Report: Delivery Riders Are Striking All Over the Place
by Polly Smythe
In Luton, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, Harlow, Slough and Basingstoke, riders are striking against abysmal pay and long hours.
Tag: deliveroo
Report: Deliveroo Thinks France Has the ‘Most Progressive’ Gig Economy. Deliveroo Has Been Fined for Workers’ Rights Abuses in France
by Polly Smythe
The remarks were made by Peter Mandelson’s godson at a Labour Party fringe event sponsored by Deliveroo.
Feature: Couriers Stunt Dalston’s Gentrification. The Police and Council Want Them Gone
by Rivkah Brown
Saturday night’s immigration raid in Dalston, north London is part of a years-long effort to cleanse the area of its brown and Black couriers. Rivkah Brown reports.
Report: Sheffield Food Couriers Are Waging the Longest Strike in the History of the Gig Economy
by Callum Cant
For the last ten nights, delivery drivers in Sheffield have been picketing McDonald's branches over a Christmas pay cut. Callum Cant reports on the longest strike to ever hit the UK gig economy.
Report: The Rider-Owned Food Courier Coop Taking on Deliveroo
by Alex D King
A group of former Deliveroo riders have set up their own food courier cooperative as an alternative to the exploitative conditions of the gig economy. Alex D King reports.
Analysis: The Frontline of the Struggle Against Platform Capitalism Lies in São Paulo
by Callum Cant
Angry food delivery workers in São Paulo are at the heart of new intra-continental solidarity networks in Latin America. But despite pulling off one of the biggest ever strikes against platform capitalism, familiar barriers to organising still need to be overcome, writes Callum Cant.
Novara Docs: Reclaiming Work
Cycle courier cooperatives are turning technology on the gig economy giants.
Explainers: The Gig Economy Is Killing People
Platform workers are literally dying on the job. As ever, the working class have to risk their lives for the profits of the ruling class. This is capitalism baby.
‘We’ve reached a tipping point’: Why Fast Food Workers Are Going on Strike
by Joe Hayns
On Thursday 4 October fast food workers across the country are coordinating walkouts in what promises to be the first multi-workforce, national-scale hospitality industry strike in a generation. Joe Hayns caught up with some of the strikers and organisers to find out why.
Now is the Time for Worker Power in the Tech Industry
by Wendy Liu
Among the upper echelons of the tech industry there is strong hostility to the idea of organised labour. But the tech sector is too important to cede control of it to capital, and lately there have been more and more reasons why tech workers need to build collective power, writes Wendy Liu.
5 Things You Need to Know About the Latest Industrial Action Against Deliveroo
by Jim Benfield
Following a one day strike earlier in the month, Deliveroo riders in Brighton are now launching a full campaign with the help of the IWGB union.
#Slaveroo, Industrial Action and Cooperativism: What Does the Future of the Digital Platform Economy Hold?
by Jim Benfield
Recent strikes by Deliveroo and UberEats workers drive home the threats to rights and conditions behind the growth of the digital platform economy. What does the future hold for these technologies and our relationship to them?
Novara FM: End of Summer: New Season
On this week's show, the first in a new series, Aaron Bastani and James Butler look back at the stories which have defined the Summer.
UberEats Workers on Strike and Hungry for Fair Pay
by Joe Hayns
This summer saw the London launch of UberEats - a new food delivery platform to rival Deliveroo. Yesterday UberEats drivers took their first strike action. Here’s a round-up.
#Slaveroo: Deliveroo Drivers Organising in the ‘Gig Economy’
by Jamie Woodcock
Yesterday hundreds of Deliveroo turned up at the company's London HQ to convey their collective grievances regarding a new pay structure, defying the fragmentation of platform-based labour in the so-called 'gig economy'.