President of the amazing
@IWGBunion
. 8 years as a courier in London. Fighting for workers rights 24/7 He/him. Bosses beware, the workers are coming!Views my own
Deleted tweet by
@Deliveroo
. Realised that making fun of workers being forced to work for multiple apps at the same time because pay is so bad wasn't the best idea? Multi-apping is incredibly stressful & if workers were paid enough & not denied basic rights, they wouldnt do it!
Wonderful scenes of the food delivery workers strike coming in from all over London. Workers have had enough and all communities are coming together to demand an end to the poverty pay and exploitative conditions
Valentines strike is on! Let’s go London. NO LOVE FOR DELIVEROO, UBER EATS, JUST EAT! Workers have had enough and are coming together to take back what is theirs from the bloodsucking bosses!
IMMIGRATION RAID HAPPENING NOW IN HACKNEY KINGSLAND RD/ASHWIN ST JUNCTION.
3 people have been detained and crowds gathering to resist. If you are nearby please get down. We need people! SHARE SHARE SHARE
Yesterday we arrived at the Deliveroo kitchens in Battersea to this-police out in numbers to try break the strike. Again we see that when workers get organised & take action, the state intervenes to defend multinational corporations. This only brought the workers closer together!
IMMIGRATION RAID HAPPENING NOW IN HACKNEY KINGSLAND RD/ASHWIN ST JUNCTION.
3 people have been detained and crowds gathering to resist. If you are nearby please get down. We need people! SHARE SHARE SHARE
ICYMI here is the now deleted tweet by
@JustEatUK
CEO
@jitsegroen
joking about one of his workers riding on a treacherous road, risking his life for pittance pay. Workers are usually paid to follow predetermined routes & deviating can lead to being fired.
Hey
@Keir_Starmer
, just got fired after a completely corrupt process of blatant trade union detriment and victimisation for whistleblowing to keep couriers alive. All happened at multimillion pound private health company TDL in your constituency. Bit of help would be great 👍
Valentines strike now circling Parliament. Growing all the time.
@Deliveroo
,
@UberEats
etc claim they pay well & there is zero scrutiny of these false claims. The Government sit back & are complicit in this exploitation of thousands. We will not stand for it!
Apparently
@Ocado
CEO Tim Steiner can’t stand people knowing he gave the Tories £100k so here is a great article in the
@PrivateEyeNews
to read & share 🤗
Meanwhile the majority BAME Ocado workforce in west london have had pay cut. Steiner robs from the poor to give to the rich
Tonight Ive heard of an incident where a migrant courier was beaten up in a restaurant so badly an ambulance has been called, & another incident where a migrant courier was smashed by a car. Its such a dangerous job & people do it with no rights & often for less than minimum wage
Another inspirational video of last nights food delivery strikes- this one in Brighton. Starting in the Brazilian community in South London, the decision to strike spread fast over the course of the week mobilising thousands of workers all over the UK by last night 🧵
Riders still joining! This is the voice of the majority of workers. They are fed up of risking their lives for poverty pay and will shut down all apps until they get better pay, conditions and respect!
When I started at my old company TDL I was on £80 a day with no rights. After unionising & upping pressure, I was on £120 a day with 28 days paid holiday, pension, a recognition agreement that paid me 9 hours a week for union activities, and other bits. Unionising works! ✊
On Valentines Day food delivery couriers will be striking with the intention of causing major disruption on the busiest night of the year.
@Deliveroo
& others are terrified after the success of round one. Deliveroo prefer to gaslight & divide rather than engage with workers 🧵
Hey
@Keir_Starmer
I heard the person involved in your collision is a
@Deliveroo
courier. Did you know these guys are given no help by their employer in these situations? Perhaps make amends by throwing your weight behind
@IWGB_CLB
push for better pay and conditions for couriers😀
If only the authorities put as much effort into enforcing employment law and ending exploitation as they do in targeting low paid precarious workers who are desperately trying to make a living..
Following numerous complaints about fast food delivery riders we conducted an operation in
#tooting
this afternoon with immigration enforcement.
In 90 mins we stopped
48 bikes.
