Owned by the Drivers: How Worker Cooperatives Are Disrupting the Delivery App Model From the Inside Out
A growing number of millennial delivery workers are trading gig economy uncertainty for cooperative ownership models that offer higher earnings and a genuine voice in platform governance. As worker-owned delivery platforms gain traction across U.S. cities, the structural advantages of cooperative commerce are becoming impossible for the industry to ignore. This is the story of how community-built alternatives are quietly rewriting the rules of last-mile logistics.