Delivery industry players agree on driver safety push
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Unions, the NSW government and gig economy companies will for the first time develop a joint safety plan for the industry following the spate of deaths of food delivery riders.
The Transport Workers Union, road safety organisations and delivery giants including Uber met on Thursday to begin work on the project, a day after the NSW government announced it would start preparing a workers compensation scheme for the industry in the new year.
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The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to return the New York metropolitan area to the worst days of the spring, when hospitals overflowed and thousands lost their lives. The disease is once again positioned to take the lives of thousands of working people in the coming weeks and months. Hundreds of thousands more will be impacted by the deaths of loved ones and extended recoveries for those who survive.
Cleaning New York Subways, Immigrant Workers Find Abuse
Working for the MTAâs hired contractors, an immigrant workforce is exploited and harassed.
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Cleaning subway trains is one of the few jobs available to immigrant New Yorkers out of work at the height of the pandemic.
âGood morning Mrs. LucÃa, I wanted to let you know that I disagree with you denying me the opportunity to work, knowing that weâre in a pandemic, because I didnât play along and flirt with the supervisor,â texted train cleaner Claudia Barbosa (in Spanish) to her supervisor at NV Maintenance, one of the 21 third-party contractors hired by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to clean and disinfect New York Cityâs subways during the COVID-19 pandemic. Barbosa had to wait a month to collect her last check. She says her supervisor didnât give it to her until she showed up in person at the 96th Street and Second Avenue station and spoke to MTA staff
A gay small business owner is one step closer to a seat on the powerful San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency s board after a hearing Monday by the Board of Supervisors rules committee.
Emanuel Manny Yekutiel s nomination was approved 3-0 during the December 14 remote hearing. The committee also unanimously recommended disability rights advocate Fiona Hinze to another seat on the SFMTA board. Mayor London Breed nominated both Yekutiel and Hinze.
Yekutiel owns the eponymously named cafe and event space at 16th and Valencia streets in the Mission district. He currently serves on the San Francisco Small Business Commission, a seat he will resign if approved for the SFMTA board.
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