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Economics

Ben Wray – Unions Must Change in the Age of Finance

March 25, 2021 MDRose 0

Financialisation has changed the relationship between bosses and workers. Unions must change to face these realities argues Ben Wray, in a review of a new study of these problems. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist […]

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Finance

International Transport Workers’ Federation – Food delivery riders to take action globally as major investors shun upcoming Deliveroo IPO

March 25, 2021 MDRose 0

Riders are fed up with poverty pay and exploitation, while investors say Deliveroo’s business model is too risky International Day of Action 26 March 2021 Read here

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Alex Foti – The Italian Riders Strike was a historic day

March 24, 2021 MDRose 0

Alex Foti reports from Italy’s riders strike on Friday [March 26], which saw delivery workers refuse to respond to the app across the country in a major show of union power. Alex Foti is a […]

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Carlos Rodríguez: Uber won’t win in Barcelona

March 21, 2021 MDRose 0

Following the taxi protest on Thursday [18 March] against Uber’s return to Barcelona (read more here), it has been revealed that the global ride-hail platform has not been operating in the city since it officially […]

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Gig Economy Project – Taxis shutdown Barcelona to oppose Uber’s ‘illegal’ re-entry

March 18, 2021 MDRose 0

Uber is back in the Catalan capital after being pushed out in 2019, but Barcelona’s taxi leader says “there will be war and it will not stop” if they don’t leave again. The Gig Economy Project, led […]

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Finance

GMB Union – Uber agrees to classify UK 70,000 drivers as workers with benefits

March 16, 2021 MDRose 0

Uber has announced that from tomorrow, all 70,000 drivers will be paid holiday time, be automatically enrolled into a pension plan and will earn at least the minimum wage. But the full Supreme Court decision […]

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EU politics

Gig Economy Project – Uber U-turns, classifying UK drivers as workers

March 16, 2021 MDRose 0

Uber change in policy is a first and could have international shock waves, but the company still fell short of full compliance with the UK Supreme Court ruling last month. The Gig Economy Project, led […]

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Corruption

Carlos Rodríguez: Uber no ganará en Barcelona

March 14, 2021 MDRose 0

Tras la protesta de los taxistas el jueves [18 de marzo] contra el regreso de Uber a Barcelona (leer más aquí), se ha revelado que la plataforma global de viajes compartidos no ha operado en […]

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EU politics

Gig Economy Project – Unions and employers agree ‘Riders Law’ with the Spanish Government

March 11, 2021 MDRose 0

Spain’s ‘Riders Law’ is finally agreed after the ‘social dialogue’ process between unions, employers and the government yielded an agreement, but neither all riders nor all digital platforms are happy with the outcome. The Gig […]

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Finance

Corporate Watch – Deliveroo: we profile the dodgy delivery firm set to cash in on the stock market

March 11, 2021 MDRose 0

Few companies have had a better pandemic than Deliveroo. Back in March 2020 the food delivery firm was close to going out of business – then came the COVID-19 lockdown and the boom in home […]

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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, and Doug Nicholls

September 4, 2026 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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