[thoraway1010]

Wow - this is big news IF TRUE.

Shipt has something like 100k shoppers, the fact that they are going on strike is HUGE - it's so hard to organize a group of 100,000.

One thing that I think is better about shipt vs uber etc. YOU get to pick which orders to take I think. Rush hour traffic across down for a $10 order? Forget it.

Here's an account from a shipt shopper:

"After 4 orders (remember, this is about 4 to five hours of work), I have made a total of $110.55. If you do the math, that’s averaging out to be $27.63 per order. Now, you also have to take into consideration gas and wear and tear on your car, but I think I may have driven a total of 50 miles between these four orders. And if you don’t want to deliver to a place far away, you don’t have to. You get to pick which orders you want to accept."

Has Shipt announced any fallback planes when their 100K shoppers walk? Will be interesting to see how they handle this - it may be the largest strike by any workgroup in a long time!

My only worry is sometimes the headlines turn out to be basically total lies. Hopefully that is not the case here. ie, they write a headline saying shipt shoppers are striking, but it turns out to be actually 0.5% of shipt shoppers.

[HaloZero]

I highly highly doubt that all 100,000 workers are striking. The article mentions that workers will strike and that it's being organized by Gig Workers Collective but I haven't ever found anyone indicating how many people actually participated in these strikes (Instacart workers recently did one)

[thoraway1010]

It's says target gig workers will strike - no qualification or limitation whatsoever.

When fords union employees went on strike, they virtually all were on strike as well.

Is the headline really 99.5% of target gig workers do not go on strike? 0.5% go on strike? That's a BIG difference then everyone walking. They should at least do a follow-up with how many people quit or struck (50,000 or whatever).

[willcipriano]

This appears to be the third time they have gone on strike: "The walkout marks the third time Shipt gig workers have gone on strike."

[Shivetya]

Their example employee was just odd, lost 30% of their wages and that was between $500 and $700 each week? A call center has better wages? Assuming 30% then we are talking about $1500+ a week which on a forty hour week is $37.50 and hour and now only down to $25 an hour. Pretty good pay a no skill job.

Now now this is my claiming this app isn't playing games here but some of that can come down to over paying to get people on board and then pulling back once they realized they started out far to rich to sustain.

We really need a better source of income that was being earned to give the article any credence.

[barbecue_sauce]

A call center is a much worse job.