 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. In New York City, there are as many as 80,000 people currently working as bike couriers for an array of food delivery companies such as DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. These apps became a lifeline for millions of people in the city during the most serious part of the pandemic lockdown. And in this time, these companies saw record profits. Food delivery workers worked long and strenuous hours for almost half of the city's minimum wage pay. Reckless drivers, road accidents, and theft threatened their physical safety on a daily basis. A survey of delivery workers by the Worker Institute at Cornell and Los Deliveristas Unidos found that 54% of those surveyed had been robbed while making deliveries, and almost half had gotten into accidents. So far in 2021, more than 10 food delivery workers had been killed on the job, either in violent robberies or in road accidents. These conditions drove many workers to organize means to protect themselves and others. Cesar Solano Catalan, a 19-year-old bike delivery worker from Guerrero, Mexico, and some of his family members, all bike couriers, began a Facebook page called El Diario de Los Delivery Boys en la Gra Manzana, or The Delivery Boys in the Big Apple Daily. The page has more than 28,000 followers and serves as a channel for workers to report bike thefts, assaults, and deaths across the city. The Willis Avenue Bridge, which connects Manhattan to the Bronx, has been the site of numerous thefts and attacks on delivery workers. After hearing about attacks on two workers on the bridge, Cesar and other workers decided to organize a nightly security brigade there. Almost every night since late July, Cesar and the other lead organizers have coordinated security at the bridge, making sure that no biker crosses it alone. We are in charge of the El Diario de Los Delivery Boys in the Gra Manzana. My cousins, uncles, and a friend are having dinner. We were informed of a message that two of our partners had been attacked. They had taken their bike tools and all that. And that encouraged us to arrive that same night, to see, analyze the bridge, and to see that there were no police, no cameras, no lights. And we decided that we had to do this, because if we don't do it, nobody else will do it. Maybe the police is here, two or three blocks away, but it's not here at the entrance. Here we want the police at the entrance of the bridge, because here is where things happen. The attacks happen, the partners call, the police arrive after 15 minutes, and after the drone is already in their house. So we started with that initiative, that the partners spend in groups, that we are more organized in the groups of Waxat, in the groups of Alert, and now we have almost four months here. The police have not given us an answer, that they come here to put the security, the cameras, the lights, there is still nothing of that. We are still standing here with the partners, they are here, they are from the guard. I think there are nights that we can't come, public health, it's very hard to work, in my case I work all day, then the night to come here, again until one, two at night, so it's very hard. But if we have been here almost all night, it's about 20% of the days that we have been here for four months. César told People's Dispatch that the companies do not pay for their equipment, as well they don't cover their medical bills. The company doesn't pay you for the tool of work, a bike, your backpack, your helmet, everything runs in your account. He also said that the initial days of the pandemic were really difficult for delivery workers, but now things are slowly starting to improve after the formation of the organization because there is a sense of solidarity. I was convinced of doing delivery of food. I knew how dangerous it was to be in the streets, accidents. And I didn't know about the robbers, I didn't know about the robbers. I didn't know much about them. But when we started to give them away from the pandemic, they cut our hours, days and until we closed the restaurant, I said, how are we going to survive? We are not from here, we are not going to receive support from here, which is why we have to work. So from there I started, my cousin started, my uncle started and the whole family started to do the delivery of food. In the pandemic it was more, for me, more ugly, sadder. Sometimes we went to the hospitals, the cars were there, they were with the bodies of the deceased. If you were going to a house, it was very solid and at that time there was so much insecurity in the streets that you went out, everything was open, there were people screaming here, throwing you this. You didn't have to tell anyone, we called the police and they wouldn't come. So at that moment we were analyzing this little by little, little by little, until we decided on November 4. I think we had to work like four or five months to realize what was happening with our colleagues, colleagues, so much insecurity, so much danger, so much theft, deaths of the colleagues. Before, if a delivery man died, he would die, right? And he just had to see his family, his friends, if he had any and if not, then that's what they abandoned. And right now a delivery man dies and the whole community of delivery men, that food, is found, they put their little grain, they put it in the funeral, and a media of communication was already made for the delivery men. Believe me, on that page right now, we were 28,000 followers because we started with that. And if we hadn't done it before, who knows how that would be. Even though the delivery workers come from all parts of the world and speak different languages, the workers' relationships among each other have improved and efforts are being put in to break all barriers and bring unity. Well, to be honest, I have no idea, but we are quite a few. I don't know if more than 80,000 delivery men came out of the news, because there are 80,000. So we are quite a few, from the Mexican community, from Guatemala, Ecuador, Branda Dej, from Africa, from everywhere. So we have seen that we are quite a few, more than what makes us fall apart. This is the union. Because so many Latinos are already here, but other countries are already getting closer little by little. I think there are some African companies here with us, there are some companies that have passed here, but we have tried to work with them, to get closer to them, to work with them. Because it is difficult to understand ourselves, because of what we speak. In my case, I am just trying to speak English, and then speaking something different is complicated. But we have already obtained a favorable response from them because they already look at what we are doing, and they have started to donate their granita arena. They don't understand it, but they see something in a box, and they put their granita arena. Well, I think that for some part we have improved our friendship, because before I mentioned it, a delivery man who comes out of his house, he walks like in his world. He doesn't even know who he is, he doesn't even know who he is. So he goes through something, he prefers to go to his house and take him out. And right now I am going to meet him, how are you? How are you? Did this happen to you? Or did he die? Or did that happen to me with an order? Oh, look, look here. So right now the guards are with us, and they already know each other. We already know each other, and down there, in any place where we meet, hey, this, you give me a biscuit, okay? Where? Well, you don't have one that you have, so that you can think about it, or you can sell it. Or, look, and not so much in these cases, also of high robbers, but also, you know what, in the coexistence. Tomorrow is my birthday, I invite you to my birthday, okay? Let's not be from the same country, but the unity is joining us right now.