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#PlatformWork
#GigEconomy
#GigWork
#Unions
#Strikes
#Apps
#Platforms
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Amazing images from Greece's riders strike today.
#cancel_efood
#cancel_wolt
Read more here:
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The
#UberFiles
: 5 things you need to know
The Gig Economy Project looks at the key revelations from the Uber Files, a massive leak of of internal documents from the US ridehail giant uncovering the company’s true face.
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Deliveroo's share price is down 23%, and Delivery Hero down 12.7%, over the past five days as leaked drafts of the European Commission's Platform work directive suggest these companies may soon have to start employing their riders in Europe. 👀
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Breaking: The EU will pass the Platform Work Directive, after Greece and Estonia reversed their opposition to the Belgian-negotiated text!
25 votes in favour, only France and Germany against/abstaining.
#PlatformWork
#PlatformWorkDirective
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Defeat for platform lobby in Brussels:
- EU Parl votes for a text which would strengthen the presumption of employment & enhance workers' algorithmic rights in the
#PlatformWorkDirective
-
@leilachaibi
: 'rare win for workers in the EU'
Full report here:
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Taxistas beat Uber in battle for Barcelona:
- Law will limit VTCs to limousines & passenger vans to ensure clear distinction from taxi service
-
@Elite_TaxiBcn
claim "a great victory for the taxi"; private hire platform lobby: "a noose around the sector"
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Uber files complaint to competition authority in Barcelona taxi war:
- Uber has been trying to re-launch in Barcelona for 2 months, but has faced determined resistance from
@Elite_TaxiBcn
- Taxi union responds with lawsuit against Uber's CEO.
Read more
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German court: employers must provide riders with a bike & phone
- Judge ruled riders are "entitled to have their employer provide them with the essential work equipment to perform their job"
- case involved a rider
@lieferando
& unionist
@GewerkschaftNGG
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Barcelona: Glovo 'dark supermarket' riders begin unprecedented strike action
- 9-day
@ccoocatalunya
action is first official strike in app-based food delivery sector in Spain
- On first day of the strike Glovo's 5 food processing sites were "completely paralysed"
#VagaGlovo
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Children working as riders for food delivery apps - BBC investigation
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Carmen Juares de CCOO ha sido clave en la histórica huelga de los riders de Glovo en Barcelona.
En una entrevista con GEP, Juares afirma que los sindicatos “tienen que estar dispuestos a salir de su zona de confort” para organizarse en la economía gig.
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35
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Longest ever UK gig economy strike resumes:
-
@SYorksCouriers
return to pickets today after a hiatus following 18 day strike in December for a pay rise
-
@Stuart_Delivery
&
@IWGBunion
clash over claim that average pay has been slashed by 24%.
More here:
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Wolt couriers wildcat strike in Denmark:
- Wolt denies claim that it offered a bike cargo full of soda instead of a wage rise when striking riders came to their Copenhagen office
- Group of migrant riders want higher pay & other changes to the algorithm
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Riders and drivers from 25 groups and 15 countries are meeting at a General Assembly in Brussels today to share experiences and discuss strategies for global organisation and resistance.
#AlternativesToUberization
2
27
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Riders win "huge victory" in Greece:
- E-Food accept riders' demand of unlimited contracts, after historic strike &
#cancel_efood
campaign
- Riders went ahead with strike on Friday to "ensure that what the company has announced will be put into practice"
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Mass firings
@Gorillasapp
:
- Grocery delivery firm responds to new
@GorillasWorkers
wild cat strikes by firing 350 workers
- Termination letters do not explain reason for sacking, spell names incorrectly & may be illegal, according to a labour law expert
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Historic food delivery strike in the UK:
- Grassroots strike shutdown Deliveroo app & pressured Uber Eats to offer £70 for 2 deliveries
- London rider
@ShafHussain810
: "The most impactful strike that there’s been in this industry.”
Full report here:
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In the 1st criminal trial of Deliveroo in France, the judge has found that Deliveroo is guilty of 'concealed work', meaning riders were working as self-employed when they should have been employees. Deliveroo has been fined the maximum penalty: €375,000.
Procès Deliveroo : la plateforme de livraison vient d’être condamnée par la 31e chambre du tribunal correctionnel de Paris, pour avoir fait travailler ses livreurs en tant qu’indépendants, alors qu’ils auraient dû être salariés. L'amende maximale est prononcée : 375 000 euros.
