Campaigns

TfL Licence Delays Compensation Claim

TfL Licence Delays Compensation Claim

TfL’s licensing delays have left thousands of private hire drivers unable to work, often for many months. The consequences have been devastating. Some drivers have been forced to sell their vehicles, fall into debt, move home, leave the UK, and in at least one tragic case, fellow driver Rob Dale ...
ECourier Worker Status Claim for Compensation

ECourier Worker Status Claim for Compensation

Leve-me para a página em português.To join the claim, sign up below.Who can join:If you currently work for eCourier on a self-employed basis, or you were working for eCourier but left the company within the past ten weeks, you can join this group legal claim. You will need to be a member of the I...
Reivindicação de compensação por status de trabalhador da ECourier

Reivindicação de compensação por status de trabalhador da ECourier

Para participar da reivindicação, inscreva-se abaixo.Quem pode participar:Se você trabalha atualmente para a eCourier como autônomo ou trabalha para a eCourier, mas deixou a empresa nas últimas dez semanas, você pode participar desta reivindicação legal coletiva.Informações básicas:Em 2017, em re...
Valentine's Day Driver Log-Off

Valentine's Day Driver Log-Off

Drivers working for platforms including Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee are planning to log off and refuse work this Valentine’s Day to demand better pay and conditions.The 14th of February log off was first announced by Addison Lee drivers belonging to the IWGB union, following a previous log off in ...
RESPEITO E DIGNIDADE: Support the eCourier strike!

RESPEITO E DIGNIDADE: Support the eCourier strike!

"For years, our company, eCourier, has been denying me and my colleagues our basic rights by illegally misclassifying us as independent contractors. In 2017, eCourier, owned by Royal Mail, were found to have broken the law in not classifying as workers, and committed to an internal investigation....
Parcelforce pay claim

Parcelforce pay claim

If you are currently an owner driver doing delivery work for Parcelforce, or have done in the last ten weeks, you may be eligible to make a claim for compensation.We believe that owner drivers working for Parcelforce have been wrongly classified, and therefore are owed money they should have been...
Boycott the Royal Society of Arts

Boycott the Royal Society of Arts

The Royal Society of Arts is at a tipping point. In the last two years, the historic organisation has been attracting press for all the wrong reasons: refusing to engage in good faith with the staff union who are on strike for first time in 270 years, breaking the law by illegally firing an emplo...
The Migrant Worker's Guide

The Migrant Worker's Guide

Welcome to the Migrant Worker's Guide. Working in the UK as a migrant can come with many challenges, from legal issues and language barriers, to healthcare costs and heightened risk of exploitation. This page is a starting point to help you find all the information and services you need as a migr...
Reivindicação de Compensação do Just Eat

Reivindicação de Compensação do Just Eat

Se você está atualmente trabalhando para o Just Eat, ou trabalhou nas últimas dez semanas, você pode fazer uma reivindicação por compensação.Em fevereiro de 2021, a Suprema Corte decidiu que os motoristas de táxi da Uber seriam classificados como trabalhadores. Trabalhadores têm direito a certas ...
Fair Pay for RSA!

Fair Pay for RSA!

On 19th September 2023, workers at RSA staged the first industrial action at the organisation in its 270 year history.This came after months of attempts to delegitimise and weaken the democratic mandate of the workers by rejecting repeated requests for recognition, obstructing and delaying during...
Just Eat Compensation Claim

Just Eat Compensation Claim

Leve-me para a página em português.If you currently work for Just Eat, or have done in the last ten weeks, you can make a claim for compensation.In February 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that Uber taxi drivers would be classified as workers. Workers are entitled to certain legal protections and b...
Join the Bolt backdated pay claim

Join the Bolt backdated pay claim

If you currently drive for Bolt, or have done in the last ten weeks, you may be eligible to make a claim for compensation for backdated pay. If you would like to be part of the claim, then sign up below!UPHD has negotiated a deal with major legal firm Leigh Day to represent our members on a “no w...
LSHTM strike: End discrimination! Fair pay now!

LSHTM strike: End discrimination! Fair pay now!

We are cleaners, porters, post-room and security staff at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). We are a majority Black, Asian, Latin American and migrant workforce. Many of us have worked for years at LSHTM and we work hard to keep this university running. We are fighting for...
Stop the cycle training cuts!

Stop the cycle training cuts!

22 March 2022: Cycling instructors, service users, environmental campaigners and leaders in the sector are coming to together to call on policymakers to axe devastating 100% city-wide cuts to in-person cycle training proposed in a recent Transport for London meeting.Amidst the cost of living cris...
Justice for London Bridge Hospital cleaners

Justice for London Bridge Hospital cleaners

Cleaners at London Bridge Hospital are whistleblowing on Covid safety violations and launching a new campaign!They are demanding that London Bridge Hospital immediately address health and safety concerns, end the culture of bullying and overwork, pay £12.50/hr with the same terms and conditions ...
Stuart Strike: Pay rise not pay cut!

