Faced with the more than 15 deaths of food delivery men, as a result of violence during the increasingly common thefts of their bicycles, the organizations representing the so-called deliveristas The alarm was once again sounded about the lack of support from home service applications, which see them as contractors rather than employees.
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According to Ligia Guallpa, director of the Labor Justice Project: “This week we mourn the death of a colleague who has just lost his life due to the crime that food delivery men face every day in New York City. That job, every day, it becomes more dangerous, riskier for the more than 65,000 workers who do the food delivery in the applications. “
But the danger does not come only from assailants in search of a bicycle -which can cost up to thousands of dollars for the electric ones-; accidents like the one that blinded the life of Tomás Panto Chitic, run over by the driver of a van pick-up that he lost control of his vehicle and crossed the bike lane in the wrong direction on the morning of October 11 in Long Island City, seems like a matter of every day.
Roberto Morales Chitic, is the brother of a fatal accident victim: “We want justice to be done with the man who ran over my brother.”
The friends and relatives of this Guatemalan delivery man and father of two children asked for the solidarity of the community.
“Our family needs help to bury my brother because he cannot stay like this. We, the truth, are very affected by what happened. We want him to return to his country with the family,” Morales Chitic reiterates.
And some of the neighbors who knew the victim, pointed out: “He has left family, he has left mom and dad, wife. He was a working boy.”
We contacted the Guatemalan consulate to ask if they knew about this case or are ready to help the family but we have not received a response yet.
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