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DoorDash Glitch Gives Workers Thousands of Dollars, Then Takes It Away
"I was almost in tears. I thought I was going to have to work for two months for free."
NYC Gig Workers Are Organizing Against Rampant E-Bike Theft and Assault
On Wednesday, more than 1,000 New York City e-bike delivery workers, known as Los Deliveristas Unidos, protested against working conditions on DoorDash, GrubHub, and Postmates.
DoorDash Is Pushing Drivers to Deliver More With a $50K Sweepstakes
DoorDash will offer ten lucky drivers a cash prize for making deliveries in what one worker's rights group called "Hunger Games as a business model."
The Mysterious Case of the F*cking Good Pizza
A quest to find the origin of a pizza place led me down a rabbit hole of clickbait restaurants—with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick's new company at the end.
Someone Made a 'Fake' DoorDash Order to Steal Driver's Car With Baby Inside
Drivers working quickly, at odd hours, and with children, leave their vehicles on to shave seconds. Now, someone used that to steal a car.
Two Paths to Reining In Gig Companies Are Going Head-to-Head in Connecticut
As companies like Uber seek to undermine labor rights nationwide, Connecticut is becoming a battleground for potential solutions.
Organized DoorDash Drivers’ #DeclineNow Strategy Is Driving Up Their Pay
Using a loophole in an old Android version of DoorDash, more than 26,000 DoorDash drivers are collectively declining cheap orders to make more money on the platform.
A DoorDash Driver's Van Was Stolen With His Two Kids Inside
Gig workers are forced into impossible situations because they don't have access to child care.
‘Ethical’ Instacart Alternative Shut Down Facebook Group Where Workers Protested Pay Changes
Workers say Dumpling, a grocery delivery platform with a promising worker-friendly business model, misled them about how much autonomy and control they'd have on the platform.
Seamless Is Screwing Delivery Drivers on Tips After Prop 22
Proposition 22 seems to be doing what gig companies like Grubhub promised it wouldn’t: raising prices and cutting driver earnings.
Gig Workers Are Being Excluded From Vaccine Priority List
A group of New York senators are demanding that ride-share and food delivery workers be added to a vaccine priority list that includes "essential workers" but excludes gig workers.
Gig Workers Must Opt Out of Arbitration to Enforce Prop 22 Benefits, Rights Group Says
Proposition 22 in California offers some benefits to workers, but Rideshare Drivers United says Terms of Service forcing private arbitration will prevent them from being enforced.