Door Dash offers £2.7bn for Deliveroo. Compare that to the £7.6bn IPO valuation in 2021. Just Eat, FreeNow and Gett all sold recently at huge losses in value. Bolt next? theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Door Dash are bidding to take over Deliveroo. But back in California, Uber is suing them for unfair competition. If even Uber finds Door Dash to be unethical & engaging in unfair competition, what will they do to Europe's many fine independent restaurants? about.doordash.com/en-us/news/ube…

A Zoox (Amazon’s self driving car subsidiary) car allegedly hit an immigrant food delivery worker on a moped last week in San Francisco. Under Prop 22, the worker neither gets the min wage nor workers’ compensation. What a dystopia!!!

The socialization of precarity may be forged through the sweat, blood, cramps & anxieties of migrant workers’ daily experiences – but it feeds on the desire for dignity, autonomy & security. Hence its insidious power. Out this International Workers’ Day from Panos Theodoropoulos ↓

The event is being hosted by Lee Barron. James Farrar James Farrar, of the Worker Info Exchange Worker Info Exchange, questions the use of the word "gig", adding everyone working in the economy are employees

We’re in parliament today for IOSH discussion on gig worker rights in the age of AI. Follow along ⬇️

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BREAKING: M&S warns customers their personal data has been taken by cyberattackers thegrocer.co.uk/news/mands-war…

PLP's Public Law and Technology Conference Afternoon breakout session: ▶️ Regulating the gig economy Secure your place now: lnkd.in/eYsW5ifJ

Solidarity with Grab and Gojek workers taking action in Indonesia today. reuters.com/business/world…

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Our article "Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work" has been published by Work, Employment & Society with Nick Martindale and BrendanBurchell

"Platform companies call themselves tech firms, but in practice they govern, control and profit from labor they claim not to own, without bearing employer responsibility." phys.org/news/2025-06-m…

🧵 Besides unacceptable job losses, Uber driverless vehicles would vastly increase urban congestion and would integrate Uber even further into the state/police intelligence apparatus to become an even bigger threat to civil liberties. 1/ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Support Migrant Gig Workers Under Attack in Northern Ireland gofundme.com/f/help-us-supp…

🧵 It's Saturday night in Ballymena and app delivery workers have barely worked since last Monday. While Uber, Deliveroo and Just Eat are online and so expose their minority workforce to risk of violence, most of the merchants have switched off. 1/

New - Oxford University research in partnership with Worker Info Exchange exposes deepening exploitation of Uber drivers by algorithmic pay workerinfoexchange.org/post/new-resea…

Uber was the original bad boy of the gig economy. Is it slipping? Researchers from Oxford University analysed data from 1.5 million trips and found that “dynamic pricing” boosts Uber’s profits but drivers and passengers lose out. Full story 👇 itv.com/news/2025-06-1…

Well, they would say that wouldn't they. Why doesn't Uber prove it by allowing publication of all journey data in the UK just as they must in New York, LA Chicago? taxi-point.co.uk/post/uber-reje…

Uber's 'dynamic pricing' slashes driver wages, study finds morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ubers-…