Well, we got an interesting email yesterday, seems UPS is planning for a strike.
For those not familiar with Roadie, it started as a low paying courier company who's model was that you could make a couple bucks doing a deliver on the way to work, the store, etc. A few years back UPS bought it, but there was no real change, the already bad driver support might've become a bit worse, it was hard to tell, and pay rates seemed to go down a little. Surprisingly it didn't bring more work, despite UPS being first choice shipper for tens of thousands of companies worldwide, and UPS having their own personal package drivers, ie contract delivery workers, though that was mostly holiday work.
The expectation has been that they would tap Roadie for scabs, if the Teamsters strike, and based on this email, I think that's just what they're doing. They do already do batch deliveries for retailers, but they've never called them blocks, nor made much of a big deal about it like this.
I'm already thinking of going on strike in solidarity should the Teamsters strike, and encourage all other Roadie couriers to do the same.
Good luck! If you're going to organize a strike, make sure you have people to help with planning and setting up. Make sure that you have a plan to protect against retaliation; come up with a reason that isn't explicitly "solidarity strike" and have a sign in sheet to build a retaliation case before it starts.
In this case it would be just that, Roadie is app based courier work, everyone is an independent contractor, so this would be calling for drivers to log out of the app and stay logged out until the strike is over. I don't think there's anything they can do to retaliate, worst is they can terminate our accounts and refuse to let us work for them, but since I have around 10 apps on my phone, I'm not exactly dependent on them, in fact they're one of my back up options.