Keeta riders in Hong Kong strike over pay reduction and no peak hour subsidies
Riders working for Keeta, a major food delivery platform in Hong Kong, are demanding better payment from the company after staging strikes in two districts on Saturday.
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Dozens of delivery workers, who protested during lunch and dinner hours on Saturday in Tsuen Wan, stated in an open letter that the Meituan-owned platform had reduced their pay per delivered order.
'Since May your platform [has kept] on decreasing the order fee. It is not me, we all Tsuen Wan riders are receiving the orders fee less than HK$38 (US$4) per single order and less than HK$55 per double order in non peak hours,' they wrote in the letter.
'The peak hour order fee we [are] receiving is less than HK$45 per single order and less than HK$65 per double order and including no SUBSIDY provided in the Tsuen Wan area.
'We as all Tsuen Wan motorcycle riders, cyclist and walkers today hold a strike against your unfair decreasing fee and all the sudden change of providing no SUBSIDY in peak hours.'
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Images of the strike posted online showed about 40 delivery workers gathered near Hoi Pa Street in Tsuen Wan, many holding signs criticising Keeta.
Some signs read 'STABLE FEE & FAIR PAY' and 'SUBSIDY IN PEAK HOURS'.
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