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
3 Cosas – the fight goes on
Film Length: 7:48 Outsourced workers at the University of London are angry – not just at the bosses who still won’t give them the basic rights taken for granted by directly employed workers, but at […]
Transport
Bus drivers strike against insulting pay offer
Running Time: 4mins 42secs Bus drivers in West London working for French company RATP have been forced into strike action to increase an insulting pay offer of just 0.5% – way lower than all the […]
France
Paris: High school students strike over education reforms
Film length: 13:18 French, with English subtitles/en français, sous-titré en anglais A lively, militant and peaceful strike by high school students made its presence felt in a very loud demonstration outside the academy rectorate in […]