Vice: 'It Feels Horrible': Amazon Workers Delivered Packages During Destructive Tropical Storm https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3akp3n/it-feels-horrible-amazon-workers-delivered-packages-during-destructive-tropical-storm #hurricaneidalia #deliverydrivers #amazonworkers #Hurricane #packages #amazon

Vice: 'It Feels Horrible': Amazon Workers Delivered Packages During Destructive Tropical Storm https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3akp3n/it-feels-horrible-amazon-workers-delivered-packages-during-destructive-tropical-storm #hurricaneidalia #deliverydrivers #amazonworkers #Hurricane #packages #amazon

Vice: 'It Feels Horrible': Amazon Workers Delivered Packages During Destructive Tropical Storm https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3akp3n/it-feels-horrible-amazon-workers-delivered-packages-during-destructive-tropical-storm #hurricaneidalia #deliverydrivers #amazonworkers #Hurricane #packages #amazon

During Some of #Hottest Months in History, Millions of App #DeliveryDrivers Are Feeling the Strain
Around 4M people in US work as #contractors for app services like #DoorDash delivering pizzas, salads and pad thai. Those in areas with #extremeheat are taking new measures to keep working through it. Some days, delivery drivers walk 20 minutes or climb four floors of stairs in a 116-heat index just to deliver one order.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15082023/doordash-delivery-workers-extreme-heat/ #heatwave #globalwarming #climatechange #climatecrisis

#DeliveryDrivers want protection against #heat. But it's an uphill battle...
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/20/1188282961/delivery-drivers-want-protection-against-heat-but-its-an-uphill-battle
"#OSHA, the federal agency that oversees workplace safety, has recommendations for how employers should handle heat – but it's still in the process of drafting heat-specific worker protections."

#AmazonDrivers Are Actually Just "Drivers Delivering for Amazon," #Amazon Says
Striking drivers, unionized with the International Brotherhood of #Teamsters, Amazon's argument is that actual #deliverydrivers are employed by 3rd-party #delivery companies, known as delivery service partners (DSP) , though they work in Amazon facilities to deliver Amazon packages, and how they work, when, and how much they get paid is largely determined by terms Amazon sets with the DSP.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaa4m/amazon-drivers-are-actually-just-drivers-delivering-for-amazon-amazon-says

#Amazon #DeliveryDrivers Walk Out in First-Ever Driver #Strike
The drivers #unionized with the #Teamsters in late April, and are on strike to demand that Amazon come to the bargaining table. https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mm5x/amazon-delivery-drivers-walk-out-in-first-ever-driver-strike #union #AmazonDelivery

This is “The Site” one of the most entertaining things that have had the privilege of viewing in quite some time. I have just been watching a delivery driver using a robot arm to unload items for “The Site” and do it with such precision that I believe that they may be able to perform surgery utilising a robotic arm - just fabulous!

#DeliveryDrivers

#Construction

#RaisingLondonCircuit

#RoboticSurgery

Attacks on #deliverydrivers add fears among #gigworkers
https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/attacks-on-delivery-drivers-add-fears-among-gig-workers/article_79bfdcac-e9b4-11ed-9a81-bb20a4b21dc3.html

Monday A.M.: Teamsters announce 'historic first' unionization vote and contract deal for a few dozen California-based Amazon delivery drivers, who are directly employed by delivery service partners, or DSPs
Monday P.M.: Amazon tells me it terminated the DSP's contract 'well before' union announcement

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-disputes-delivery-drivers-unionization-says-it-terminated-contract-with-third-party-company-ca93d39

#amazon #drivers #deliverydrivers #labor #unions

Drivers in California have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, in one of the first driver-specific unionization efforts in the company.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5ygaw/a-group-of-amazon-drivers-just-joined-one-of-the-biggest-unions-in-the-us
#amazon #Amazonlaborunion #Teamsters #deliverydrivers #Amazondeliverydrivers #ups #Heat #Union #workersrights

@reuters

Classic #DriftCar gonna drift.jp with an huuuuge order of firm soy. #InitialD #drifting #japan #TwistyRoads.jp #DeliveryDrivers

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385426/

After lying on the floor trying to lever a parcel away from the front door. So that I can open the door.

I think all delivery drivers should be fired and replaced with drones. Including Amazon delivery drivers.

#firedeliverydrivers #usedrones #deliverydrivers #delivery

3/ What does this mean, in context of #Damar specifically? It means that as Americans we do a poor job of caring about things unless they are prevalent in our media. The #NFL needs to do better, but there is much greater harm happening behind the scenes. Consider #deliverydrivers. There were 83 workplace fatalities for “drivers/sales workers” in 2019. 23 were homicide/suicide, but the other 60 were not.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/fatal-injuries-at-a-5-year-high-for-driver-sales-workers-in-2019.htm

So Ocado sent me a questionnaire rating my recent #DeliveryDrivers. Any company using delivery folks - ANY - will find they their drivers are the absolute best at everything, I could never have dreamed of receiving such wonderful service, etc. The actual experience doesn’t matter. Any attempt to control/evaluate/pressure these people who have a hard, stressful, underpaid job must be sabotaged to the best of our ability.

eicker.news #technews »#RingCameras Are Being Used to #Control and #Surveil Overworked #DeliveryWorkers: A report interviewed #doorbellcamera users and #deliverydrivers to understand how #surveillance is affecting both, for the worse.« https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8dx4/ring-cameras-are-being-used-to-control-and-surveil-overworked-delivery-workers