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City Council Bills Aim to Help Food Delivery Workers

Los Deliveristas Unidos worked with the councilmembers to plan the bills, which ensure workers can use restaurant bathrooms and receive tips.

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New York City Councilmembers Carlina Rivera (D-Manhattan), Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn) and Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn) are planning on proposing a legislative package that will answer some of the demands of Los Deliveristas Unidos, a collective of largely immigrant food delivery workers. The bills propose letting workers use restaurant bathrooms, limiting where they will deliver, boosting their wages and ensuring they receive tips. According to a survey by Worker Institute at Cornell University, 67 percent of delivery workers were denied bathroom use in the past year. THE CITY 

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