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 .
Education
Hackney Council: Stop closing all our schools!
Running time: 7 mins 25 secs Staff at St. Dominic’s primary school in Hackney, North-East London are on strike to try and stop the school being closed by an increasingly out of touch and callous […]
Culture Sector
Workers at National Museums Wales on all out indefinite strike
Film length: 4:37 Workers at 7 museum sites in Wales are on all out indefinite strike after management withdrew weekend working unsocial hours payments. It will mean a 15% cut in wages for people who […]
Cleaners/Outsourced workers
LSE cleaners strike
Film length: 6:08 Cleaners at the LSE are striking for equality. The outsourced workers, members of the UVW,: have now taken seven days of strike action in support of their demand for the same sick […]