{"id":982811,"date":"2025-12-31T08:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982811"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:14:38","slug":"delivery-apps-brace-for-mega-strike-on-new-years-eve-as-unions-mobilise-1-5-lakh-workers-across-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/31\/delivery-apps-brace-for-mega-strike-on-new-years-eve-as-unions-mobilise-1-5-lakh-workers-across-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivery apps brace for mega strike on New Year\u2019s Eve as unions mobilise 1.5 lakh workers across India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The tug of war between delivery workers\u2019 unions and e-commerce and food delivery apps escalated on Tuesday, a day ahead of the planned mega strike announced by the unions. Firms have reportedly deployed bouncers, while Bollywood actors are enticing workers with promises of lump-sum earnings or even a vehicle for working just two days. The unions have chosen New Year\u2019s Eve to maximise impact, as deliveries and home food orders peak during the festive period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The tug of war between delivery workers\u2019 unions and e-commerce and food delivery apps escalated on Tuesday, a day ahead of the planned mega strike announced by the unions. Firms have reportedly deployed bouncers, while Bollywood actors are enticing workers with promises of lump-sum earnings or even a vehicle for working just two days. The unions have chosen New Year\u2019s Eve to maximise impact, as deliveries and home food orders peak during the festive period.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982811","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=982811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}