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COURIERS staked their claim to the “legal and moral right to collective bargaining” today as their case against Deliveroo reached the Court of Appeal.
The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is appealing against the Central Arbitration Committee decision, upheld by the High Court in 2018, that Deliveroo riders cannot bargain collectively because they are classed as self-employed “independent suppliers.”
The High Court ruled that Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which protects the right to form and join trade unions, does not apply to riders for the online food delivery firm.
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR