Slave-drivers! Hundreds of cyclists who deliver for Uber Eats, Glovo, and Deliveroo protest in Madrid and inform people about their situation, November, 2018. Lito Lizana/Press Association. All rights reserved.
Platform workers are getting organised, and not always through a trade union. Recent research from the European Trade Union Institute indicates that digital platforms, harbingers of increasing precarity in the labour market, have also become sites of creativity and experimentation in the labour movement.
The workplace is the traditional centre of trade union organising. The shared experience of working for the same employer, in the same office or factory, with the same clock ticking away the eight hours, has formed the foundation for collective organisation. However, for a significant part of the population, going to work today does not mean the same thing as it did 20, much less 50 years ago.
