download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Delivery drivers are trying to pressure Amazon to pay more to its Flex program drivers to accommodate surging gas prices. Around 50 delivery and rideshare drivers, including drivers for the Flex delivery program, gathered to protest outside an Amazon warehouse near Los Angeles on Wednesday, CNBC reported. Gas prices have spiked since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine at the end of February, and the price of gas had already been rising in the months running up to the invasion. The national average price for gas was $4.27 a gallon as of Thursday, according to American Automobile Association Gas Prices, an increase of about 75 cents from a month earlier.

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