‘I Feel Like an Uber Slave’: The Illnesses Affecting Private Hire Drivers
Polly Smythe
‘Mini cabbing, mini killing, and eventually mini dying.’
Tag: gig economy
‘I’m Afraid to Work’: 85% of Uber Drivers Say They Fear More Race Riots This Summer
Polly Smythe
‘I was an easy target.’
London Uber Drivers Are Drowning in Debt As TfL Delays Renewing Licences
Polly Smythe
Drivers were already at breaking point. Then TfL screwed up.
Warehouse Workers Are Too Tired to See a Way Out
Juliet Jacques
New film On Falling plumbs depths of customer fulfilment hell.
Delivery Company Offers Workers Rights – But Only With a Pay Cut
Polly Smythe
A false choice.
Royal Mail-Owned Delivery Firm Faces Strike Action After Denying Workers Basic Rights
Polly Smythe
Employment rights lost in the post.
Uber and Deliveroo Drivers Are Fearing for Their Lives – And the Apps Couldn’t Care Less
Polly Smythe
Not our problem.
Royal Mail is Using an App to Try and Break the Posties’ Strike
Polly Smythe
An app for scabs, neat!
From Plantation to Platform With Dalia Gebrial
The TyskySour co-host explores how platform capitalism depends on a racialised workforce.
Delivery Riders Are Striking All Over the Place
Polly Smythe
So would you if you were paid £3.70 an hour.
Deliveroo Thinks France Has the ‘Most Progressive’ Gig Economy. Deliveroo Has Been Fined for Workers’ Rights Abuses in France
Polly Smythe
The company was accused of “willful infringement” of employment law.
The ‘Uber Leaks’ Were No Surprise to Long Suffering Private Hire Drivers
Polly Smythe
"For years, Uber have shown their true colours."
Sheffield Food Couriers Are Waging the Longest Strike in the History of the Gig Economy
Callum Cant
‘If we want to win, it’s down to us.’
Starmer’s Reboot Speech
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial
Reclaiming Work
Cycle courier cooperatives are turning technology on the gig economy giants.
Freelance Work Has Always Been Precarious, Not Aspirational. Coronavirus Has Made That Clear
Sophie McKay
Coronavirus Shows How the Government Fails Precarious Workers
Beth Perkin and Charlotte England
