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Give app-based workers fair rights urgently, global unions tell governments
Gig-economy workers are treated abysmally as app-based employers use underhanded definitions and loopholes in the law to duck their responsibilities. The platform...
GMB secures union recognition for 70,000 Uber drivers in UK
For the first time ever, Uber has entered into a formal trade union recognition agreement for the purpose of genuine collective bargaining. We congratulate our...
#Rights4Riders campaign delivering major blows to Deliveroo investment drive
Just days after riders announced a global network established by the ITF, #Rights4Riders, to protest the company’s business model, Deliveroo is facing setbacks to...
Food delivery riders to take action globally as major investors shun upcoming Deliveroo IPO
Deliveroo riders are taking coordinated international action to protest the company’s plans to profit from an IPO while denying them basic rights. On 26 March,...
Statement on Uber and the future of the gig economy
Statement from ITF General Secretary Stephen Cotton: “Uber’s announcement on Tuesday that it would classify British drivers as ‘workers’ is a watershed...
Deliveroo riders call out company for pandemic profiteering ahead of IPO
Riders facing poverty pay and dangerous work form global network to highlight Deliveroo’s exploitative business model to investors. Deliveroo and its early...
After UK Supreme Court defeat, Uber should abandon its predatory business model globally
Following this morning’s UK Supreme Court ruling that Uber drivers are workers, not self-employed contractors, global union federation representing 20 million...
Deliveroo riders win employment status case in Dutch court
In another ruling against the misclassification of food delivery riders’ employment status, the verdict from the Amsterdam Court of Appeal has confirmed that...