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EU set to pass Platform Work Directive after last minute U-turns:
- 🇪🇪 and 🇬🇷 reversed their position, leaving 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪 isolated
-
#PlatformWork
regulation establishes presumption of employment & rights relating to algorithmic management
Read our report:
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The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look at developments in Barcelona, where a public-owned taxi app has launched and a planned approach is set to replace market competition. An alternative model to Uberisation is emerging.
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The Gig Economy Project is now producing a weekly newsletter!
It includes:
- A round-up of all the news
- Analysis of key developments
- What’s coming up
- All of GEP's articles & the best of the rest from around the web
Click the link to sign-up:
RT!
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Barcelona taxistas in “anti-gag” march against Uber:
- 2200 taxistas protest for "freedom of expression"
- Uber's complaint to the competition authority against
@Elite_TaxiBcn
@TaxiProjectEU
for "anti-competitive conduct" could lead to a crippling fine
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Carlos Rodríguez: Uber y Cabify violan los derechos de los usuarios – y tenemos las evidencias
@CarlosTxProject
resume un informe de
@TaxiProjectEU
sobre la violación de los derechos de los consumidores que utilizan las apps de Uber y Cabify.
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Open letter from French unions and worker collectives to EU labour ministers on the ‘French model’ and the Platform Work Directive:
"We want to alert and inform you about the reality of the situation in France."
Read here in English:
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Italian taxi wildcat strike ends after Prime Minister offers his resignation:
- Spontaneous strike spread across Italy & was sparked by
#UberFiles
revelations
- Taxis have been protesting for weeks against a Govt Bill which would liberalise the sector
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VALENTINE'S DAY STRIKE INTERVIEW ❤️✊
Riders' strike looks set to shutdown the food delivery platforms for the 2nd time in 2 weeks.
GEP spoke to one of the
@DeliveryJobUK
strike leaders about what motivated him & how the strike has been organised.
Read:
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Workers in insecure jobs twice as likely to die of Covid, TUC research finds
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The Gig Economy Project spoke to Zeynep Karlıdağ, rider at food delivery company
@GorillasApp
and member of the Gorillas’ Workers Collective (
@GorillasWorkers
), about their wave of wildcat strikes and warehouse blockades in Berlin.
Available in 🎧 and ✏️:
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THE BRUSSELS APPEAL
22 platform work collectives & unions have signed a statement on the future of the platform workers' movement, following the Alternatives to Uberisation forum in Brussels 2 weeks ago.
Read it & become a signatory here:
#PlatformWork
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How can the gig economy be democratised?
The first-ever global forum on Democratising Work (
@GlobalForumDW
) held two sessions on the gig economy and platform co-operatives, which revealed a range of views on routes to democratising gig work.
1
20
43
Ground-breaking study on Spanish ridehail platforms:
- Uber, Bolt & Cabify charge customers more in poor neighbourhoods than rich ones
- study "first" to provide comprehensive data of indirect price-fixing
- Call for Spanish authorities to investigate
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We have read through a copy of the EU Commission’s Platform Work Directive, set to be officially announced shortly at a press conference.
Here are some of the key lines from the Directive. 🧵
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Deliveroo is planning to pull out of Spain after the passing of the Riders Law, which requires food delivery company's to hire riders as employees and gives workers rights to access company algorithms.
0
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We are at the
@Elite_TaxiBcn
mobilisation in Barcelona today. They have just finished a 'slow march' around the city. Organisers say around 2,000 taxistas are in attendance, to resist the Uberisation of the city.
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The taxi drivers of Barcelona have once again shutdown the city as a "warning" that they won't accept Uberisation.
They want the 30 to 1 ratio of taxis to private hire vehicles maintained in new regulations being drafted by the Catalan Government.
Otra vez más el sector del taxi de Cataluña responde de forma contundente y unitaria ante el peligro de una liberalizacion del transporte de viajeros.
La Gran Vía es amarilla y negra.
#Ayusadaslasjustas
#Barcelona
#Taxi
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The European Trade Union Confederation (
@etuc_ces
) is calling for a European Parliament investigation into Uber's "anti-worker" lobbying.
#UberFiles
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In freezing cold and icy London, riders keep working despite the risks
@Ben_Wray1989
speaks to rider
@ShafHussain810
about the increased risks of delivering food through snow storms and on icy roads.
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'Por la defensa del Taxi y de los servicios públicos de Madrid'
@CarlosTxProject
y
@millanvmb
escriben contra la ley de transporte de ayer en Madrid, que favorece Uber y Bolt en detrimento del taxi. Dicen que una alternativa es posible en la capital.
