This US organisation, which started up a little more than a year ago, hosted its first Wellness Fair recently to promote wellness and self-care practices for ride-share and delivery drivers amid the ongoing and new struggles of the job.
CHICAGO On a Friday afternoon in the summer of 2019, Chicago resident and ride-share driver Teddi Burgess picked up a couple of passengers from Portillo's in River North.
The surge in people choosing to drive for a living for rideshare and delivery companies was met with a pandemic of viral infections but also more crime on the roads, and drivers are struggling to balance the pros of the job, like flexible schedules, with the reality of the risks of being on the road.
"We re all at risk when we re out there," said Lenny Sanchez, co-founder of the Independent Drivers Guild of Illinois. "We are extremely angered in general as a community."