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MajorAcer t1_izj14eq wrote

Reply to comment by _Maxolotl in Inside the Fight to Pay Food Delivery Workers $23 an Hour by jl2l

I would greatly prefer the food to be slightly more expensive if we could just get rid of tipping. It's ridiculous that I'm already paying for food and service, but am still expected to give up extra cash for no reason whatsoever - especially when it's before I even get the food so who knows how good the quality of service even is? And this is coming from someone who used to deliver for Uber Eats.

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_Maxolotl t1_izj6yj2 wrote

It would be great if we could force the delivery apps to classify riders as employees.

It'd also be great if the US hadn't made a bunch of laws in the 20th century that makes it much more difficult for workers to unionize and strike than it is in most of the rest of the free world.

I would be happy with deliveristas getting $23/hour for an 8 hour shift... if they got health benefits and death benefits, because it's one of the most dangerous jobs in NYC.

Until we can make that happen, I will fully support them if they manage to organize well enough to successfully boycott bad tippers. They gotta get what they need. It's the law's fault they don't have easy ways to do that.

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