When Mayor Adams and city leaders unveiled the nation’s first proposed minimum pay rate for food delivery workers last year, they made a bold promise: New York would finally deliver economic stability for an “essential” workforce.
“This proposed minimum pay rate would help guarantee delivery workers a more dignified pay and rightfully establish pay equity with other workers who earn a minimum wage,” said Vilda Vera Mayuga, the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCPW) commissioner, in November.
The city was required by Local Law 115 of 2021 to implement a minimum pay rate for delivery workers — or “deliveristas” — by Jan. 1, 2023.
Months later, deliveristas still aren’t guaranteed a minimum pay. The city and DCWP missed the deadline to enact the pay rate they proposed. Meanwhile, Uber Eats, DoorDash, and GrubHub — all multi-billion dollar app-based companies — continue to mount a full court press against the minimum pay for delivery workers. They have even barraged workers with messages, pushing misleading information and using scare tactics to sow confusion about the proposed minimum pay rate.
Delivery workers were essential during the pandemic. They worked countless hours and braved rain, snow and extreme flooding while being the targets of street crimes, evading dangerous traffic, and spending hundreds on the equipment they rely on to do their jobs.
Today, New York delivery workers take home $11 an hour after tips. Some spend close to $17,000 a year on...
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