Food delivery drivers in NYC slam customers who tipped badly after calling them ...
It's a cruel joke! NYC food delivery drivers slam customers for being stingy after wading low-wage workers waded through record floods - including one who got a $5 tip for an HOUR-LONG journey Food delivery workers rode their e-bikes all over the city in record flood - some up to 14 hours - and made minimum wage or less including tips One delivery food worker said he made $5, including the tip, for an hour-long journey from Brooklyn to Astoria and $115 - including tips - for 9.5 hours of work Another worker had a 14-hour day and made $277, including tips Johnny Miller, a freelance photographer, captured a video of a delivery food worker slogging through waist-high flood waters Brooklyn Miller posted the video on his 'Unequal Scenes' Twitter account, which was seen more 10.5 million times He's on a mission to find the worker and donate money he made from media proceeds to him
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A food delivery worker who braved the fatal record floods that swamped New York City roads got a measly $5 tip after making the hour-long trip from Brooklyn to Astoria.
'It’s a cruel joke. This is exactly why we protest and we organize — we need fair wages. These companies are getting richer and richer and we’re only earning $5 in these conditions,' Toño Solís, a member of the delivery worker labor collective Los Deliveristas Unidos, told The City.
In typical conditions, Grubhub delivery workers make a minimum wage of $2 per delivery - regardless of how much food is ordered - and it goes up depending on demand, The City reported.
On Wednesday, Solís said he made $115, including tips, for 9.5 hours of
