App delivery drivers announce general strike.
Delivery app workers have announced a general strike for July 1st. They are demanding labor rights and access to protective equipment.
Sputnik News - Delivery app workers in Brazil will strike on July 1st. The workers are demanding labor rights and access to personal protective equipment to ensure greater protection against the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We're going to fight for our rights one by one. Food vouchers, health insurance. Then a guaranteed salary. Vacation, 13th-month salary. You're going to have to register our employment," said the movement's leader, Paulo Roberto da Silva Lima, nicknamed Galo. in interview to Rede Brasil Atual.
Delivery drivers are requesting paid leave for those who become infected. due to the coronavirus, insurance against theft, accidents and life insurance, in addition to the end of unjustified blocking on the apps.
Galo made a video that went viral about the work conditions of the class. After the repercussion, he created a undersigned in what demand for food and alcohol in gel For the workers. The initiative already has over 350 signatures.
"Everyone is at home isolating in quarantine, but we're out on the streets all day, battling to ensure delivery orders, putting our health and that of our families at risk. We're working abandoned to our own fate and without any prevention or protection measures from the delivery app companies we work with, such as Rappi, iFood, Loggi, Uber Eats, 99Food, and James," Galo states in the petition.