📣Migrant Justice Edinburgh has been mentioned in the latest issue of Scottish Left Review. The editorial highlights our work to build migrant solidarity and challenge racism in Edinburgh. scottishleftreview.scot/recapture-th... @regenfuturesfund.bsky.social

A phenomenal team, a prescient and urgent project, and it's a privilege to be working with them through the @workersobservatory.org #InternationalMigrantsDay

Today, as we mark #InternationalMigrantsDay, we want to introduce Migrant Justice Edinburgh, a new project proving that migrants are not passive or invisible, but that through our stories, ideas, actions and decisions we can change our city for the better. @regenfuturesfund.bsky.social

We're excited to be heading into 2026 working with two other organisations to build Migrants Justice Edinburgh ✊🏾 #InternationalMigrantsDay

The @workersobservatory.org is going into a new collaboration in 2026 and I'm really looking forward to seeing what develops here. Amazing work to date via @regenfuturesfund.bsky.social-- thank you!

The @workersobservatory.org website has been updated. Many thanks @bkarb.bsky.social for all your work on this: workersobservatory.org

Yes, we have been a bit missing over here for the last two months! We´ve been busy connecting with workers and migrant communities in Craigmillar and Niddrie, and we want to share with you more about this journey. ✒️Full article here: workersobservatory.org/building-the... #Craigmillar #gigwork

Building the Craigmillar & Niddrie of the Future: Migrant-Led Change in Action workersobservatory.org/building-the... @workersobservatory.org

Yes, we have been a bit missing over here for the last two months! We´ve been busy connecting with workers and migrant communities in Craigmillar and Niddrie, and we want to share with you more about this journey. ✒️Full article here: workersobservatory.org/building-the... #Craigmillar #gigwork

To read: Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers’ Epistemic Authority in AI Research ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement. Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U

NZ: Uber loses Supreme Court appeal over drivers' employment status "We're going back and calculating exactly what Uber would owe drivers if they had paid them at least the minimum wage, whatever it was at the time, and given them annual leave and so on," www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

The state's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act took effect on Monday. Under the law, businesses have to tell customers when they are using their personal data, such as where they are and what they've purchased in the past, to determine price: www.businessinsider.com/uber-doordas...

"This is a system where migrant workers are tolerated only as long as they remain silent, flexible and invisible." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Xabier Villares on the Workers Observatory project which is organising with workers from the gig economy, mostly delivery drivers in Edinburgh ... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/12/08/s...

Fed up of "reckless" Deliveroo cyclists on the roads? It's not as simple as you'd think- through the Workers Observatory, cycle delivery courriers are shedding light on their gruelling and unsafe working conditions. Believe me, they're fed up too. www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/you-can-ma...

Great to see @workersobservatory.org here: Bike-Powered Bicycle Stories (Havana/Glasgow Film Festival) hgfilmfest.com/2025/10/11/b...

Great to see @caileangallagher.bsky.social and @workersobservatory.org here:

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)