Genuinely detest this framing: "Illegal working creates an incentive for people attempting to arrive in this country illegally." news.sky.com/story/bosses...

Uber is giving drivers and couriers an option to do on-screen gig work when they're not ferrying people or food around -- it's mostly data collection and data labeling for AI companies. (How long until they are helping train their own replacements, robotaxis & robots?) www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/u...

This project is an example of @alexhanna.bsky.social's vision for DAIR, she said she wanted to make researchers organizers and organizers researchers (something to that effect and I believe there's a related quote from someone else).🧵

If any US tech journalists want to chat with @workersobservatory.org let us know. Could be funding here: omidyar.com/where-we-foc...

On Thursday, @workersobservatory.org will run a workshop for on-demand couriers in Edinburgh. The workshop will explore how these workers can shape demands for inclusion in the city's Fair Work Charter and FW consultation.

Protests erupted in multiple cities and tensions soared across Indonesia on Friday, a day after a delivery rider was allegedly run over by a police armored vehicle during clashes between riot police and students protesting against lawmakers’ allowances.

Thanks to @edi.bike and @edinburghminute.bsky.social for picking up news of the @workersobservatory.org workshop this week: We Deserve Fair Work - Workshop for Delivery Riders in Edinburgh luma.com/3r5hmptg

OMG! cc @workersobservatory.org

A Fair Gig Work Agenda for the City and Nation: workersobservatory.org/a-fair-gig-w...

This is the fund that awarded to @workersobservatory.org, in collaboration with Citizens Rights Network and Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA). Together, the three organisations have formed the collective "Migrant Justice Edinburgh."

Our screening of Union on September 20th at the Filmhouse Edinburgh will include an introduction from Chris Smalls - founder of the Amazon Labor Union - especially recorded for Take One Action! 👇Here’s an early sneak peek of it...

"For Jakarta’s ride-hailing drivers, grief has turned into a rallying cry." www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...

Why Irish restaurants should build their own delivery platform: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

On 10 July 2025, the event ‘Exploitation via app’ took place in Berlin. It was about the working conditions at food delivery services in Berlin and the resistance of workers. de.labournet.tv/en/videos/si...

Ah, this looks good: www.eventbrite.ca/e/workers-go... via @grohmannrafael.bsky.social

🚲 edi.bike | issue 108 | 1st Sep '25 in your weekly edinburgh cycling digest: All Eyes on TRO Sub-Committee; Voi Hire Bike Perimeter and Pricing; Tramline Consultation Launches; events, community updates, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-108-1st-sep-25/

www.tuc.org.uk/research-ana... "Whether in the workplace or at the highest levels of regulation, workers’ voices, expertise and concerns should be a golden thread running through the UK’s approach to AI and innovation." cc @workersobservatory.org

A new piece from @caileangallagher.bsky.social at the @workersobservatory.org 🔔 "That’s why we’re calling for this type of work to placed at the centre of the Scottish Government’s Fair Work agenda." www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

The @workersobservatory.org will bring two key principles to our roundtable with Edinburgh Council and the Scottish Government today: 1. everyone should get home safe. 2. platform work should be fair work. I argue why these matter in today's @scotsman.com www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

We'll be developing a workshop in September for local gig workers to respond to the @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social consultation on a Fair Work charter for the city. In the meantime, you can see & respond to the consultation here: consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/fair-wor...

Yes, many thanks! More to come after a late Aug roundtable will meet here to discuss next steps.

Thanks to @edinburghminute.bsky.social and @edi.bike for the shout out to the work the @workersobservatory.org is doing in Edinburgh: "It’s great to see a holistic approach to this issue..." buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...

Survey to determine if Edinburgh has too many private hire drivers: news.stv.tv/east-central...

Some big news: @workersobservatory.org in alliance with/ Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA) & Citizens Rights Project (CRP) has been selected for the capacity-building phase of the Regenerative Future Funds in Edinburgh! workersobservatory.org/the-workers-...

Riders in Edinburgh create ROOM (Riders Observatory and Organising Movement) a collective based at @workersobservatory.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwX1...

What if you took dynamic prices - algorithms that change prices in real-time based on supply, demand, and other factors - but applied it to people's wages? This is not a hypothetical. It's the latest development in the gig economy. www.ft.com/content/c10d...

#Deliveryriders caught between algorithms and #immigration raids new piece drawing on @iclaimeu.bsky.social research with @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr... #KeirStarmer #Labour #YvetteCooper #immigrationenforcement #Deliveroo #UberEats #gigeconomy

Next was an amazing talk by Adam Badger on making the case for food delivery gig work as high skill at @oii.ox.ac.uk. Through deep ethnographic field work, Badger absolutely eviscerates the concept of one-dimensional labor "skill." Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTeV... (5/6)

With temperatures set to rocket this week, UK workers are still not protected by a legal maximum temperature❗ Our research found that two-thirds of the workforce could find themselves working in heat waves above 35C by the end of the decade 📈 buff.ly/guwmidU 👇

Network Development Manager (NCN Planning) @sustrans.bsky.social - work with councils & partners to identify & initiate a range of projects that will fix & grow the National Cycle Network in Scotland. 🕑Full time 💵£32,145 📍Edinburgh or Glasgow More info: tinyurl.com/3swetd68 #development #hybrid

Starmer’s xenophobic immigration enforcement is now no longer about “smash the gangs” it is about targeting the gig economy of delivery workers. A new precarious underclass being exploited by capitalism is being made even more precarious…

Call for Papers WES accepting full papers on the relationship between earning and learning, redressing the invisibility and marginalisation of student workers. Deadline for submission 27 February 2026. Full CFP below. www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26914/...

Change or the better happens when people stand together and demand it! Join thousands of others in October to say #ScotlandDemandsBetter www.scotland-demands-better.com

The @workersobservatory.org has made it to the Spurtle:

"Sudden suspension or expulsion of account-holders from platforms they depend on for their income is like the wild west hire-and-fire of old, with one difference: It is automated." www.thenational.scot/politics/25336972.keir-starmer-wont-win-deliveroo-riders/ from @caileangallagher.bsky.social

Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts

You can now follow The Workers Observatory on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/work... And see more here: workersobservatory.org

Come along on Sept 1st if you're in Edinburgh: cc @workersobservatory.org

New - Oxford University research in partnership with @Workerinfox exposes deepening exploitation of Uber drivers by algorithmic pay www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/new-res...

In a country that already has experienced a concerted summer of riots, this language and imagery is just deeply irresponsible. Many people ride for these companies every day and they deserve to get home safely and without harassment or fear. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

"Why Keir Starmer won't win his new war against food delivery cyclists" - a piece by Cailean Gallagher from @workersobservatory.org www.thenational.scot/politics/253...

Edinburgh On-Demand Riders Bring Campaign to Council Chambers: workersobservatory.org/riders-bring...

Join our upcoming webinar series with the Public Voices in AI project about how public voices can be put front and centre in artificial intelligence research, development and policy. Book a place: digitalgood.net/pvai-seminar... Learn more about the project: digitalgood.net/dg-research/...

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'Til the Home Office do us part: new piece by @nandosigona.bsky.social drawing on the @iclaimeu.bsky.social study on the working and living conditions of migrant workers in food delivery and domestic work in the UK theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...