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.
Transport
Labour pledge full support to BA strikers
Film length: 5:35 John McDonnell pledged full support from the Labour party to striking mixed fleet cabin crew, as a number of Labour MPs joined them in front of Parliament to demand a decent living […]
Catalonia
Barcelona general strike: Cafes picketed out, roads blocked
Film length: 2:13 Just a few shots to give you a flavour of an incredible general strike in Barcelona, with the anti-capitalist left out in force throughout the city shutting down the few cafes that […]
Living Wage/Basic Rights
New 3 Cosas campaign at the Royal College of Music
Film length: 5:56 Outsourced workers in the IWGB at the Royal College of Music had to fight to win the London Living Wage earlier this week. Now they have a new struggle to win pensons, […]