2 were seized for no insurance
3 riders reported for offences
2 x arrests for immigration offences
Hey
@maitlis
, great to see you bigging up a
@Deliveroo
courier but thought you might like to know a few facts about what conditions these key workers operate under after plugging their exploitative employer to your 418.9k followers (Thread)
Getting contacted by couriers working 50+ hours per week for
@Deliveroo
&
@UberEats
who are choosing between buying food & keeping their house warm for brief time they are in it between working. The fight for better pay is about survival. This is the reality of the gig economy.
“Fringe organisation” & now a “self appointed union!”
@Deliveroo
’s desperate PR team reduced to name calling. Whatever you call us, we are responsible for knocking £3 billion off your valuation and making workers rights the focal point of your IPO 🤗🥰😜
The so-called “gig economy” is dressed up as innovation as it brings customers what they want at the click of a button, but the main innovation has been the dismantling of workers rights in order to exploit on a huge scale. It’s regression not progression
There is no bigger betrayal than calling your workforce heroes for providing a vital service throughout the pandemic while exploiting them and denying them basic workers rights
(1) Not only is this courier underpaid and mistreated by
@UberEats
he now has
@piersmorgan
piling in on him in public. Inaccurate delivery time is not the couriers fault. Was probably given a “stacked” order which is UberEats way of forcing drivers to do two jobs for less money..
Ordered a Big Mac via
@UberEats
an hour ago.
ETA was '20 minutes'.
Now spent past 40 minutes watching my delivery rider waltz his way around West London. He's currently further away than when he picked it up.
My burger's not going to be hot, is it? Or even f*cking lukewarm.
In the past there was racial segregation in jobs where certain labour was done by people of colour. Decades on we see the same racial division happening in plain sight but now its called “outsourcing” and the “gig economy”.
There will be more strikes & they will continue to spread across towns, cities and industries until the workers take back the pay that is being taken from them by bloodsucking bosses. Yesterday was amazing & I recommend you get out for the next round! ✊🔥❤️
To the
@Deliveroo
team...Fair warning...We are currently planning strike action in multiple cities across the UK which it’s in your interest to stop us doing, by convincing us we don’t need to by improving pay & conditions.
You have my number.
You have until Wednesday to use it
1) Thanks for all your support with the
#ShameOnOcado
campaign so far. Here’s a thread of the timeline leading to the campaign & exposing some of the cruel tactics
@Ocado
are using to try & either force HUGE pay cuts on these key workers or force them out all together!
Anyone else feeling buzzing after the inspirational strikes by
@RMTunion
today? Incredible pickets everywhere and Mick Lynch schooling anti strike interviews left, right and centre. These strikes are not just for the members, but for workers everywhere!
#SummerOfStrikes
Cyclist sits around unpaid waiting for a job. Finally cyclist is sent a job and cycles to collect it. Still unpaid. Arrives at job & sees ridiculous size of order would be impossible for cyclist to carry. Has to reject job. Still unpaid. Goes back to waiting for a job. Unpaid
How the F does
@UberEats
and
@IcelandFoods
expect a scooter or even a cyclist to carry these packed out heavy bags as far as as Bermondsey/4.3miles away from this location for £5/£6. This is what slave labour looks like.
@IWGB_CLB
and this happens all the time.
Welcome to the longest U.K. gig economy strike Dewsbury!! So much love for the
@Stuart_Delivery
workers getting organised and fighting back ✊🔥❤️
Support the spread of the strike and donate what you can:
Day 14 COMPLETE(2 weeks straight!)
✊17 simultaneous pickets across 4 cities/towns
✊100s of workers on strike
✊£1000s lost by
@McDonaldsUK
✊Solidarity pouring in from around the 🌎
✊Over £11k in donations for the strikers
THIS IS THE LONGEST STRIKE IN THE GIG ECONOMY ✊❤️
Shout out to all the front line workers keeping things going today. Also, to all those workers bogusly classified as independent contractors who will be having to take unpaid leave today. We will keep fighting for better for these workers! ✊❤️
✊Extend furlough scheme and pay 100% wages
✊Make SEISS accessible to ALL self employed
✊Full pay on sick pay
✊Increase universal credit
✊Extend eviction ban
✊Right to food
This is the minimum to properly protect people. Telling us to just stay home is not enough!
