INWOOD, NY — Delivery staff and rideshare drivers will collect in Inwood on Tuesday to honor staff inside the industries who’ve been killed on the job because the starting of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The memorial comes within the wake of the demise of Zhiwen Yan, a supply employee and father of three who was shot to demise on the job in Forest Hills on April 30.
The memorial will happen inside Inwood Hill Park on the Tree of Peace. It will start at 1 p.m.
“While sharing their stories of coworkers lost to rising violence, accidents on the road, or exposure to COVID while working for companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash, drivers and delivery workers will raise awareness of the dangers of their industry and call for increased safety protections from the app companies,” reads a information launch for the memorial.
Outside of group members and households of staff killed on the job, the next teams might be in attendance:
- Justice for App Workers Coalition for Uber, Lfyt, DoorDash, Chowbus and extra
- NYC Rideshare Club
- United Delivery Workers Association
- International Alliance of Delivery Workers
- Independent Drivers Guild
- Long Island Uber and Lyft Network
- Black Car Mafia
- UzBER
- NYC Drivers Unite
- Utany
There might be 12 drawn portraits of app staff killed on the job, laid with white flowers alongside a big purple banner studying, “Safety For App Workers.”
Family members may even maintain indicators and images of their misplaced ones.