National Union of Food Delivery Riders

11/10/2026

Decent Work in the Platform Economy

Fundamental Rights at Work (Article 3): Member states must ensure that platform workers are granted standard core labor rights, which include freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, the elimination of forced labor, the abolition of child labor, the eradication of workplace discrimination, and the right to a safe and healthy working environment.

Occupational Safety and Health (Article 4): Member states are required to implement preventative measures to protect digital platform workers from occupational accidents, diseases, and injuries linked to their work.

09/10/2026

https://www.ituc-ap.org/news-and-updates/from-global-victory-to-national-action-trade-unions-across-asia-and-the-pacific-mobilise-around-ilo-convention-193

07/10/2026

PAGKAKAISANG DE-KALIBRE
MULING PINAKITA NG
RIDERS-SENTRO-CAVITE!

Pormal nang isinampa ng RIDERS-SENTRO-CAVITE ang demanda para sa tamang kita, mga benepisyo at
pagbabalik ng mga binawing quest incentives at bawas fare na ipinagbabawal ng ating batas.

Laban tayo hanggang makamit ang maayos na sistema ng ating hanapbuhay!

LABAN RIDERS-SENTRO-CAVITE!

03/10/2026

Kung mapirmahan at ipatupad ang ILO Convention C193, may sure na kita, hindi puro tengga.

PIRMAHAN NA ANG ATING KARAPATAN!

02/10/2026

Article 12 of ILO Convention 193

Each Member shall take measures to ensure that digital platform workers have access to social security protection on terms no less favourable than those applicable to other workers with the same classification of status in employment.

02/10/2026

Very Unhealthy Air,
Very Unsafe Work:
Protect Riders Now!

RIDERS-SENTRO calls on platform companies to immediately provide proper protective masks to riders and on the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to ensure that occupational safety and health protections apply to platform workers, regardless of their employment status.

Parts of Metro Manila are experiencing “very unhealthy” air quality. For most people, that is a warning to limit outdoor exposure. For riders, however, the road is their workplace.

They cannot work from home. They cannot simply stay indoors. They cannot stop breathing.

Thousands of riders spend hours on the road every day, exposed not only to traffic fumes and roadside pollution but now to worsening ambient air quality. The health risks of this exposure cannot simply be treated as the riders’ personal responsibility.

If the road is the workplace, air pollution is an occupational hazard.

Platform companies must therefore immediately provide riders with appropriate protective masks at no cost to them, together with clear protocols to reduce exposure when air quality becomes unhealthy or dangerous.

DOLE, for its part, must immediately enforce and operationalize its existing occupational safety and health protections for outdoor and platform workers, including the appropriate measures when air quality reaches very unhealthy levels.

The Philippines has yet to ratify ILO Convention No. 193 on Decent Work in the Platform Economy. But we should not wait for ratification before protecting Filipino riders.

C193 establishes a clear direction: platform workers must enjoy protection for occupational safety and health regardless of their employment status. Whether a rider is called an employee, partner, contractor or self-employed worker should not determine whether his or her lungs are protected.

This is consistent with the ILO’s recognition of a safe and healthy working environment as a fundamental principle and right at work.

The government should therefore begin aligning our laws, policies and enforcement practices with C193 now, including by ensuring that platform companies cannot evade their responsibility for workers’ safety simply through contractual labels.

Riders are workers. Their health is not a business expense to be passed on to them. Their lungs are not part of the delivery cost.

RIDERS-SENTRO demands:

Masks from platforms.
Protection from DOLE.
OSH rights for every rider, regardless of status.

When the air becomes unsafe, the road becomes unsafe. And when the road is the workplace, workers have the right to be protected.

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01/10/2026

Ito lang ba ang Issue natin?
Ano masasabi niyo dito mga Ka-RIDERS?

29/09/2026

29.3 MILLION? DESERVE NIYO YAN!
Patunay na ang karapatan ay dapat ilaban!
Congrats sa inyong tagumpay!

QUEZON CITY—Affirming its commitment to promote industrial peace, the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) National Capital Region Arbitration Branch (NCRAB) successfully facilitated the voluntary payment of judgment awards for 14 delivery riders in a courier service company for an e-commerce platform.

Labor Arbiter Carlos L. Buenaventura of NCRAB Branch 24, together with Labor Arbitration Associate John John C. Bareno and Administrative Assistant V Giancarlo L. Go, assisted the parties during the settlement process on September 16, 2026.

The agreement, which was reached during the pre-execution stage, granted the delivery riders the total amount of Php29,317,314.50 representing the settlement of their full backwages, separation pay, and attorney’s fees.

Labor Arbiter Buenaventura expressed his appreciation for both parties’ willingness to resolve their differences through amicable means.

This voluntary payment of judgment awards highlights the importance of cooperation in the peaceful, swift, and cost-efficient resolution of labor disputes.

By actively encouraging settlements, the NLRC, under the leadership of Chairperson Grace E. Maniquiz-Tan, reaffirms its dedication to ensuring the prompt and fair administration of justice for both workers and employers. This is also in support of the directive of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Francis N. Tolentino to promote dialogue and speedy resolution of labor disputes to foster harmonious labor-management relations.

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ᴇʀɪᴋᴀ ᴠ. ᴍᴀꜱɪʟᴀɴɢ
ɪɴꜰᴏʀᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰꜰɪᴄᴇʀ ɪɪɪ, ʀɪᴘᴅ

27/09/2026

27/09/2026

ANG KARAPATAN AT BENEPISYO NATIN AT NANG ATING PAMILYA AY HINDI LANG BASTA PANGARAP!

SAMA-SAMA NATIN ITONG ABUTIN AT ILABAN!