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Testimony by a Member of the Worker's Justice Project: Advocating for Worker Protections Amid Street Safety Measures

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4 min

A member of the Worker's Justice Project emphasizes the importance of coupling street safety initiatives with worker protections. Highlighting the need for education and holding apps accountable for providing essential devices, the speaker presses for protective measures that ensure workers' safety without impeding their entry into the industry.

Speaker 17
1:50:12
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1:50:40
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1:51:00
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1:52:53
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Speaker 1
1:53:22
I'm sorry.
1:53:22
I'm just gonna interrupt you just because we Yeah.
1:53:24
Yeah.
1:53:24
Yeah.
1:53:25
We wanna make sure we enforce all the rules exact same way.
1:53:28
So just in an interest of time, I wanna make sure you
Speaker 33
1:53:30
You translate.
1:53:31
So briefly
Speaker 1
1:53:32
Just briefly and then submit it in writing.
1:53:33
Yeah.
Speaker 33
1:53:34
Yeah.
1:53:34
So something he was mentioning is that his street safety we want to create more street safety, it has to come with worker protections.
1:53:42
There is we strongly support education, that it's much needed in our communities and also holding apps accountable to provide the devices.
1:53:51
We wanna make sure that I think the council member mentioned it, that does not condition it to enter in the industry.
1:53:57
And the big concern is making sure that also these companies don't subjects some of the training requirement or the devices requirement in order to do this job since many of them rely on this work.
1:54:07
And we're hoping to keep working with council member OSWA Fores, and the Council member Gale Brewer to make adjustments, to make sure that we put some protections for workers as we mandate essential tools and training for workers.
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And that's all.
1:54:21
Thank you so much.
Speaker 27
1:54:22
Thank you.
Speaker 1
1:54:22
Thank you.
1:54:22
You have it.
1:54:23
Council member, Felise, has a question.
Speaker 15
1:54:25
Yeah.
1:54:26
Yep.
1:54:26
Well, first, just wanna Thank you all for all the work you do.
1:54:31
Thank you for doing a great job, amplifying the voices of our delivery workers.
1:54:35
We have a lot of delivery workers, and all of you do a great job just bringing their concerns and challenges to the city council that so that we could resolve them.
1:54:43
And all of you have been great partners.
1:54:44
So just want to thank you for that.
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