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  • Zomato Delivery Agents Launch Indefinite Strike in Thiruvananthapuram
    Abhivad
    Zomato Delivery Agents Launch Indefinite Strike in Thiruvananthapuram
    15 Mar 2022
    Thiruvananthapuram: Online food delivery company Zomato's distribution agents in Thiruvananthapuram have started an indefinite strike demanding fair wages and employee benefits.
  • app based wokers.
    Sandip Chakraborty
    WB: App-Based Delivery Workers Seek Govt Intervention on Employment Conditions
    11 Mar 2022
    Trade union organisers find workers in the gig economy, unlike those in other sectors, extremely eager to form unions, signalling at their particularly depraved working conditions.
  • Gig Workers
    The Leaflet
    The Empty Promise of Social Security to Gig Workers
    06 Feb 2022
    In September last year, the Indian Federation of App Based Transport Workers [IFAT], a workers’ organisation consisting largely of gig transport workers, 
  • Protest Called Off But Service Professionals at Urban Company Say Fight Will Continue
    Ronak Chhabra
    Protest Called Off But Service Professionals at Urban Company Say Fight Will Continue
    24 Dec 2021
    Aggrieved over the introduction of a new subscription plan which is feared to impact the monthly earnings of the working women, they began a demonstration at gig platform’s Gurugram office earlier…
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    If we Don’t, Nobody Else Will’: How Delivery Workers Organising Themselves in NYC
    28 Oct 2021
    On one hand, delivery workers are forming night guard teams to maintain vigil in key places where assaults happen, and on the other, they are lobbying with the city council to pass legislation.
  • Food delivery agents
    Ronak Chhabra
    Union Launches Social Media Training for Delivery Workers
    12 Aug 2021
    The Union, in a press statement on Wednesday, said that the screenshots circulating on Twitter clearly expose the work condition of food delivery workers.
  • Twelve of India’s most successful technology-based startups were ranked on the overall working conditions for their drivers and delivery persons. The results indicate they do not care much about their workers.
    Taroa Zuñiga Silva
    Why Delivery Workers Across the Planet Are Rising Up Against Exploitation
    29 Apr 2021
    Even before the pandemic crisis, food delivery companies have seen their profits skyrocket while their so-called ‘self-employed’ workers suffer rights violations and were banned from unionising.
  • Who must an effective social security programme in India target?
    Nantoo Banerjee
    Who Must an Effective Social Security Programme in India Target?
    02 Apr 2021
    An effective program must focus on individual bank depositors, gig economy workers, and senior citizens.
  • Survey Reveals App Drivers’ Misery:
    Ronak Chhabra
    Survey Reveals App Drivers’ Misery: ‘60% Report Back Problems, 90% Sleep Deprived’
    26 Aug 2020
    Nearly half of the surveyed drivers, the study found, are driving customers in their vehicle for close to 20 hours a day.
  • Anganwadi and ASHA workers
    Newsclick Report
    ‘Code on Social Security’ Omits Anganwadi, ASHAs as ‘Employees’, Unlike in Earlier Drafts
    11 Aug 2020
    Noting many omissions and ambiguities, such as on gig workers, the Standing Committee on Labour has called for a relook at the proposed Code, subsuming 9 labour Acts, to make it more ‘dynamic’.
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