Amazon Flex delivery drivers tell of insecurity, low pay and safety concerns in 'uber for parcels' scheme

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Twisted Amazon delivery driver arrested in California for sexually assaulting teen girl on the job

A sick Amazon delivery driver has been accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl and woman while on the job. Fernando Barreto-Hernandez, 24, of Los Angeles, California was arrested on January 24 for allegedly assaulting the minor in LA back in December 2024 Just three days before his arrest, he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman while he was on the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump taps Amazon exec who oversaw safety violations to lead workplace safety agency

Raw Story

This week, President Donald Trump announced that he was nominating Amazon executive David Keeling to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The New Republic reported recently that Keeling — whose LinkedIn profile shows him holding top safety roles at both United Parcel Service and Amazon since 2018 — has had numerous OSHA violations happen on his watch. NBC News …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Amazon to pay nearly $4M to settle lawsuit alleging it took tips from drivers

Associated Press

Amazon has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle charges that the e-commerce company subsidized its labor costs by taking tips its delivery drivers received from customers, District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb said Friday. In 2022, the office of DC’s attorney general at the time followed up with a lawsuit alleging Amazon violated the District’s consumer …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ride-hailing platform Lyft ties up with Anthropic for AI-powered customer care

The Hindu

Lyft said on Thursday it has tied up with Amazon and Alphabet-backed startup Anthropic to roll out artificial intelligence tools for the ride-hailing platform's customer care operations. The company said it has been using Anthropic's Claude AI model, through Amazon's Bedrock generative AI platform, which has helped reduce the average customer service resolution time by 87% and is resolving thousands …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Burkhe wali ko bewakuf…’: Uber driver refuses to switch on AC, drops woman off in middle of road

Hindustan Times

A woman in Pune has documented her unpleasant experience with an Uber driver who refused to switch on the AC for her, claiming that only Premier rides get the air conditioning facility. A woman claimed that the Uber driver dropped her off mid-journey after refusing to switch on the AC In an Instagram video she shared online, Shaikh can be …

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3 months ago

‘Stressed’ Amazon driver dumps 80 packages on Massachusetts road

The Independent

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3 months ago

Walmart sued by US watchdog for opening 1 million illegal accounts, making false promises to delivery drivers

Live Mint

Walmart Inc and its financial technology partner, Branch Messenger Inc, are facing allegations from the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over claims that they opened costly bank accounts for delivery drivers without their consent, as per Bloomberg. In a lawsuit filed Monday in Minnesota federal court, the CFPB accused the companies of requiring drivers in Walmart's Spark Driver programme to …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Amazon workers have gone on strike

NPR

Amazon workers have gone on strike Some Amazon drivers held small protests this week to highlight conditions they say need to be improved and urged other drivers to join the teamsters union. For its part, Amazon says it has a heat mitigation policy that provides drivers with things like a cooler, sunscreen and electrolyte powder. SIMON: Now, Marlon, Amazon says …

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55 years, 2 months ago

Amazon Warehouse Workers Across US Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush

Wired

“These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and respect for the people who make their obscene profits possible,” Teamsters general president Sean M. O’Brien said in a public statement. In a press release published with the earnings report, Amazon president and CEO Andy Jassy said the company was “excited about what we have in store for customers” for …

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3 months, 1 week ago

'Tired of Amazon's lies,' California Teamsters join strike threat

Raw Story

Amazon faces a growing threat of a major walkout in the United States, with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announcing Tuesday that workers at four of the online retail giant's Southern California facilities have "overwhelmingly" voted to authorize strikes, joining employees at sites in Illinois and New York City. The union said Tuesday that "after ignoring a December 15 deadline …

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4 months ago

Uber Eats to no longer use freelancers as deliverers, only temporary workers

NL Times

Uber Eats will no longer use freelancers as meal deliverers. Uber Eats broke the news to its thousands of freelance delivery workers on Wednesday, the Telegraaf reports. They have often invested a lot of money into a car and also have to arrange a taxi license, among other things.” Last year, the American tech company experimented with employment agencies Adecco …

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5 months ago

How Evri became the UK’s most hated delivery company

The Independent

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55 years, 2 months ago

The Sneaky Tactic That Makes Uber and Lyft Worse for Everyone

Slate

Last year, former U.S. On Tuesday, which was Blind Americans Equality Day, the National Federation of the Blind held a rally at the San Francisco headquarters of Uber and Lyft to highlight this persistent discrimination and to call for change, with participants accompanied by guide dogs demanding that companies “Respect Our Right to Ride.” The two corporations have been sued …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

'I Will Not Go Back': Amazon Workers Fight Andy Jassy's RTO Mandate With Mass Job Applications

ABP News

Amazon's recent directive requiring employees to return to the office five days a week has sparked frustration and uncertainty among its workforce. Several Amazon employees told Fortune they are actively seeking new opportunities following the RTO mandate. CEO Andy Jassy has repeatedly stressed that fully remote work is “not going to work out” for employees at Amazon, and some experts …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Amazon workers fume at tech giant for scrapping remote work

