{"id":37457,"date":"2025-03-31T09:38:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/how-has-deliveroo-turned-a-profit-by-slashing-the-pay-and-dismantling-the-rights-of-riders-like-me-shaf-hussain\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:38:02","slug":"how-has-deliveroo-turned-a-profit-by-slashing-the-pay-and-dismantling-the-rights-of-riders-like-me-shaf-hussain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/how-has-deliveroo-turned-a-profit-by-slashing-the-pay-and-dismantling-the-rights-of-riders-like-me-shaf-hussain\/","title":{"rendered":"How has Deliveroo turned a profit? By slashing the pay and dismantling the rights of riders like me | Shaf Hussain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our work is dangerous and the pay only gets worse, while the CEO has just sold \u00a315m in shares \u2013 we deserve better<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shaf Hussain is a Deliveroo rider and chair of the couriers branch of the IWGB union<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s taken Deliveroo more than a decade to do it, but this month, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/mar\/13\/deliveroo-makes-annual-profit-for-first-time\">made an annual profit for the first time<\/a>. This might come as a surprise. If you live in London, you probably see one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/Deliveroo%20%282560%29.pdf\">15,000 or so<\/a> couriers like me zooming past you several times a day. And with Covid triggering a takeaway boom five years ago, you\u2019d reasonably assume that these apps are raking it in.<\/p>\n<p>But while companies such as Deliveroo and Uber have been pumped full of cash by investors, many have been losing money year after year, as they tried to squeeze competition out of the market. Twelve years into its existence, Deliveroo has finally made good on the promise to its investors and turned into a moneymaker, recording a \u00a33m profit.<\/p>\n<p>Shaf Hussain is a Deliveroo rider and chair of the couriers branch of the IWGB union<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/31\/deliveroo-ceo-15m-riders-risk-lives-pay-slashed-how-that-fair\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our work is dangerous and the pay only gets worse, while the CEO has just sold \u00a315m in shares \u2013 we deserve better Shaf Hussain is a Deliveroo rider and chair of the couriers branch of the IWGB union It\u2019s taken Deliveroo more than a decade to do it, but this month, the company made &#8230; <a title=\"How has Deliveroo turned a profit? By slashing the pay and dismantling the rights of riders like me | Shaf Hussain\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/how-has-deliveroo-turned-a-profit-by-slashing-the-pay-and-dismantling-the-rights-of-riders-like-me-shaf-hussain\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How has Deliveroo turned a profit? By slashing the pay and dismantling the rights of riders like me | Shaf Hussain\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}