Stuart Strike: Pay rise not pay cut!

The UK's longest-running gig economy strike has been going from strength to strength.Couriers began strike action back on 6 December 2021 after Stuart cut the minimum delivery pay by 24%, from £4.50 to just £3.40. The strike has already won its demands for paid waiting times and a resolution to ...
Gabriel's Campaign for Driver Safety

Gabriel's Campaign for Driver Safety

On 17 February 2021 private hire driver Gabriel Bringye was stabbed while on a job for Bolt.It's been two years since this tragic murder and Bolt have done very little to implement adequate safety for drivers. Gabriel's murder was shocking and saddening for all private hire drivers and his family...
Fair deal for Glasgow foster carers

Fair deal for Glasgow foster carers

In Glasgow foster carers are coming together to fight for a fairer deal for foster carers and the young people we look after. Glasgow’s system of foster care is in crisis. A decade-long pay freeze is forcing foster carers out of fostering altogether, meaning Glasgow City Council has to rely on hu...
#ShameOnOcado

#ShameOnOcado

Outsourced Ocado couriers in Acton are demanding that Ocado fully in-house all drivers and riders and meet demands for fair pay and just working conditions. All workers in-house Pay what was promised when they started Union recognition for the IWGB Fair distribution of jobs Due process and clear...
Reclaiming Our Roads

Reclaiming Our Roads

Anonymous accounts of the daily sexism and harassment of women & non-binary delivery couriers.We raise our voices together to demand that the companies we deliver for:1) Take responsibility for our safety;2) Improve rider support, with human contact instead of automated messages;3) Allow us t...
Addison Lee compensation claim

Addison Lee compensation claim

If you currently drive for Addison Lee - as a courier or as a private hire driver - or have done in the last ten weeks, you may be eligible to make a claim for compensation.UPHD has negotiated a deal with major legal firm Leigh Day to represent our members on a “no win, no fee” basis, with only 2...
End the freeze, Enfield!

End the freeze, Enfield!

We are cycling instructors who work for Enfield Council’s outsourced cycle training provider. We work for Enfield delivering Bikeability courses to primary schools, delivering adult cycle sessions, delivering Dr Bike mechanic sessions, Safe Urban Driving courses for HGV drivers, complete beginner...
Limpiadorxs Unidxs

Limpiadorxs Unidxs

Foto del lanzamiento de la campaña en mayo del 2021Limpiadorxs unidxs es una coalición formada por una serie de sindicatos como United, PCS y el sindicato IWGB junto a organizaciones ciudadanas que trabajan juntas para mejorar las condiciones laborales de lxs limpiadorxs.Unidxs haremos campaña pa...
Cleaners United

Cleaners United

Photo from the campaign launch in May 2021Cleaners United is a new national alliance of trade unions including Unite, PCS and IWGB, and community organisations that are working together to improve the working conditions of cleaners.Together we will campaign to improve working conditions for migra...
Ayudar, no deportar

Ayudar, no deportar

La Coalición de Ayudar, No Deportar (‘Support Not Deport Coalition’) está compuesto de miembrxs del IWGB que trabajan en los servicios para lxs sin techo, trabajdorxs municipales del sindicato Unison, el sindicato IWW (Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo) y la rama de trabajdorxs de vivienda del ...
Acabar con la subcontratación

Acabar con la subcontratación

¡Lxs limpiadorxs y el personal de seguridad subcontratadxs de varias universidades por todo Londres están luchando por conseguir los mismos derechos que sus compañerxs que están empleadxs directamente!Comparado con sus colegas no-subcontratadxs, lxs trabajadorxs subcontratadxs padecen de términos...
Kill The Bill - May Day Mobilisation

Kill The Bill - May Day Mobilisation

Organising against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill #KillTheBillThe IWGB calls for the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which will make nonviolent protest a criminal offence, to be scrapped in its entirety. The IWGB is a signatory to a joint statement to organise against th...
El IWGB lanza la campaña #FairFurloughNow para proteger la salud pública y a los trabajadores precarios mientras los despidos vuelven a aumentar

El IWGB lanza la campaña #FairFurloughNow para proteger la salud pública y a los trabajadores precarios mientras los despidos vuelven a aumentar

La rama de Limpieza e Instalaciones del IWGB lidera el llamamiento al Gobierno para que prorrogue indefinidamente el Plan de Retención de Empleo y haga obligatorio su cumplimiento para los empleadores La campaña #FairFurloughNow, respaldada por 30 parlamentarios, pone de relieve cómo los trabajad...
IWGB launches #FairFurloughNow campaign to protect public health and precarious workers as redundancies rise again

IWGB launches #FairFurloughNow campaign to protect public health and precarious workers as redundancies rise again

