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DUTCH Deliveroo riders have warned of more action after their New Year’s Day strike against new the company’s new “freelance” status for its delivery workers, unions said today.
The Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV) said about 80 delivery staff in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Haarlem walked out yesterday and joined a protest at Haarlem’s central Grote Markt square.
They demanded that the British-based transnational reverse its decision not to renew employment contracts after February 1 and instead move riders onto bogus self-employed or “gig economy” status.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart