With Unions, Women App-Based Drivers Steer Toward a Fair Future

March 08, 2023 00:08:57
With Unions, Women App-Based Drivers Steer Toward a Fair Future
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With Unions, Women App-Based Drivers Steer Toward a Fair Future

Mar 08 2023 | 00:08:57

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Show Notes

  App-based drivers worldwide work long hours for often minimum wages while facing safety risks every day—and these issues are compounded for women platform workers, according to speakers at a Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW67) side event, Women Workers Organizing: Transforming the Gig Economy through Collective Action. “Not just in Colombia, but worldwide, women are always the ones that are the most vulnerable and paid the worst,” said Luz Myriam Fique Cardenas, president of Unión de Trabajadores de Plataformas (UNIDAPP) in Colombia. “We suffer harassment. We don’t have security in the streets because we’re women.” Cardenas joined three […]

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