{"id":982098,"date":"2025-12-26T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982098"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:35:06","slug":"quick-commerce-workers-strike-over-falling-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/26\/quick-commerce-workers-strike-over-falling-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick commerce workers strike over falling pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delivery workers from major quick commerce platforms went on strike across several major cities on Wednesday, in a protest against falling earnings and what they describe as deteriorating working conditions in the fast-growing sector. <\/p>\n<p>The Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union (TGPWU) and Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT), representing over 40,000 delivery workers, had called for strikes on December 25 and 31 targeting platforms including Swiggy, Eternal, Zepto, Amazon, and Flipkart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delivery workers from major quick commerce platforms went on strike across several major cities on Wednesday, in a protest against falling earnings and what they describe as deteriorating working conditions in the fast-growing sector. The Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union (TGPWU) and Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT), representing over 40,000 delivery workers, had called for strikes on December 25 and 31 targeting platforms including Swiggy, Eternal, Zepto, Amazon, and Flipkart.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982098","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=982098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}