New blog: Surveillance on Wheels: Why the Government's Fast-Track to Autonomous Vehicles Threatens Our Privacy, Democracy and Workers’ Rights: www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/surveil...

Clear admission from Uber in today's earning call of what was long suspected but never admitted: Uber is harvesting data from their driver workforce to train autonomous vehicle AI models to replace them.

Uber's $20bn share buy back is a MASSIVE transfer of their wage theft from exploited workers to greedy investors. It equates to $2,400 for every rider & driver on the platform or just under the total value of fares collected from passengers in Q2 '25. www.ft.com/content/6643...

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

Support Migrant Gig Workers Under Attack in Northern Ireland www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-su...

Instead of consulting their workforce about changes in work practices and product, Uber senior managers are consulting ChatGPT instead! 🤦‍♂️ "Kansal gave a recent example.... He asked ChatGPT's deep research mode about what drivers may think of the add-on." www.businessinsider.com/how-uber-pro...

Solidarity with Grab and Gojek workers taking action in Indonesia today. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Door Dash are bidding to take over Deliveroo. But back in California, Uber is suing them for unfair competition. If even Uber finds Door Dash to be unethical and engaging in unfair competition, what will they do to Europe's many fine independent restaurants? about.doordash.com/en-us/news/u...

Door Dash offers £2.7bn for Deliveroo. Compare that to the £7.6bn IPO valuation in 2021. Just Eat, FreeNow and Gett all sold recently at huge losses in value. Bolt next? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The 'innovators' at Wayve, Uber's autonomous vehicle investment, are not just content with automating the actual driving, they also want to replicate and automate the emotional labour of drivers as well!

According to Pershing Square, a major investor in Uber, in the near future human drivers will only fill in gaps at periods of peak demand, most of the work will be done by autonomous vehicle fleets. Having destroyed decent work, Uber now wants to kill off employment altogether.

The FTC has launched a legal complaint against Uber alleging misrepresentation and unfairly charging consumers without consent. This relates to the Uber One subscription service where consumers were bamboozled with 23 screens & 32 actions when trying to cancel. www.ftc.gov/legal-librar...

“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” - Gandhi. Trans rights are human rights.

Great to see this recognition of WIE in European Commission report out today: “Both the Uber & Ola cases are prime examples of successful strategic litigation that has led to the mobilisation of GDPR data subject rights vis-à-vis digital labour platforms.” op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Home Office praise for Deliveroo, Just Eat, Uber Eats on illegal working ‘beyond absurd’ @workerinfox.bsky.social claims. “The elephant in the room is why platforms would even want to allow substitutes when people with the right to work could just sign up directly," says @jamesfarrar.bsky.social

WIE response to UK government's so-called 'crackdown on illegal working in gig economy' www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/wie-res...

Government must act on new demand from @mayoroflondon.bsky.social for powers to compel Uber to provide London journey data for public use www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/governm...

Uber Eats' St Patrick's Day promotion shows both the limitations of generative AI as well as its prejudicial stereotyping. Suggestions for 'ingredients for an Irish supper' is restricted to 9 types of potatoes, 2 types of mince meat, corned beef, cabbage, 4 types of butter, kale and er, that's it.

Recent mass firings by Deliveroo and Uber Eats are nothing more than theatre to launder their image while they treat workers as disposable and collude with government in racist assumptions. www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/ceos-an...

Uber's strategy for autonomous vehicle proliferation risks leaving our city streets looking like an Amazon warehouse. www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/uber-s-...

We wish we had better news on #DataProtectionDay Here's just a few of the worst gig economy data fails we've come across in the last year🧵

Together, we and 11 other organisations are asking @Deliveroo, @Uber, and @JustEatTakeaway to take steps to significantly improve their transparency around the algorithms they use to manage their workforce. #TimeToDeliverAnswers privacyinternational.org/advocacy/550...

Poor platform security and dire worker safety practices exposes Bolt drivers to unimaginable horrors in Nigeria. saharareporters.com/2025/01/12/b...

Japanese Uber Eats riders turned their back against the platform en masse last week as they saw their income plummet after the firm introduced new algorithm setting. New year's incentive was gone and the pay rate was further cut down over the first January weekend. 1/4

Can @plymouthcc.bsky.social really regulate Uber? www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/can-ply...

Excluded Deliveroo drivers trained to be more inclusive.......say, what? www.iloveqatar.net/news/general...

Gig economy maths: 🤡Just Eat buys Grubhub for $7.3 billion in 2020 🤡 Just Eat sells Grubhub for $0.65 billion in 2024 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Tonight we have written to @mayorofldn.bsky.social & Transport Commissioner Andy Lord to demand accountability at TfL for signing off on Bolt's plan to cheat workers out of pension contributions. This from last Friday's Employment Tribunal ruling:

Pension auto enrolment is a legal requirement as TfL knows. Yet here we have Robert Maxwell level pension fiddling reported to TfL in March 2024 & yet in May 2024 TfL & Sadiq Khan granted Bolt a new public license. Heads must roll! @ellybakeram.bsky.social @carolinerussell.bsky.social

Read our comment on today's Bolt ruling www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/wie-com...

The rational choice now for drivers is to single app on Uber & claim for ALL their working time. Better to get paid to sit than be unpaid to scratch around multi-apping. Uber will have a big employment bill & huge competition claims but hey, the laws an ass www.cloisters.com/insights/lan...

Tony West leaning into a union endorsement for Kamala promising she would pass the Pro Act. Yet, as General Counsel at Uber, West busted unions and funded a massive effort to successfully defeat the Pro Act! Is it any wonder people are cynical? theintercept.com/2021/05/06/p...

While the UK government says that the worker status issue is soooo complex they need 2 more years to consider worker rights for gig workers, that hasn't stopped them from introducing new rules from Jan 2025 to require platforms to quietly grass up their workers to HMRC. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Listen as a McDonalds manager in Northern Ireland inappropriately pressures Uber Eats drivers to prioritise the deliveries of McDonalds food over Starbucks or KFC - something not at the discretion of drivers. More in our McMisery report: www.workerinfoexchange.org/mcexploitati...

EXPOSED: How the gig economy public data deficit conceals nearly £2 billion in yearly wage theft, blatant disregard for worker and public safety, and rampant growth in emissions. Read our full report, Dying for Data www.workerinfoexchange.org/public-data-...