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One of the ex-Uber drivers who won the case for workers to get minimum wage and sick pay told Insider: "I'm just a driver who spoke up for injustice."

Two ex-Uber drivers won a huge legal battle against the taxi app firm over workers rights. Yaseen Aslam and James Farrar began the case in 2016, fighting

Four food delivery platforms have been fined hundreds of millions of euros for breaching labour safety rules in Italy, with one prosecutor saying "we can no longer consider riders as slaves".

The UK’s highest court has delivered another benchmark judgment on gig workers. But the battle is not over.

The ride hailing firm has long claimed its taxi service drivers were ‘partners’ and so not entitled to rights normally given to workers

February 21, 2021 LONDON (AP) — Uber drivers in Britain are entitled to benefits like paid holidays and minimum wage, the country’s top court ruled on Friday, in a decision that threatens the company’s business model and holds broad implications for the gig economy. The ruling that the drivers should be classed as “workers” and not self-employed is a big defeat for the ride-hailing giant. And it could inspire similar legal action against other companies who rely on gig workers as well...

<strong>Editorial: </strong>Workers fighting to form the first union at an Amazon workplace in the US are pioneers in the battle to civilise big-tech capitalism

“We are not robots” was chosen as the slogan of a GMB-led campaign against dehumanising work practices at Amazon warehouses. But these days many of Amazon’s employees are, in effect, managed by them. Self-driving autonomous robots bring containers to workstations, dictating the rhythm at which items are stacked and sorted. Eliminating walking time for employees has helped Amazon to triple individual output. But the even more relentless pace has...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

A former Uber driver from High Wycombe who has spent six years battling the taxi giant over workers rights is celebrating an emphatic victory today.