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29
42
Basque union establishes domestic workers section & seeks 1st collective agreement:
-
@LABsindikatua
is organising a 90% female workforce who are still denied basic labour rights
- Care platforms are growing rapidly, & LAB is "attentive" to "Uberisation"
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Glovo riders protest & picket in
#Barcelona
:
-
@Glovo_Es
' new competitive pricing system for deliveries incentivises riders to take a 30% pay cut to secure orders
- After 4 days of protests, riders began picketing restaurants & supermarkets on Monday
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French Solidarity with Stuart Delivery strike:
- CGT union &
@leilachaibi
call on French-state owned La Poste to intervene in Stuart strike
- La Poste is Stuart's parent company, & CGT warn it wants to "impose" Stuart's gig model on French postal workers
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Read Uber whistleblower Mark MacGann’s full statement to the European Parliament today here:
#UberFiles
#MarkMacGann
#Uber
#PlatformWorkDirective
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The platform lobby in Brussels: 5 things you need to know
A new study by
@obs_multinat
takes an in-depth look at the platform lobby in Brussels in wake of the
#UberFiles
scandal, finding they are more deeply entrenched than ever.
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Platform Work Directive blocked:
- France voted against while Germany, Estonia & Greece abstained, enough to form a 'blocking minority' of states
- Directive appears to be dead: no time to re-negotiate before parliamentary elections.
Full report here:
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The Gig Economy Project speaks to a Wolt rider in Berlin, who was hired via a sub-contractor and was never paid. Him and his colleagues are suing the food delivery platform.
'The food delivery couriers who worked for three months and never got paid'
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"No compassion, no empathy that you’ve got bills, a family, a mortgage – it’s just ‘goodbye’."
As
@IWGBunion
protest at Uber’s London HQ to demand an end to unfair app terminations, rider Abiodun Ogunyemi & driver Brian Forwood tell us their experience.
2
20
35
The Gig Economy Project was at the excellent
@ETUI_org
'labour rights & digital transition' conference in Brussels this week. Here's our report:
'Digital labour rights conference hears doubts that EU Commission platform work directive will go far enough'
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18
35
Platform workers represented worldwide are at
#StopUberisation
forum in
#Brussels
today.
Clear messages from speakers:
- gig workers are employees
- Algorithms must be controlled for the good of the workers and the public
- international organisation is vital for the movement
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18
36
Una vez más, el taxi es atacado en Madrid
@CarlosTxProject
dice que la última maniobra de
@comunidadmadrid
para proteger los intereses de las plataformas de VTC será a costa de los ciudadanos y del medio ambiente, así como del taxi, y debe ser detenida.
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18
37
Accessing the algorithm to build union power: The case of Palermo
@piero_valma
speaks to Fabio Pace of
@CGILPalermo
which has used legal action to reveal the secrets of algorithmic management and strengthen the power of food delivery couriers.
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South Korean platform workers have issued a statement in solidarity with European riders participating in 'The Great Delivery' for platform workers' rights.
"Our demands are not different from those of the European riders"
Read here:
#LaGrandeLivraison
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26
33
Platform workers set for global action to tell
@EU_Commission
: ‘We’re Employees!’
Demonstrations in 16 countries across 3 continents tomorrow to mark the EU Commission officially beginning work on a Directive to regulate platform work.
#StruggleforRights
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The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
Britain's top judges have protected a work model which permits that a Deliveroo rider can labour for 9 hours straight in central London to bankers & earn just over £50.
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2
13
34
The latest from the Spanish state:
- 41st court victory for riders' rights in largest trial so far in Barcelona.
-
@ridersxderechos
say they won't support the Spanish Govt's 'Stop Fake Autonomous Law' unless it protects all gig workers' rights.
More:
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The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
A new study on what motivates food delivery couriers to join a union finds that they're like most groups of workers: riders will join if they believe that they can win.
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2
23
32
Important thread here on the spontaneous protests by Glovo riders in Barcelona. Riders have taken it upon themselves not just to demonstrate, but to picket and blockade restaurants, such as McDonalds, where Glovo makes a lot of money from deliveries. ✊
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.
@alexfoti
reports from Italy, following yesterday's national riders strike.
'March 26 is likely to go down in Italian labour history as the day when spaghetti gig workers put algorithmic employers on the defensive.'
Read:
#26Marzo
#RiderXiDiritti
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The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
The EU is on the verge of a Platform Work Directive-lite: establishing a framework for deciding on employment status, but leaving the substance up to member-states.
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1
19
33
EU member-states agree Platform Work Directive position:
- 3/7 criteria to trigger presumption of employment is higher threshold than original Commission text
- Both Uber &
@leilachaibi
criticise Council proposal
- 22 in favour, 5 abstentions
Read here
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26
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The Gig Economy Project newsletter is out!
This week we look at 'bogus employment' in the gig economy: where workers are employed, they're often still being denied access to the workers rights needed for a secure & dignified job.
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1
15
32
ILO economist Umar Rani told the
@TowardsFairWork
's launch of its global study on women & platform work that - far from women's empowerment - digital labour platforms are re-producing the same gender inequality as traditional labour markets.
Report here:
1
14
32
Benedict Hopman: Germany’s restrictions on the right to strike have their roots in the Nazi-era
3 Gorillas workers who were fired after participating in a wildcat strike are challenging it in court. Their lawyer makes the case for the right to strike.
0
18
29
Just Eat signs labour agreement with Spanish unions:
- Agreement, seen by GEP, is the first of its kind in Spain & includes €15.2k standard annual wage (€8.50 an hour)
- However it only applies to riders hired directly by Just Eat, not sub-contractors
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The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look at algorithmic wage discrimination: 2 drivers can be offered the exact same journey at completely different prices. What happened to equal pay for equal work?
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2
20
29
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
A new analysis shows Uber's new-found profitability was achieved by ramping up the exploitation of drivers through algorithmically-determined, personalised pay rates.
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1
22
31
'The food delivery riders who can't afford to eat'
1
14
30
Flink sacks its workers in Freiburg:
- Company accused of 'suppressing democracy ': 50 workers fired a week after voting to establish a Works Council
- Flink claim the hub wasn't profitable, but workers say
#Freiburg
was in top 3 performing hubs.
Read:
1
16
28
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look at Gorillas, which has gone from Europe's faster ever 'Unicorn' to on the verge of being sold for a rock-bottom price in just over a year - what's the root cause of this spectacular failure?
1
14
30
The big news from the UK today:
- Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are workers, entitling them to minimum wage and holiday pay
- Verdict also finds Uber drivers are at work from log-in until log-out, in what could be a huge blow to Uber's business model
2
19
31
UK Uber drivers join train colleagues in striking for higher pay
-
@ADCUnion
Uber drivers first to follow lead of
@RMTunion
in striking for higher pay
-
@jamesfarrar
tells GEP that Uber has “burned their drivers” by leaving them “exposed to inflation”
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29
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
Uber announced it's first-ever annual profit, & it's share price soared. But a close inspection finds that profit was derived from extremely creative accounting practices.
GEP's newsletter to your inbox:
1
23
29
'Why Europeans should care about the struggle of FoodPanda couriers in Hong Kong'
The Riders’ Rights Concern Group, a group dedicated to food delivery workers’ rights in HK, writes about the
#FoodPanda
dispute, & why it should matter in Europe too.
Read:
1
17
27
'Los riders sin papeles: Migrants tell their story from undocumented food delivery couriers to trade union organisers'
How do undocumented riders make a living in Spain? How can unions recruit migrant gig workers?
GEP spoke to Paola & Frank to find out.
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24
29
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look
@nielsvdoorn
's research on migrant experiences of gig work - we have to take a rounded perspective on what precarity means for migrant workers.
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1
7
28
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look at Helpling, a domestic cleaning platform which went bankrupt in the Netherlands. Is there an alternative to the informal economy which respects workers' rights?
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1
14
29
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look at the insights of
@parismarx
's book 'Road to Nowhere' about
#Uber
, a company which may be best understood as a weapon for weakening workers' rights.
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1
14
29
French
#UberFiles
inquiry report:
- Macron did a secret "deal" with Uber in 2015
- Uber maintains "extremely privileged links" to the state
- Uber’s job creation promises have "not been kept”
- Calls for platform workers to be employees
Read more:
0
22
29
‘Somos el sindicalismo del futuro’
Podcast entrevista con Alberto ‘Tito’ Álvarez (
@TitoEliteTx
), el líder de de Élite Taxi Barcelona (
@Elite_TaxiBcn
) y Taxi Project 2.0 (
@TaxiProjectEU
).
Disponible en 🎧y ✏️.