Having couriered for 8 years the sight of snow automatically makes me think of all the workers having to make tough decisions to either work through dangerous conditions or not earn anything by staying home & safe. This burden could so easily be removed with better pay & rights!
The
@metoffice
issues a Red warning due to high winds meaning a real “danger to life”. People urged to stay home.
Meanwhile
@JustEatUK
are offering bonus incentives to workers who get out & risk their lives
Gig economy showing now respect for workers lives whatever the weather
Two cleaners have been denied 5 months wages by their employer
@TheLEHotel
so we turned up to SHAME them in front of everyone staying their. Management have now said the wages will be paid on Monday…if not we will be back with more people and more NOISE!
Today at
@TheLEHotel
shaming them for exploiting its low paid cleaners and withholding their wages unlawfully.
Management have promised to pay their wages by Monday, and we made it clear that if they don’t, we will be back!✊️
Nearly 1,000 undocumented Uber Eats delivery workers demonstrating in Paris today demanding regularisation. 3000 have been fired over the summer. The platforms exploit these workers precarious situation all around the world. No one is illegal & all workers deserve rights!
Plusieurs livreurs Uber manifestent à Paris, en vélo & moto, pour réclamer leur régularisation et dénoncer les suspensions arbitraires de leurs comptes de livraison. Ils se mobilisent aussi pour une amélioration de leurs conditions de travail & de rémunération.
#UberEatsEnColere
The reality of being a gig worker: you can’t even afford enough fuel to drop off an order & ask the customer for help. Rather than helping you, customer calls it harassment & looks to get worker disciplined. When did a burger become more important than a persons livelihood?
Food delivery strikes tonight from 1700-2200.
Get yourself hyped by watching this video from the Valentines strike where workers delivered some LOVE to
@Deliveroo
CEO Will Shu’s house. Find your local picket tonight & show some support 🔥❤️✊
It is an absolute privilege to announce that I have been elected to become President of the amazing
@IWGBunion
! I look forward to sharing all the love and support I have been given and continuing to bulldoze exploitative employers. Bosses beware! Onwards! ✊✊✊
What’s this??
@RoyalMail
using notorious exploitative gig economy employer
@rydedelivers
to try break the upcoming
@CWUnews
strikes! Would be a real shame if people signed up to these shifts & didn’t show up tomorrow 😗
No worker should be forced to choose between putting food on the table & spreading a deadly virus
Employers like
@Deliveroo
&
@UberEats
have profited during the pandemic on the backs of low paid workers. They must introduce isolation pay to protect workers, public & slow spread
1)As we enter a 2nd lockdown the courier industry is facing the SAME problems as last time. Couriers will be hailed as key workers as they risk lives to provide a vital service for uncertain pay and demand with little to no help from government & employers
Delivery workers are paid to take the route that is predetermined by companies and deviating can lead to being fired. Often these routes can take the worker to dangerous places as the “tech” doesn’t pick up vehicle type. Here we see
@JustEatUK
CEO making light of this 🤦🏻♂️
This video shows that people are getting so used to abusing
@Deliveroo
riders that it has now become a source of entertainment 😞
When your employer treats you as disposable, it seems others think it’s ok to do so too
#ClappedAndScrapped
Amazing scenes of solidarity as the
@iwgbucl
meets the
@ucu
picket outside
@ucl
. Workers coming together to demand an end to exploitative conditions chanting “One University, one workforce!”
.
@Deliveroo
riders have worked throughout the pandemic helping the public get through these difficult times. Today they rode for themselves ✊✊✊
#DeliverooStrike
Key workers told to take daily tests but many are provided with no sick pay if they have covid. Pointless measures unless these key workers given the financial support to isolate when needed. No one should have to choose between putting food on the table & spreading the virus!
