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.
Tag: deliveroo
‘We’ve reached a tipping point’: Why Fast Food Workers Are Going on Strike
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
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
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?
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?
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
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’
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'.