The Independent

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Amazon boosts pay for subcontracted delivery drivers amid union pressure

Associated Press

Amazon is giving another pay boost to its subcontracted delivery drivers in the U.S. amid growing union pressure. Drivers who work with Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners, or DSPs, will earn an average of nearly $22 per hour, a 7% bump from the previous average of $20.50, the company said Thursday. Last week, a National Labor Relations Board prosecutor in Atlanta …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Amazon Is 'Joint Employer' Of Delivery Drivers, Labor Board Says

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Labor prosecutors are challenging Amazon’s long-running claim that it doesn’t employ the massive network of drivers who deliver its packages across the country. A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board has determined that Amazon is really a “joint employer” alongside one of its delivery contractors, an agency spokesperson said Thursday. The union praised the NLRB …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Delivery drivers at third-party company in Palmdale are Amazon employees, NLRB finds

LA Times

Johnathon Ervin, owner of Battle-Tested Strategies, a logistics company that delivered Amazon products, inspects a vehicle at Amazon’s Palmdale facility in May 2023. Workers at a company that delivered packages for Amazon are considered employees of the e-commerce giant, the National Labor Relations Board said Thursday, rejecting Amazon’s claim that it is not responsible for the subcontractor’s staff. “Amazon drivers …

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8 months ago

Uber and Lyft drivers remain independent contractors in California Supreme Court ruling

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that app-based ride-hailing and delivery services like Uber and Lyft can continue treating their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. The ruling upholds a voter-approved law passed in 2020 that said drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft are independent contractors and are not entitled to benefits like overtime pay, …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

Failed Australian rideshare app accuses Uber of illegally operating service to gain unfair advantage

The Independent

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1 year ago

Wisconsin Supreme Court lets ruling stand that declared Amazon drivers to be employees

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower court ruling that declared some delivery drivers for Amazon were employees as the state argued, not independent contractors as the online retail giant contended. Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, in a concurring decision, said the reason the court dismissed the case was that further review “would not serve …

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1 year ago

Uber pays $178 million to end legal fight with Australian taxi drivers

The Independent

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1 year, 1 month ago

Uber, Lyft strikes: Thousands of drivers across LA and Las Vegas walk out on Valentine’s Day

The Independent

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1 year, 1 month ago

Date night strike: Thousands of US, UK delivery, ride-hailing drivers stop work on Valentine’s Day

Associated Press

Thousands of ride-hailing and delivery workers in the U.S. and the U.K. went on strike on Valentine’s Day, calling for higher pay and other changes to their working conditions. The group Delivery Job U.K., which called for the walkout, said on Instagram that the strike was “a crucial opportunity to be seen and heard by society.” Of eight delivery drivers …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UK Deliveroo and UberEats drivers to strike on Valentine’s Day

The Independent

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1 year, 2 months ago

Senators Hammer Amazon For ‘Union-Busting’ With Delivery Drivers

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING A bipartisan group of U.S. senators asked Amazon on Wednesday to provide them with information regarding the company’s delivery network and its response to union organizing — the latest instance of lawmakers putting heat on the retail giant over its labor practices. In a letter, the lawmakers accused Amazon of using a subcontracting arrangement to “avoid legal …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Amazon driver places customer’s package in a tree to protect from ‘porch pirates’

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1 year, 3 months ago

The Pilots Delivering Your Amazon Packages Are Ready to Strike

Wired

Amazon deliveries could be headed for some turbulence in the new year. Pilots for US-based Air Transport International, a cargo airline that ferries Amazon packages from its fulfillment centers to airports nearer to its customers, voted to authorize a strike last month. Amazon outsources the operation of its air service, which it calls Amazon Air, to a small network of …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Cyber Monday: Amazon reaches agreement with Spanish workers over walkouts

Hindustan Times

Amazon reached an agreement with most of its workers in Spain on Monday, avoiding the full impact of a planned one-hour strike per shift on one of the busiest online shopping days of the year, according to local union group CCOO and the company. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo Around 20,000 warehouse and delivery workers at Amazon's Spanish unit had been urged …

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1 year, 4 months ago

A disabled warehouse worker says he was bullied and abused. A jury ordered to Amazon to pay him $1.2 million

LA Times

People work in the Amazon Fulfillment Center in San Bernardino. A jury awarded the worker, Michael Kopp, $1.2 million earlier this month after finding that Amazon intentionally inflicted emotional distress on the former employee when its human resources department failed to stop the harassment. Kopp, who has Asperger’s and dyslexia, was hired as a “warehouse associate” at Amazon’s Fulfillment Center …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Delivery agents of Swiggy, Zomato, cab drivers of Ola, Uber on strike today in Pune. Here's why

Hindustan Times

Cab and auto rickshaw drivers including those of Ola, Uber, delivery personnel working for firms including Swiggy, Zomato, Urban company in Maharashtra's Pune are observing a strike on Wednesday demanding organised labour laws in a bid to secure their rights. The demands, put forth by the committee ‘Indian Gig Workers Front’, include a demand from the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government …

