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Kirsten Sehnbruch – Will Labour secure workers’ rights for the 21st century?

October 23, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill won’t resolve the inequalities that characterise Britain’s labour market. Kirsten Sehnbruch is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. During […]

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Moira Lavelle – Greek Unions Want Paid Time Off When It’s Too Hot to Work

August 5, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Greece’s latest heat wave in July highlighted the danger of 100°F-plus temperatures for workers toiling in the sun. Trade unions are proposing a sensible solution: mandatory, paid stoppages on outdoor work when temperatures reach dangerous […]

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The Brussels Appeal: Proposal from the Forum on Alternatives to Uberisation, 21-22 February 2024

March 4, 2024 Ben Wray 1

Following the fourth Transnational Alternatives to Uberisation forum, which took place 21-22 February 2024, some of the participant organisations of the platform workers’ movement have prepared the following statement – The Brussels Appeal – to […]

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Gig Economy Project – ‘A middle finger to the apps’: UK sees historic riders’ strike

February 3, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Powerful grassroots-organised strike saw customers complaining they couldn’t access the app and Deliveroo’s ‘dark kitchens’ shutdown. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers in Europe. Click here to find out […]

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Alessandra Mezzadri: Debt, wage theft and coercion drive the global garment industry – the only answer is collective action

January 24, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The use of forced labour within garment supply chains is quite common. The good news is some workers are fighting back effectively. Alessandra Mezzadri is a Reader in Global Development and Political Economy, SOAS, University […]

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EU politics

In Copenhagen, riders are campaigning for international students to have an equal right-to-work

December 7, 2023 Ben Wray 0

With tuition fees reaching over €10,000 per year in one of the most expensive cities in Europe, riders who are non-EEA international students say they need to work more than the permitted 20 hours a […]

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Gig Economy

‘La Grande Livraison (The Great Delivery)’ by European riders is delivering hope – Statement from Korean platform workers

November 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Alliance for Korean Platform Workers for a better tomorrow has issued a statement in solidarity with European riders participating in ‘The Great Delivery’, a 400 kilometre journey from Paris to Brussels to demand platform […]

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Lucas García Alcalde: There are lessons to learn from Getir’s Spanish exit 

August 24, 2023 Ben Wray 0

For the past two years, Lucas García Alcalde has been reporting on Spain’s grocery delivery sector for ‘Business Insider’. Following Getir’s exit from Spain in July just two years after its entry, Alcalde writes for […]

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Gig Economy

Gig Economy Project – Flink: As bad as Gorillas?

March 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Two Flink couriers and Works Council founders have been fired, ostensibly for speaking publicly about poor working conditions. Is Flink any better than the scandal-ridden and now-defunct Gorillas? And does German labour law really protect […]

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Gig Economy Project – Wolt: Trade union activist has account terminated for “taking every opportunity to criticise”

November 11, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Copenhagen food delivery courier Rasmus Emil Hjorth claims his account was terminated at Wolt for trade union organising A courier and trade union activist in Copenhagen, Denmark has had his account terminated by Wolt for […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

April 21, 2025 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

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