It’s clear from experiences like Jonathan’s that the policies gig companies are setting up are not designed to protect workers or public health — they’re designed to be so impossible to navigate, sick workers cannot access funds.
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I was advised to self-quarantine. But I cannot do that because to qualify for any sort of pay or aid gig companies are offering sick workers, I have to take a test, and test positive.
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DD sent a message to workers offering “free gloves and hand sanitizer” in hopes of helping mitigate the spread.
Sounds like a good step. Except when they say "free" they mean you still have to pay the shipping of course. And the shipping is more than $10 — at minimum.
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On Wednesday, March 4, nearly 100 gig workers, customers, and allies came together in Seattle to kick off our local campaign to win new laws for gig workers.
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This week, DoorDash released a brand-new way to make sure its workers accept subminimum wages.
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We’re all fed up with the way Instacart is treating its workers...and we’re all calling on Costco to stand with workers in our demands.
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In June, I was shopping a large Costco order with a bunch of cases of soda and water. I was in the store picking up a case of water when my foot got caught underneath my dolly, and I fell backwards onto the hard cement floor, the case of water falling on top of me.
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What went down during Raise Days from Sept. 5 - 8? Workers came together across apps, and across the country, to fight for better pay — with demonstrations outside company offices, livestreams with lawmakers, and more. Check out the quick video recap!
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Yesterday, gig workers in San Francisco and Seattle delivered a message straight to the executives & employees of our companies: it’s time to #PayUp. And we didn’t show up empty-handed — we brought a special delivery: peanuts (because that’s what Instacart, DoorDash, and Postmates are paying workers) and messages from workers across the country calling for change.
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DoorDash’s announcement basically amounted to…saying that they’re sticking with the same exploitative pay model they’ve been using for years: using customers’ tips to subsidize workers’ pay so DoorDash can get away with paying as little as $1 per job.
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The fact that Postmates cut pay overnight with no warning is bad enough. But it gets worse when you dig into what Postmates is actually paying workers since they “updated” their pay system.
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Postmates cut their pay overnight with no warning. But workers aren’t standing for it.
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Here’s why we need Instacart, DoorDash, and other gig companies to #PayUp.
There are a million screenshots we could share to make it clear just how shady gig companies are when it comes to pay. But let’s dig into a couple.
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