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 .
COP Mobilisations
Cycling instructors descend on City Hall to demand action on tumbling pay and conditions
Running Time: 5:32 Cycling instructors stage a protest cycle-ride from Trafalgar Square to City Hall to highlight tumbling pay and conditions – as well as a sudden 50% Transport for London cut to school cycling […]
Transport
BA Strike: Shocked MPs call cabin crew’s poverty pay “a national scandal”
Film length: 9:13 Around 200 British Airways cabin crew descended on Parliament for a meeting with MPs during their third strike over poverty pay. Shocked MPs called their £12K basic salary and horrendous conditions “a […]
Education
Save Our Sixth Form Colleges!
Film length: 13:34 Sixth Form Colleges are under attack. The latest cuts mean almost a quarter of the funding for sixth form colleges has gone since 2010, and now new Government “Area Reviews” mean colleges […]