Royal Mail subsidiary, eCourier, are classifying most of their couriers as “Independent Contractors” – so that they can unlawfully deny them the basic employment rights of a living wage, sick pay, holidays, pension and union recognition. eCourier have already lost a tribunal brought by the IWGB union where they admitted that one of their bike couriers was a worker – but now the couriers have been forced to take strike action to get them to stop operating iunlawfully. Couriers are having to work up to 80 hours a week for a decent wage in this appalling example of the gig economy – you can help them win by donating to the strike fund at bit.ly/courierfund.
Living Wage/Basic Rights
3 Cosas Campaign: University of London cleaners fight for basic rights
The start of a very important campaign. Having a fought and won the London living wage in a campaign involving protests, demonstrations and strike action, the mainly Latin-American cleaners at London University are now launching […]
Catalonia
Barcelona: Titanlux Strike ends in Victory
LATEST NEWS – TITANLUX WORKERS WIN!/ULTIMAS NOTICIAS – HAN GANADO LOS TRABAJADORES DE TITANLUX! Workers at the Titanlux paint factory have just won a famous victory. On 28th January they started an ALL OUT STRIKE […]
Cleaners/Outsourced workers
SOAS Outsourced Workers strike
Film length: 7:57 A solid two day strike as outsourced workers at the University of SOAS in London demand to be brought back in house. If the bosses are still not prepared to give the […]