Yesterday, striking food delivery couriers, employed by the JustEat subcontractor Stuart Delivery, demonstrated outside of the Sheffield Archer Roa…
Longest gig-economy strike escalates as Sheffield couriers blockade Sheffield McDonald’s
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London: Dalston delivery drivers to protest Hackney Mayor over lack of safe waiting areas
Dalston couriers working for app-based firms Deliveroo, UberEats, and JustEat are protesting tomorrow, 20th January, after being forced to wait for…
Sheffield and Blackpool: UK’s longest ever gig-economy pay strike resumes after secret pay talks exposed
The UK’s longest ever gig-economy pay strike resumes today as Sheffield and Blackpool couriers from the Independent Workers’ Union of G…
Glasgow: Foster care workers demand action over devastating 20% cut in child allowance
As Glasgow City Council begins deliberations over its 2022 budget to be announced in February, local foster care workers with the Independent Worke…
Sheffield JustEat Couriers Set to Strike Protest against “Shocking” Pay Cut
On Sunday 28 November at 12 noon, Sheffield food delivery couriers from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) are protesting…
IWGB Solidarity Squad welcomes allies to the fight for precarious and frontline workers
Yesterday, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) launched its Solidarity Squad: a network of allies and supporters of its mi…
Cycling instructors to stage protest cycle ride after TfL Cuts leave thousands of children without safe cycle training
This Friday, 29th October, cycling instructors are staging a protest cycle-ride from Trafalgar Square to City Hall after TfL suddenly slashed cycli…
Cleaners win back stolen wages after protesting in London Elizabeth Hotel lobby
Cleaners at London Elizabeth Hotel have won back £4,733 furlough wages they were denied by outsourced cleaning company Pridegreen after protesting…
Cleaners protest outside London Elizabeth Hotel over withheld furlough wages
Last Saturday, cleaners from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) protested outside of the London Elizabeth Hotel in Hyde Park …
Key worker couriers to protest Ocado over appalling treatment and poverty pay
On Thursday couriers who served as key workers for Ocado through the height of the pandemic will demonstrate at the Ocado Zoom depot in Acton from …
IWGB survey of key workers in courier sector reveals 9 in 10 have been harassed, with BAME workers hardest hit
A survey of 100 couriers conducted by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) highlights endemic harassment and abuse of gig worke…
IWGB launches #ShameOnOcado campaign as BAME key worker jobs threatened after whistleblowing on outsourcing and poverty pay
Ocado workers represented by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) at the corporation’s West London depot have voted to launch…
Drivers and couriers vow to escalate after protest at Uber HQ over unfair sacking of 200 key workers
Following the unfair dismissal of over 200 drivers and couriers by app-based operators this year, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain…
Cynical Uber cut pay as they give with one hand and take with the other, says IWGB
Earlier this week, Uber announced to drivers that their longest-serving drivers would see the service charge that they take from their pay increase…
Bolt hides from workers demanding safety protections after murder of driver
The United Private Hire Drivers Branch of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) protested on Tuesday 4 May outside Bolt offices …
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