The mainland delivery staff organization “delivery riders Union” founder Xiong Yan suspected of being arrested for defending their rights, the industry set off a wave of protest voices. Rumored to be involved in the delivery platform “hungry” under the country’s millions of riders recently neglected to work, and even claim to strike in protest. Although the message was officially blocked, but informed sources said that some riders are prepared to launch a national delivery riders strike next Monday (8).
Xiong Yan, the head of the “Delivery Riders Union”, is still missing after he was arrested in Beijing late last month on suspicion of bullying riders on the online delivery platform “Hungry”.
Multiple sources revealed that from the beginning of this month, hungry Food ordering platform is abnormal, a large number of riders refused to take orders, so that a large number of orders are invalidated due to timeout. The news also shows that riders around the world are launching a slowdown to protest against the platform’s deduction of rider compensation, as well as the police arrest of rider rights organizer Xiong Yan expressed dissatisfaction.
Mr. Zhang told the station that “hungry” riders have discussed a nationwide rider strike starting next Monday (March 8) to protest against the platform’s oppressive behavior toward riders and also to show solidarity with rider rights organizer Xiong Yan. But so far, because the information is controlled, it is unclear how many delivery riders will respond.
Mr. Zhang said: Some of their riders’ group, and then mentioned that the March 8 to go on strike (work). But this will not affect the entire group of dispatchers, it should be a circle of their own they have such an idea. One is because from the New Year, hungry for that series of tumultuous operations, and then to the delivery alliance allies were taken away, many people this emotion will be more intense now. Microblogging and that public number has been the news issued, but generally do not stay much longer, after the issue, will soon be cleared.
Mr. Zhang also pointed out that the so-called take-out platforms, including hungry, while harsh control of delivery riders, while reluctant to assume the responsibility of employers, resulting in the current poor situation of delivery riders. At the same Time, the relatively loose state of the riders also makes the coordination of this strike action difficult.
Mr. Zhang said: delivery staff is a scattered labor bar, in fact, it is a lot of employees did not sign a contract directly with the hungry, although all wearing hungry clothes, but in fact it does not belong to the hungry employees. It is through a form of outsourcing, scattered to a variety of labor dispatch ah kind of company to recruit employees. In fact, this group is more difficult, such as working longer hours, and then, often by the platform to deduct income for various reasons, but the number of this group is still a lot, but generally people do not want to do this thing too long, many people take this as a transitional occupation.
Another person concerned about the incident, Hong Tao, also pointed out that Wednesday (3) has been more and more riders to join the idle, but the current information is severely blocked, the specific scale of the idle has not been grasped.
Hong Tao said: it should be yesterday, or Beijing. I know there is this thing, but it’s hard to say exactly. I saw that they sent an article, and that article should be disclosed. Now I can understand the content of that.
Beijing courier rider Mr. He revealed in the WeChat circle of friends, there are now more than ten groups of nearly 10,000 delivery workers, as long as half of them join the idle and strike, will affect the “hungry” operation. He himself has also quit the “hungry”, to switch to another delivery platform services, protest “hungry” in the Xiong Yan was arrested after also fallen on the well.
Our reporters have repeatedly called the “hungry” delivery platform headquarters in Shanghai, but many of the phones are not answered. So far, have not heard of official intervention in this strike crisis.
Specialized delivery service “delivery knight alliance” was established less than a year, the organizer Xiong Yan and a number of his friends, last month 25 was arrested by the Beijing police, but the police did not disclose the reason. Sources said he had revealed online that delivery riders were being bullied by the platform. Some labor activists believe that the large number of delivery riders organizing to defend their rights has caused official unease, and that the arrest of the organizers has led to a severe crackdown on civil rights groups.
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