Posted on 03/27/2020 7:11:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If you’ve been using Instacart to do your grocery shopping during coronavirus isolation, you may have to look elsewhere next week: Instacart workers have announced that they are going on a massive nationwide strike starting Monday. Per Vice, beginning March 30, workers will refuse to accept orders until Instacart concedes to a list of terms regarding coronavirus safety and sick leave.
Instacart shoppers, who are braving stores amid stay-at-home orders and often delivering food to sick people in quarantine, have been hailed as “household heroes” by the company during the crisis. Last week, Instacart said it was hiring an additional 300,000 workers to meet the huge spike in demand for shoppers as more users are are complying with stay-at-home orders and not leaving the house.
But current employees, who are gig workers rather than full-time, say they don’t have the adequate protection and support they need to continue shopping and deliveries as cases of coronavirus rise across the country. As of now, Instacart offers up to two weeks of paid sick leave, but only if workers test positive for the coronavirus, despite the fact that it’s still very difficult to get tested in the United States without severe symptoms. And that policy only lasts until April 8; in New York, for example, experts have said that the number of cases may not peak until weeks later.
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The wait on Instacart is now 5-7 days. Instacart and other delivery services will likely never make more money than now.
Last I checked by me its weeks for a delivery.
I smell a rat.
Try no job at all dipshits
Can Shipt be far behind?
And yes, the Democrats did that through Assembly Bill 5.
Very bad optics kids ... but sometimes optics isn’t optics ... sometimes it’s just your character.
It’s 5 days for Fred Meyer too...local store is faster, but less organized. Costco uses instacart for their fresh, etc items...that’s gonna hurt...
They are gig economy workers. They are going to find out fast that they have no clout and no work.
The question is whether Instacart will blackball them.
Instacart probably can’t afford to unless it’s a small number. Which it may be.
Yet they are still doing it in California.
Probably not a great idea as millions enter unemployment
I was pondering how much of a killing I would make if I was still driving a route for Schwan’s Home Service.
Grocery store clerks should wear masks - and anyone entering the store (employees AND the public) should have their temp taken before being allowed in the store.
If a person has a temp they can sit in their car while a store employee buys their ‘list’...
Try no job at all dipshits
Yep. One of the first things consumers will cut in a recession will be delivery services like this.
Lorena Gonzalez has blood on her hands, yet she remains one of the most arrogant pols ever.
It took two days for my first Fred Meyer order on Tuesday. Yesterday I made another Fred Meyer order and it was ready for pickup five hours later.
“Instacart Workers Are Going on a Massive Strike Next Week”
probably not the best time to go on strike given that there’ll probably be a thousand applications to replace each striking driver ...
The day may come when I’m so old I’ll pay someone else to do my shopping, but for now I’ll go to store myself. I actually enjoy shopping, and I’m damn good at it.
(I bring Purell with me)
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