Today, Steve Greenhouse has a good story in The New York Times about the struggle of many food delivery workers to get a decent wage.

They can usually be seen pedaling madly on Manhattan streets, often
against traffic, rushing to satisfy New Yorkers’ capacious appetites
for cold sesame noodles and General Tso’s chicken.

Yu Guan Ke, who started working for Saigon Grill a decade ago, says he
was paid $120 in wages for 75-hour weeks as a deliveryman.

But nowadays these restaurant
deliverymen can increasingly be seen standing defiantly on the city’s
sidewalks, hoisting protest signs and shouting that they should be paid
the minimum wage.

Call it the deliverymen’s rebellion. These
workers, almost all of them immigrants from China, have picketed
several Saigon Grill, Ollie’s and Our Place outlets, accusing these
well-known Asian restaurants of paying them as little as $1.40 an hour,
far less than the federal and state minimum wage. The workers have
filed federal wage lawsuits in Manhattan against those restaurant
companies, and their advocates say they will soon sue a dozen other
restaurants in the city.

“The conditions are pretty bad in all
the restaurants, so there’s no real advantage to switch to another
restaurant,” said Yu Guan Ke, a deliveryman who said Saigon Grill
usually paid him just $120 in wages for his 75-hour weeks. “Before we
would accept whatever wages they would give us, but now we see we
should stand up for what we’re entitled to under the law.”

The rest is here.