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More than 200 Deliveroo workers took part in the IWGB protest this week, it claimed
The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain has claimed more than 200 Deliveroo riders joined its London protest on Thursday.
Hundreds more joined action in York, Sheffield, Reading and Wolverhampton, the union said, with an unknown number of Deliveroo couriers taking part “merely by not logging on to the app”.
In London, couriers on bicycles and scooters rode from Shoreditch to Finsbury Square, stopping to protest outside Deliveroo HQ in Dowgate Hill, as well as the London Stock Exchange and the offices of Deliveroo investors T Rowe Price. They also protested at the offices of Goldman Sachs, which The Financial Times this week reported bought about £75m in Deliveroo shares to prop up trading following the company’s disastrous IPO.
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By Edward Devlin2021-04-08T07:46:00+01:00
Deliveroo’s shares perked up on their first open day of trading, although the improvement was clouded by a strike by hundreds of its delivery riders (The Times £).
More than 200 Deliveroo couriers joined a demonstration in London, riding their bicycles and mopeds from the Deliveroo HQ in central London, according to the strike’s organisers, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (The Guardian).
Deliveroo drivers reveal the human cost of Will Shu’s ambition to become Britain’s food delivery king (The Telegraph).
Deliveroo shares staged a mini fightback as they traded freely for the first time following what has been dubbed London’s worst stock market debut (The Mail).