https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7bvzd/manhattan-community-board-calls-giving-gig-workers-bathroom-access-crazy

For as long as app-based gig labor platforms have existed, access to bathrooms has been a huge concern for workers pressed for time to make ends meet. These concerns have only grown worse  as employers adopt gig economy practices and as COVID-19 intensifies demand for food delivery nationwide.

Given the rhetoric from well-to-do communities dependent on gig work before and during the pandemic honoring essential workers, it may come as a surprise that one community board in Manhattan’s Upper West Side had nothing but venom for a relatively innocuous suggestion during a community Zoom meeting last week: to pass a non-binding resolution encouraging restaurants to let delivery workers to use their bathrooms.