New Orleans The reports of pandemic deaths of essential workers are harrowing. A lot of attention, deservedly, has been given to healthcare workers of all kinds who are living and breathing the virus in emergency rooms and intensive care units. Others are also falling like flies. A South Dakota Smithfield meatpacking plant was shut …
Category: Citizen Wealth
App Delivery as Part of the “Care” Industry
New Orleans I’m scratching my head trying to figure out what kind of sand platform applications around food delivery are built on. The workers are hardly paid, precarious and unhappy. The restaurants are complaining and organizing for protection in some cities, and trying to figure out how to make money on the promise of …
Delivery Driver Unions and Resistance are Growing
New Orleans Traveling in other cities both in the United States and around the world, it sometimes seems like food delivery workers are everywhere on either scooters or bicycles. The soft box on their backs or the hard one behind their seats to hold containers of food and keep it all warm until they …