{"id":855127,"date":"2024-09-13T08:54:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=855127"},"modified":"2024-09-13T09:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:37:46","slug":"amazon-boosts-pay-for-subcontracted-delivery-drivers-amid-union-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/13\/amazon-boosts-pay-for-subcontracted-delivery-drivers-amid-union-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon boosts pay for subcontracted delivery drivers amid union pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is giving another pay boost to its subcontracted delivery drivers in the US amid growing union pressure. <\/p>\n<p>Drivers who work with Amazon&#8217;s Delivery Service Partners, or DSPs, will earn an average of nearly $22 per hour, a 7% bump from the previous average of $20.50, the company said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The increase in wages is part of a new $2.1 billion investment the online retailer is making in the delivery program. Amazon doesn&#8217;t directly employ drivers but relies on thousands of third-party businesses that deliver millions of customer packages every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is giving another pay boost to its subcontracted delivery drivers in the US amid growing union pressure. Drivers who work with Amazon&#8217;s Delivery Service Partners, or DSPs, will earn an average of nearly $22 per hour, a 7% bump from the previous average of $20.50, the company said Thursday. The increase in wages is part of a new $2.1 billion investment the online retailer is making in the delivery program. Amazon doesn&#8217;t directly employ drivers but relies on thousands of third-party businesses that deliver millions of customer packages every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}