➡️
1
16
27
Stockholm Uber and Bolt drivers in first-ever strike:
- Newly-established Taxiunionen is demanding a pay rise and union representation
-
@GretaThunberg
among those who joined the drivers' protest on Tuesday in solidarity
0
13
27
PODCAST 🔊🔊🔊
Workers, algorithms & the EU: Interview with Aída Ponce Del Castillo
What does the AI Act & the AI management part of the Platform Work Directive mean for AI in the workplace? We spoke to
@APonceETUI
to find out.
Listen:
#PlatformWork
1
13
27
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look at the latest developments with the EU Platform Work Directive - after a year of deadlock among EU member-states, a deal may now be in sight.
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2
15
27
Carlos Díaz (
@cdiazgarcia92
) & Lucía Aliagas (
@lurssia
):
Spain’s Glovo: Exploitive capitalism with an algorithm
"Glovo came to pose a business of pure economic extraction, with little or no will to build a stable social project."
1
13
27
The ‘Equal opportunities in platform work’ project have released 2 studies on platform work & social exclusion/participation.
Anna-Elisabeth Hampel, Eva Luise Krause: What our research reveals about platform work and how it should be regulated
Read here:
1
17
28
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
A provisional agreement for an EU Platform Work Directive was struck this week: What are the key points of the deal? And will member-states vote for it?
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#PlatformWork
1
17
28
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look at the crisis facing gig platforms like Just Eat & Deliveroo - Is it right that they can get rid of large sections of their workforce & no one knows who & how many?
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1
13
28
The transnational forum on alternatives to Uberisation in the European Parliament has begun.
@leilachaibi
tells the conference that "pressure needs to be put now" to ensure the Platform Work Directive is not "stripped of any worth".
#StopUberisation
1
15
28
From 5-8 November, 8 riders from 6 different countries will ride their bikes for 400 kilometres from Paris to Brussels in ‘The Great Delivery’.
Piero Valmassoi
@piero_valma
spoke to Camille Peteers of
@co_coursiersBXL
to find out all about it.
Read here:
1
15
27
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look at
@Elite_TaxiBcn
's victory over Uber, Bolt & Cabify - are
#Barcelona
's Taxistas a model for how to stop the 'Uberisation' of the economy?
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1
16
27
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look at Barcelona, where Uber, Bolt & Cabify ignore the new law, leading to municipal police towing cars away. Is this what's required to stop Uberisation?
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1
23
27
The Gig Economy Project sat down with
@LudovicVoet
, secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (
@etuc_ces
), in Brussels to discuss the EU platform work directive & trade union organising in the gig economy.
Interview available in 🔊 & ✏️.
0
13
27
'Why Uber drivers in
@ADCUnion
logged-off for Gaza'
Abdurzaq Hadi, Uber driver & BAME officer for the ADCU, speaks to GEP about why the union is among the leading voices of the British trade union movement opposing Israel’s siege of Gaza.
#Gaza_Genocide
3
18
25
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we take a look at a new study on platform care: platforms are casualising care work, undermining social protections, making pay unpredictable & reducing safety.
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1
13
26
Deliveroo downgrades IPO expectations by £1 billion
- Financial investors put off by "ticking time bomb" of company's exploitative gig work model
- Investigation by
@bureaulocal
revealed 1 in 3 Deliveroo riders earn on average less than the minimum wage
1
15
26
The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we look at Marx's writings on the gig economy, which in his day was termed 'piece-wages'. Paying 'by the piece' is the most conducive to capitalist exploitation, Marx found.
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3
10
25
What is 'dynamic pricing'? And why is it “dangerous” for gig workers?
On the day of co-ordinated protests of Uber drivers in London and Amsterdam for fair pay, the Gig Economy Project takes a look.
Read here:
#FairPay
#Uber
#DynamicPricing
#Drivers
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Strike in Florence after rider death:
- Glovo rider Sebastian Galassi died in work accident
- Glovo sent automated message almost 24 hours after saying he'd been de-activated from app
- Riders at strike protest: “My life is worth more than a sandwich”
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The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!
This week we critique the idea that a presumption of employment in the EU Platform Work Directive would lead to the automatic re-classification of platform workers as employees.
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1
22
26
'Capital flight and legislative sabotage:
@Deliveroo
and
@Glovo_es
's response to the Riders Act.'
Analysis of the situation in Spain as two of Europe's biggest gig labour platforms refuse to accept a new law which gives its workers a modicum of rights.
1
14
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