Inside the office of the nonprofit Worker’s Justice Project in Brooklyn, Gustavo Ajche pulled up a screenshot on his phone. It showed the delivery app Motoclick had paid him $6.75 for three hours of work in November 2024—a fraction of the city’s $19.56 minimum hourly rate for delivery workers at the time.

“They keep you waiting for hours, and sometimes you don’t make any money for the work you put in,” said Ajche, an immigrant from Guatemala and member of Los Deliveristas Unidos, a delivery workers group.

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