IWGB Cleaners & Facilities Branch leads call on Government to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme indefinitely and make compliance compulsory for employers The #FairFurloughNow campaign, backed by 30 MPs, highlights how precarious migrant workers are being hit hardest by redundancy an...
Legal claim for compensation from Uber

Legal claim for compensation from Uber

Note: This case has concluded - 5/10/2022The Supreme Court ruled on 19 February 2021 that Uber drivers are workers, rather than self-employed contractors. As a worker you have certain legal protections and benefits, such as the right to paid holiday and the right to receive the National Minimum W...
#AplaudidxsYDescartadxs (#ClappedAndScrapped)

#AplaudidxsYDescartadxs (#ClappedAndScrapped)

En todo el sector, mensajerxs-repartidorxs de Deliveroo, UberEats, JustEat y Stuart están siendo despedidxs o ‘terminadxs’ sin advertencia alguna o sin acceso a las pruebas que explican porqué están despedidxs.Repartidora de Deliveroo— “Deliveroo me despidió en Abril con sólo una semana de preavi...
Lucha para el Esquema de Ayuda del Gobierno: todxs somos esenciales

Lucha para el Esquema de Ayuda del Gobierno: todxs somos esenciales

Somos cabezas de familia. Somos hijos e hijas que ya no pueden mantener a sus familias, que están dependiendo del Crédito Universal y otros beneficios, porque se está terminando el esquema de ayuda del gobierno, el pago del 80% del salario también conocido como ‘furlough’. Tenemos que soportar el...
¡Exigimos el fin de la tasa por congestión!

¡Exigimos el fin de la tasa por congestión!

Buscamos poner fin al trato injusto de lxs conductorxs privadxs en Londres que hace daño a nuestros medios de vida y da lugar a la pobreza.En abril de 2019, Transport For London puso fin a la exención de la tasa para lxs conductorxs privadxs. En julio de 2020 la tasa incrementó a 15£ por día, una...
Workers' rights for foster carers

Workers' rights for foster carers

“The question of employment rights for foster care workers goes to the heart of why our foster care system is in crisis. Carers are leaving the system in droves as they are pushed around, victimised and neglected by their employers.” – Pauline Graham, Secretary of the IWGB Foster Care Workers Br...
Scrap the congestion charge

Scrap the congestion charge

We are looking for justice against the unfair treatment of private hire drivers in London that is damaging our livelihoods and driving us into poverty.In April 2019, Transport for London removed private hire vehicles' exemption from paying the congestion charge and in July 2020 it was increased ...
End outsourcing

End outsourcing

Cleaners and security staff at universities across London are organising for equality with directly-employed staff!Outsourced workers suffer from far worse terms and conditions than directly-employed colleagues, facing no sick pay, bare minimum holiday entitlement and meagre pensions. Bullying, ...
#ClappedAndScrapped

#ClappedAndScrapped

Across the industry, couriers for Deliveroo, UberEats, Just Eat and Stuart are being dismissed or ‘terminated’ with little warning or access to the evidence of what they are accused.DELIVEROO DRIVER - "I was dismissed back in April by Deliveroo with just a week’s notice. They told me some of my ...

Proyecto de mujeres

El Proyecto de Mujeres de la IWGB tiene por objeto alentar la participación activa y el empoderamiento de las mujeres y lxs miembrxs no binarios del sindicato y abordar las cuestiones de género en el lugar de trabajo.Todo el mundo debería poder ir a trabajar con seguridad, dignidad y respeto, por...
Women's Project

Women's Project

The IWGB Women's Project aims to encourage the active participation and empowerment of women and non-binary union members and to address gendered issues in the workplace.Everyone should be able to go work with safety and dignity and respect, so we are creating spaces where we can focus on these...
Watch our online rallies

Watch our online rallies

During the pandemic we've moved a lot of our organising and activism online. You can find more videos over on our YouTube page. The Couriers and Logistics branch organised an online rally as part of their #ClappedAndScrapped campaign featuring MPs, terminated riders and a message of international...
Covid-19 demands

Covid-19 demands

Precarious workers have been on the frontlines of this crisis and the protection of their rights has been recognised as a major public health issue. They continue to play a vital role controlling the spread of the virus, whether by going out to work and providing for those most in need or making ...
El gig está hecho

El gig está hecho

La llamada "economía de los gigas", que consiste en conductores privados de alquiler, mensajeros y otros trabajadores mal pagados, es infame porque las empresas clasifican falsamente a estas personas como "contratistas independientes" con el fin de privarlas de los derechos laborales que les corr...
De vuelta en casa

De vuelta en casa

Los limpiadores, recepcionistas y oficiales de seguridad contratados externamente sufren peores salarios y condiciones que el personal empleado directamente. Estos trabajadores, que tienden a ser predominantemente migrantes, también tienen más probabilidades de sufrir discriminación e intimidació...