India Gig Worker Strike New Year's Eve
Analysis based on 34 articles · First reported Dec 24, 2025 · Last updated Dec 31, 2025
The nationwide gig worker strike in India, particularly affecting New Year's Eve, posed a significant threat to the operations and revenues of food delivery and e-commerce platforms like Zomato, Swiggy, Zomato — Blinkit, Amazon (company), and Walmart — Flipkart. While companies offered increased incentives to mitigate disruptions, the event highlighted systemic labor issues in the gig economy, potentially leading to future regulatory changes that could impact these companies' business models and profitability. The strike's limited impact on services, as reported by some sources, suggests that the immediate financial hit to these companies might be less severe than initially feared, but the underlying worker grievances remain.
Gig workers across India, organized by the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union and the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers, launched a nationwide strike on December 25 and December 31, 2025. The strike aimed to protest declining earnings, unsafe working conditions, arbitrary account deactivations, and a lack of social security benefits from major platforms like Zomato, Swiggy, Zomato — Blinkit, Metric prefix, Amazon (company), and Walmart — Flipkart. In response, Zomato and Swiggy offered significantly increased incentives and waived penalties for their delivery partners to ensure service continuity during the high-demand New Year's Eve period. Despite union claims of widespread participation, some reports indicated minimal disruption to services. The unions are demanding transparent pay structures, an end to 10-minute delivery models, improved safety, accident insurance, and government regulation of platform companies under labor laws.
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