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of 5,000 signatures
To To Heidi Alexander, Secretary of State for Transport
I deliver for a living. Or I walk on a pavement every day. Either way, nobody thought to ask me.
Ministers are planning to change the law to let delivery robots loose on England's pavements and a US company called Starship Technologies wants more than 10,000 of them on our streets. They're already rolling around Sheffield, Bristol and Milton Keynes without anyone's permission, and in Sheffield they installed a hub at a scout hut without telling the council or local residents.
The government says a consultation is coming. But delivery workers, the people who'd actually lose their livelihoods, haven't been part of any conversation yet.
Nobody's against new technology. But changing the law to replace workers' jobs without asking those workers first isn't progress. It's just bad politics.
Ministers are planning to change the law to let delivery robots loose on England's pavements and a US company called Starship Technologies wants more than 10,000 of them on our streets. They're already rolling around Sheffield, Bristol and Milton Keynes without anyone's permission, and in Sheffield they installed a hub at a scout hut without telling the council or local residents.
The government says a consultation is coming. But delivery workers, the people who'd actually lose their livelihoods, haven't been part of any conversation yet.
Nobody's against new technology. But changing the law to replace workers' jobs without asking those workers first isn't progress. It's just bad politics.
Petition text
So we're asking you to:
Make sure delivery workers are part of the consultation, not an afterthought.
Don't change the law until that consultation is done and the results are published.
Require any company deploying robots at scale to set out clearly what happens to the workers they're replacing.
Design the consultation with disabled people, pedestrian groups and workers at the table, not just the tech companies lobbying for it.
No delivery robots until workers are consulted!
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