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55 years, 2 months ago

Amazon hasn’t ordered delivery drivers to pull over during Oct. 4 FEMA alert test

Associated Press

CLAIM: Amazon has told delivery workers to stop driving for one hour during the Oct. 4 test of the national emergency alert system because phones and other electronic devices will be inoperable. THE FACTS: Social media users are continuing to spread wildly false claims about this week’s test of the national emergency alert system. “The national test alert, or any …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Amazon says its increasing pay for contracted delivery drivers

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Amazon says it’s boosting pay for contracted drivers who deliver millions of packages to customers every day. The company announced at a conference for delivery firms this week that it will invest $440 million over the next year to increase pay rates for drivers. Over the past five years, Amazon says 3,500 firms have signed up for …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Teamsters add their heft to dozens of Amazon delivery drivers picketing around the country

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The Teamsters flexed their muscles during contract negotiations with UPS last month, securing pay hikes for drivers and scoring other wins. During speeches and interviews in recent months, Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien has aired his belief that a strong UPS contract would also bolster the union’s organizing prospects at Amazon, where the sole labor group — …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Akshay came to Australia to support his family. He died on the job while delivering food

ABC

Akshay Doultani always dreamed big. NSW Industrial Relations Minister Sophie Cotsis said the government was now working on a election pledge to extend industrial relations protections, including workers compensation, to those in the gig economy. "This death is tragic and it highlights the need for greater protections for our gig workers who are often vulnerable to workplace hazards," Ms Cotsis …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Three months ago they unionized. Now a strike by Amazon contract drivers is heating up

LA Times

Amazon drivers, joined by Teamsters members and members of several social justice groups, picket in front of the Amazon warehouse in San Bernardino on July 13. Two days after Amazon Prime Day, a group of over 60 Palmdale Amazon contract drivers, backed by Teamsters and community members, picketed outside Amazon’s ONT 5 warehouse, blocking trucks from entering or leaving the …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Top Tech News June 19 Realme Secretly Collecting User Data Cheaper Uber Rides For Amazon Prime Members And More HR Professionals Are Using ChatGPT For Crafting Termination Letters

ABP News

Realme Collecting Personal User Data? Realme's data collection practices came under the scanner after being highlighted by a renowned Twitter user named Rishi Bagree, who tweeted about the alleged data collection by Realme via a feature on the handset that states that it will collect device and usage statistics, along with personal information such as calendar events, SMS and call …

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1 year, 11 months ago

People rally around DoorDash driver who was removed from app after confronting customer

The Independent

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1 year, 11 months ago

Amazon contract drivers in Palmdale join the Teamsters union

LA Times

More than 80 contract drivers and dispatchers who handle deliveries for Amazon Inc. have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, marking the labor movement’s latest attempt to gain a foothold in the company’s e-commerce empire. “Amazon workers are joining the Teamsters to demand more from this company, including good wages, safe working conditions and respect,” said Randy Korgan, Teamsters Amazon …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Lyft gears up to make 'significant' layoffs under new CEO

The Independent

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2 years, 1 month ago

Amazon argues for dismissal of lawsuit brought by delivery drivers

The Independent

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2 years, 1 month ago

Spanish court: Amazon violated labor law with delivery app

The Independent

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2 years, 2 months ago

Bus firm offering ‘guaranteed’ interviews for Amazon staff who could lose jobs

The Independent

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2 years, 2 months ago

Lost my father and now job: Indian software engineer who worked at Amazon for 5 years gets laid off

India Today

Amazon has begun layoffs globally, including India. As India Today Tech previously reported, the company has started informing impacted employees through email, and the process is said to go on for a couple of more days. Impacted by ongoing Amazon layoffs, Sharma tried to motivate hundreds of other employees through the post and urged everyone to stay positive. India Today …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Passenger sues Southwest for failing to provide ‘prompt refunds’ amid December chaos

The Independent

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2 years, 3 months ago

Best of 2022 | I got hooked on Uber Eats. Not as a customer — as a delivery driver

Salon

This essay was originally published in Salon on September 10, 2022. Despite sending out tons of resumes and constantly hearing about how "everyone's hiring right now," I'd gotten only a handful of interviews and no offers. I'd get just enough delivery information — first names, last initials and addresses — that, combined with Googling, I could concoct some pretty tasty …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Amazon launched a driver tipping promotion on the same day it got sued over tip fraud

NPR

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2 years, 4 months ago

Amazon tells employees in layoff note, some roles will be no longer required: Read full text

India Today

Amazon on Wednesday confirmed laying off thousands of employees. If failed to do so, Amazon will offer a package that includes a separation payment, transitional benefits, and external job placement support. Here is full note by Dave Limp, Senior Vice President of Devices and Services in Amazon: ----- Folks, At our last Town Hall in July, I talked a bit …

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