‘Impossible to survive’: Dubai food delivery riders go on strike


A delivery person rides a motorcycle along a road past a building in Dubai Knowledge Park in the Gulf emirate's Jumeirah district. Renowned as a temple of luxury, Dubai has not been immune to the recent global inflation, with food delivery drivers going on strike to demand better pay amid rising fuel prices. — AFP

DUBAI: Food delivery drivers have staged rare strikes in Dubai, a renowned temple of luxury where fuel prices have spiralled on the back of global inflation sparked by the Ukraine war.

The riders, all of whom are foreigners mostly from south Asia, are demanding better pay and have held two strikes this month in the energy-rich Gulf state where industrial action is rare.

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