Workers who have always been absolutely essential to society using the increased importance of their labour as leverage to force through better pay and conditions….INSPIRING STUFF! Keep that key worker direct action coming! ✊✊✊
Day SEVEN of
@SYorksCouriers
strike against
@Stuart_Delivery
in Sheffield
✊Whole week of pickets
✊Longest UK gig worker strike
✊
@McDonaldsUK
shutting down deliveries
✊Strike spreading to different cities for week 2
Please keep donating to these heroes
Parirs, just 25 & chair of the
@IWGB_CLB
Sheffield branch, has been relentless in the fight for justice against
@JustEatUK
subcontractor
@Stuart_Delivery
. The pressure from the strikes forced the head of Stuart UK to meet with Parirs where he demanded a reverse to the cuts
1)A BIG week for
@IWGB_CLB
saw
@Deliveroo
members vote to take strike action. Also, a tool we developed was used in an investigation by the
@bureaulocal
to uncover the exploitative practices of Deliveroo showing 1 in 3 riders make less than min wage! 😫
This is the harsh reality of the gig economy. Couriers & private hire drivers are promised flexibility but end up working a lot more hours than employees & most the time for way less than minimum wage.
@Deliveroo
are capitalising on people’s desperation & exploiting en masse
Coverage from the courier strike on Wednesday.
Organised by a group of Brazilian riders in London, it soon spread like wildfire to become the biggest strike the UK has seen.
The IWGB was built on this kind of grassroots action - we know from experience it's what gets results
A piece I wrote for the
@guardian
about the leak of
#UberFiles
that have exposed the corruption many of us always knew about. While
@Uber
are in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, lets not forget all the other companies who are just as bad (thread)
Did you know
@marksandspencer
own 50% of
@Ocado
?
Also, did you know that yesterday the
@IWGBunion
took the
#ShameOnOcado
campaign to the M&S London headquarters & shamed them for their part in the mistreatment of key workers? SHAME ON M&S, FIX YOUR OCADO MESS! We’ll be back 🤗
Today we ride for the many beautiful souls who lost their lives while working as couriers. The industry attracts some people who have mental health issues who find in couriering a job they feel they can do while living with their demons. For some, the work helps them get better..
This tweet by the CEO of
@JustEatUK
epitomises the utter contempt these bosses have for riders & just how disposable they think these key workers are. We are fighting for the most basic rights while these millionaires laugh at riders risking their lives for pennies
On the 23rd May, food delivery workers will be taking to the street to protest outside Deliveroo’s AGM. While the fat cat bosses celebrate the money they have made from the mass exploitation of their workforce, workers will be coming together to show they will not accept it!
Beautiful scenes at another successful immigration resistance. People have had enough of the hostile environment and are taking action to resolve things from the ground up. Positive change comes from communities coming together and resisting oppression ✊❤️
He’s just been released! And he’s back in his house.
Fucking hell. People really turned up. It was touch and go earlier, when there were only a few people. But people came in enough numbers.
They will be back, here and elsewhere. Spread the word, show up and stop them again
✊☀️ Weekend inspiration ☀️ ✊
Organised workers at
@Pret
threaten strike action and win back the bonuses they had been stripped of. Just shows what organising & flexing that worker power can do! These companies are NOTHING without their workforce 💥
Large parts of your workforce struggle to afford even the most basic food. The way you employ your workers is plunging them into working poverty. We hear of workers forced to use food banks, struggling to pay bills & some, like Nick, are working & homeless
💔BOYCOTT JUST EAT TODAY 💔
Couriers working for Just Eat subcontractor
@Stuart_Delivery
have suffered a 24% pay cut while CEO
@damienbon_
makes over £2mill a year & the company has £7mill sat in the bank!
#NoLoveForJustEat
this Valentines! Spread the word ✊
Recently
@JustEatUK
decided to change the way they employed couriers & opt for the more exploitative model of the likes of
@UberUK
Clearly so eager to replicate the rights stripping methods, Just Eat have literally copy & pasted from Uber (& forgot to edit!) 😂
This is not an “accident”, its the direct result of corporate greed that put profits before people. UK disputes are about safety as well as pay, yet the gov & corporations continue to silence workers & steamroll in their endless pursuit of profits that treats people as disposable
On February 3, a horrifying railroad accident took place. A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. You might've seen images of the flames, but you probably haven't heard that unions were trying to prevent this exact accident. 🧵
Damien Bon, CEO of
@Stuart_Delivery
, is on a salary of over £2.2million. This means that 7 days into 2022 he has already made £42,843. This is more than the average Stuart courier will make in a whole year & still he is cutting their pay!
