“By flash strike, we mean workers in a particular zone announcing they are on strike for an hour or two and not carrying out any deliveries during the period. This is the biggest strike we have done so far,” he said.

In Hyderabad there was a bike rally at Gachibowli Kondapur where over 2,000 workers took part.

The revised Labour Codes has mandated bringing the workers into the social security fold. Asked about it, the national president of IFAT, Prashant Bhagesh Sawardekar, said, “The reforms have merely been announced. The implementation has not happened. If it is going to take place after ten years, it will not help the struggling workers.”  

ID blocking is a major issue among gig workers. “The employee is barred from working for the platform anymore. There is a ten-minute delivery option. Some customer complains it was not done and the ID gets blocked by the company and he cannot work on the platform anymore,” he said.

Employees of Swiggy, Zomato, Blinkit, Zepto, Amazon and Flipkart took part in the strike on Thursday, he claimed.

An official release said the protest was against unsafe working conditions, unfair pay, ID blocking and denial of dignity and social security to gig workers across the country.