Do You Know How to Insure That Workers Have the Rights That They Deserve?

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A a d c u has been filing and involved in a number of legal cases, but also is involved in organizing workers for their rights. So i wonder what you see as the importance of having both strategies on the go at once. I just want to give you a brief background. My father come from packiston, back here in the uk. In the 19 sixties, he was a migrant worker who could hardly speak english. He was a factory worker. A lot of people working in the factory were all from similar background to him, pacastany migrants that hardly spoke english. And the unions at the time did a great job in er making sure that they weren't being discriminated

Paris Marx is joined by Yaseen Aslam to discuss the UK Supreme Court ruling that Uber drivers are not self-employed, the long fight to reach that point, and the next steps in the push for gig workers’ rights in the UK.

Yaseen Aslam is the president of the App Drivers and Couriers Union and a lead claimant in the Aslam v Uber case. Follow Yaseen on Twitter at @Yaseenaslam381 and the ADCU at @ADCUnion.

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In February, the UK Supreme Court upheld a previous ruling the Uber drivers were not self-employed, but were covered by a “worker” status. The following month, Uber reclassified workers, but didn’t observe the Court’s definition of what it meant to be a worker.
On September 28, Uber drivers in 8 UK cities went on strike, demanding better hourly rates and the full implementation of the Supreme Court ruling/
The ADCU sued Uber in the Netherlands over automated dismissal and not providing drivers their data under the GDPR. In April, the court made Uber reinstate 5 drivers.
In October, the ADCU announced it was suing Uber over its racially biased facial recognition algorithms.
Find out more about the ADCU.

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