A running list of recent and ongoing strikes in response to increasingly precarious working conditions
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They also include grocery store and fast-food staff, delivery people, warehouse employees, and other food-service-related workers who have seen the demand for their labor skyrocket in the last few weeks, while working conditions get more dangerous. As online stores and delivery services like Amazon and Instacart have more users than ever, the conditions of workers who pack, ship, and deliver orders have also come under more scrutiny.
In response to increasingly precarious working conditions, workers are starting to strike. Either by walking out on the job, or by staging “sick outs,” in which they call-in sick en masse in protest of labor conditions, they are demanding improvements from more masks and hand sanitizer to better protections for seasonal employees. As more workers follow suit, we could see companies that have long profited from the gig economy forced to make some real reforms.
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