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 .
Cleaners/Outsourced workers
SOAS cleaners: third day of strike action
Film length: 6:24 “We’re not afraid of you anymore! The more you attack us, the stronger we become!” says Lenin Escudero, UNISON rep for the SOAS cleaners who are demanding to be brought back inhouse […]
Cleaners/Outsourced workers
SOAS: Don’t deport Jason!
Film length: 5:33 SOAS have refused visa sponsorship to a former student, Jason Moyer Lee, because he was active in cleaners campaigns. This is not the first time this so-called liberal institution has been complicit […]
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 […]