Shipt workers are striking today, July 15, and they need our urgent support (petition)

Add your name to support frontline workers employed by Target's Shipt delivery service.

Shipt workers are striking today, July 15, and they need our urgent support.

Dear MoveOn member,

Shipt, Target's grocery delivery service, has been terrible about supporting its frontline workers, who are risking their health every day. And to make matters worse, Shipt just announced that it will switch to a new, secret pay model, which workers say will hurt their already low earnings.¹ 

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how people shop for groceries, with many consumers now relying on home delivery services.

Shipt saw sales shoot up more than 300% in the first quarter of this year from a year earlier.² The company nearly doubled the number of workers to accommodate demand.³

But Shipt service workers are being treated worse than Target store workers, even though they all work for the Target Corporation. Shipt told its workers that masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer would be available for them at any Target, but at some locations, workers were told that the masks were intended only for Target employees, not Shipt workers.⁴ And Shipt workers don't get the same paid family and medical leave benefits that Target employees get or the same workplace protections. 

Will you add your name to call on Target's delivery service, Shipt, to pay its workers fair wages and provide workplace safeguards during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Shipt launched a new algorithmic pay scale to a dozen new markets today, July 15, and has made it clear that the scale will eventually be implemented nationwide. The new system lets Shipt discretely tweak pay, lower and lower, whenever it wants to. Shipt workers warn that through this secret system, Shipt can condition its workers to expect less and less.⁵

Shipt workers are striking today and saying, "We are done. We are tired. We are doing real and physically dangerous and demanding work. We deserve fair and transparent pay. But instead of being open, honest, and fair, Shipt's focus is on silencing us and attempting to leave us entirely unprotected during a pandemic."⁶

Many of us have used home delivery services during the coronavirus crisis, and even if Shipt wasn't one of the services you used, you know how hard delivery people are working and what an invaluable service they're providing to us right now, when we need them. Right now, Shipt workers really need us: Click here to add your name to this petition, and then share the petition with others.

Thanks!

–Apollo Gonzales, PL+US

Sources:

1. "Target's Gig Workers Will Strike to Protest Switch to Algorithmic Pay Model," Vice, July 11, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/141101?t=11&akid=268810%2E10220574%2EjXvYtX

2. "The Online Grocery Boom Reveals a Few Big Winners," The Washington Post, June 16, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/141090?t=13&akid=268810%2E10220574%2EjXvYtX

3. "In a Flood of New Demand, Shipt Is Letting Gig Workers Drown," Gizmodo, April 12, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/141091?t=15&akid=268810%2E10220574%2EjXvYtX

4. "Reopening Prompts New Agitation Over Workers, Virus Exposure," The New York Times, May 12, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/141100?t=17&akid=268810%2E10220574%2EjXvYtX

5. "Shipt Walkoff: July 15th," Shipt Shoppers, July 11, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/141102?t=19&akid=268810%2E10220574%2EjXvYtX

6. Ibid.

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