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[Link] Gopuff Delivery Workers Plan National Strike Ahead of Thanksgiving
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Some participating workers plan to not work their scheduled shifts as part of the strike, and others will refuse to fill in for them, organizers say. They hope this will have a “significant impact” on a company that promises delivery of food and goods in just half an hour.
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[Link] California Man in 4-Day Standoff With Abandoned Amazon Truck in Driveway
Read: 16/11/2021 www.vice.com
The man, who asked to be identified by his Twitter alias Captain Lou because he was worried his employer wouldn’t want him to beef with Amazon publicly, said his ordeal started when he ordered some Quilted Northern toilet paper from Amazon.
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[Link] Hundreds of HelloFresh Workers Are Unionizing in New Jersey
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, the union filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election at the HelloFresh distribution center in Newark. HelloFresh is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States. Its factory workers are also unionizing at a nearby facility in Totowa, New Jersey.
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[Link] Elaborate ‘CryptoEats’ Food Delivery Scam Steals $500,000 in Minutes
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
For the last week, a handful of UK-based celebrities have been talking about a new startup, called “CryptoEats,” that would compete against UberEats by allowing customers to pay for food delivery in cryptocurrency.
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[Link] Delivery Apps to 'Vigorously Fight' to Take More Money From Struggling Restaurants
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
On Thursday, the New York City Council made permanent a cap on delivery commissions extracted by third-party delivery apps. The measure was originally passed during the pandemic as emergency relief for restaurants struggling to stay open as apps continued to take commissions of up to 30 percent.
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[Link] Uber, Lyft Introduce Prop 22 Clone to Undermine Labor Law In Massachusetts
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s nearly been a year since Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates wrote Proposition 22—a ballot measure that exempted them from following California labor laws—and spent $220 million on a deceptive campaign to pass it.
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[Link] Get ready to share pavements with stocky little delivery bots
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
Ioanna is a writer at SHIFT. She likes the transition from old to modern, and she's all about shifting perspectives.
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