CAB drivers demanded better safety protections at a protest in London today after the murder of one worker and the assault of several more in recent months.
Members of the United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) union targeted the offices of app-based taxi firm Bolt in Chiswick, west London, after the fatal stabbing of Gabriel Bringye by passengers using a fake account in February.
The following month, fellow driver Muhammad Alam was assaulted and had his car stolen at knifepoint by Bolt customers also using fake identities, with many other drivers reporting incidents of abuse and assault recently.
Mr Alam said he has since been scared to return to work, but he had no choice as he needed to support his family.
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Since 1985, trade union membership has fallen by one-half, on average, across OECD countries. Business interests have run persistent, well-funded campaigns against unions and captured much of the media and think-tank circuit. All told, these efforts have clearly succeeded in curtailing workers’ traditional rights and scope of representation. While employer-friendly “right to work” legislation has undermined unions’ ability to fund themselves, the widespread use of “contract labor” (like in India) has created a sprawling class of workers without job security or benefits, many of whom are deployed alongside permanent employees.
Global competition, automation, and market concentration are all weakening labor’s bargaining power. But labor’s collective strength has also been undercut by internal fragmentation. There is a sharp division between manufacturing production and transportation, on one hand, and service, retail, and caregiving, on the other.
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Deliveroo s orders and sales more than doubled in the first quarter of this year, in its first trading update since its disastrous debut on the London Stock Exchange last month.
The British food delivery start-up reported a 114 per cent surge in orders to 71 million in the first three months of 2021 from the same period a year ago – the fourth consecutive quarter of growth.
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The company’s gross transaction value rose 130 per cent year-on-year to £1.65 billion ($2.27bn), while the number of customers using the platform each month climbed by a record 91 per cent on the year to 7.1 million.
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