🔥Strikes are starting again on Monday🔥
Was in Tesco buying dinner & got talking to an elderly lady digging through the last reduced items. She said “looks like Im eating old scotch eggs tonight. Its like they are trying to exterminate us.” I said its either that or a revolution. She said “Im ready when you are”✊❤️
Next food delivery strikes have been announced for the 23/2. With more cities and towns looking to jump on the strike wave I am expecting this to be even bigger than the last two. Spread the word with workers where you are & support on the day. LETS GO!! 🔥✊❤️
The vast majority of gig workers are migrants. On Friday Deliveroo sent out these cynical comms to incite the racist, abusive sentiment workers are subjected to daily in a deliberate attempt to vilify workers & encourage people to call the police on strikers.
EMPLOYMENT TIP: Stop denying your workers rights and treating them as disposable to avoid being “the most protested platform in the world” and having the “worst IPO in London’s history.”
HUGE WIN FOR THE WORKERS as
@UberUK
admit defeat & give workers the rights they have always deserved. This shows the you can have flexibility AND rights & sets a precedent for the rest of the gig economy. Time for
@Deliveroo
& the rest to follow suit!
Often these routes can take the worker to dangerous places as the “tech” doesn’t pick up vehicle type. This tweet is particularly bad taste in the same week that we lost
@Deliveroo
rider Marcos Mateus Alves who was killed in a crash in South London
Was great to chat to
@OwenJones84
about the exploitation that goes on in getting that
@amazon
package to your front door! Spoiler alert: the workers that get it to you are worked to the bone and paid poverty wages 😫
However
@IWGB_CLB
is organising Amazon drivers to fight back!
While tens of thousands die, businesses from Amazon to private contractors are making a packet out of the pandemic.
This is the story they don't want you to see.
Powerful day yesterday standing side by side with so many incredible people who will not stand for this assault on their right to protest. This is an attack on low paid workers & marginalised communities who use protest to end oppression. Yesterday showed we will not be silenced!
Someone needs to put “Grenfell forever in our hearts” on the Churchill box so Parliament are reminded everyday about the people who died and have still received no justice. A much better use of that space
#JusticeForGrenfell
Changing the law to suppress the dissent of workers rather than actively engaging with them to improve working conditions and avert strikes shows just what kind of authoritarian, profit over people state we are up against. We will not be silenced & will only fight harder! ✊
(3)
@UberEats
drivers are not paid for waiting times and
@McDonalds
are notoriously bad for making couriers wait (outside in the rain) for long times. In fact so bad there is currently a boycott happening in Wolverhampton
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
@UberEats
couriers in Wolverhampton are boycotting all
@McDonalds
restaurants. Boycott going for just over an hour and management have already been out and have said they will get UberEats to call and settle this ASAP. THEY CANT HANDLE THE COLLECTIVE ACTION✊
On the night of the Valentines strike I tried to access the Battersea dark kitchen from this entrance but police had blocked it & said a dispersal order was in place. I’ve been told no dispersal order was in place. This misinformation was a clear attempt to scare protestors away
Yesterday we arrived at the Deliveroo kitchens in Battersea to this-police out in numbers to try break the strike. Again we see that when workers get organised & take action, the state intervenes to defend multinational corporations. This only brought the workers closer together!
Amazing strike solidarity football tournament yesterday organised by
@ClaptonCFC
/Queerspece/Deptford Ravens. Security guards at
@ucl
are set to strike mid November & all money raised goes to their strike fund. Please donate here
Would be good if instead of prioritising shaming a low paid worker who is probably struggling to make ends meet, they went after the multimillion pound companies like
@Deliveroo
&
@UberUK
that are flagrantly ignoring employment law & exploiting workers by the thousands..
Another inspirational video of last nights food delivery strikes- this one in Brighton. Starting in the Brazilian community in South London, the decision to strike spread fast over the course of the week mobilising thousands of workers all over the UK by last night 🧵
Just stormed a
@gorillasapp
warehouse in Shoreditch in solidarity with
@GorillasWorkers
and to demand that unfairly fired worker Santi is given his job back! Had some good chats with the workers too to spread the word. We will be back 😜
#WeWantSantiBack
1)Couriers have provided a vital service throughout the pandemic delivering food to the vulnerable, the sick and the public to keep them safe. However couriers' employers have done very little to look after them