, and created irresistible public pressure that transformed the pay model of a multibillion-dollar corporation.
Read MoreCustomers don’t just “add” a tip: DoorDash in fact sets customers to a default 15% tip. Leave that at the default of 15%, and it adds $0 to what the worker gets paid.
Read More"Talking about transparency is good. And admitting you pay $1/job is better than denying it. But $1 is still $1.”
Read MoreA new analysis of more than 1,400 Instacart pay records finds that the average Instacart worker is paid just $7.66/hour, after accounting for the costs of mileage and additional payroll taxes borne by independent contractors.
Read MoreHundreds of you joined us for our very first National #PayUp meeting on March 27. We came together and talked about how we go from big ideas to crafting real policy. We dug into some of the issues people are seeing across different apps. And we talked about the next steps we can all take to make gig companies finally #PayUp.
Read MoreThat’s loyalty.
Read MoreA survey of tip-taking & payment models on gig economy apps like DoorDash, Instacart, GrubHub, Postmates, Amazon Flex, Uber, and Lyft
Read MoreDoorDash claims that workers in the US averaged “more than $17.50 per hour on a delivery” last year. Even if that $17.50 figure is accurate, it works out to less than $6/hour after backing out tips and accounting for the cost of mileage, contractors’ additional payroll taxes, and other expenses.
Read More“We, current and future tech workers, have a message for DoorDash execs and investors: we will not work for you until you fix your pay practices.”
Read MoreDoorDash promises to pay just $1 for any given job that comes from their own money. Past that one dollar – literally, one single dollar — the more the customer tips, the less DoorDash pays. They just replace pay with tips. And despite how much they like to say “transparency”, they don’t even actually show workers how much pay is coming from the company on a given job, and how much is from the tip.
Read MoreCheck out this long, detailed story from KQED public radio in San Francisco on what happened with Instacart, and what we’re looking to do next on the Pay Up campaign. And special bonus: KQED broadcasts out of San Francisco, the headquarters city of many gig economy economy…. including Instacart!
Read More“Far from appeasing workers, Instacart’s concessions have emboldened them to demand action on more complaints, such as Instacart bundling multiple customer orders into one batch in order to pay less. They are also reaching out to contractors at other delivery services, such as DoorDash and Amazon Flex to reform how workers get paid.”
Read MoreOur National Meeting for Instacart workers on 2/13 was joined by eight hundred shoppers & customers — an incredible gathering of voices and ideas about how we can move forward and push for real change from Instacart and other gig economy companies like it.
Read MoreThe New York Times covered the organizing effort by Instacart workers — and the company’s reversal under pressure. As they wrote: “The gig economy’s work force is fighting back, and in some cases, it’s winning.”
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