IWGB

In October 2025, 31 employees at Rockstar North in Edinburgh (as well as three in Canada) were fired for gross misconduct for allegedly leaking information in a public forum.

Uber and other drivers from ride-hailing app drivers struck on 1 May in cities across the UK as part of a global strike against Uber and other apps.

On 14 and 15 November couriers working for Royal Mail subsidiary eCourier, members of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), struck for the first time. They are demanding “limb (b)” worker status and a range of associated rights, higher pay and an end to bullying and harassment by management. I joined their protest on 15 November and one of them, Ane Lima, spoke to me. “In the beginning everyone was scared, and sometimes it seemed this wouldn’t happen, but now everyone is out here I’m so proud. “This is the first time I’ve ever been on strike. I feel proud of myself and my...

Cleaners, their fellow IWGB union members, and other supporters gathered outside Peckham Library on 9 November to protest cuts to jobs and hours, and to demand insourcing

On 14 and 15 November, workers at eCourier will be striking over employment classification and pay, and to oppose bullying and harassment. In 2017 the courts found that eCourier, owned by Royal Mail, was breaking the law by classifying its couriers as independent contractors rather than workers. The company promised to investigate and rectify the issue. However, eCourier has so far sat on its hands. When workers and union activists have raised the issue, they have been met with intimidation and harassment. As with other sections of the so-called gig economy, the majority of the workforce are...

Download the billingual Englush and Portuguese bulletin to hand out at the 14th February 2024 strikes here. The first day of action was in this wave of non-unionised courier strikes was the 2nd of Feb, another has been called for 14th of Feb 2024, 5-10pm. It was called initially for London but has spread. The bulletin is deliberately not specific to time or place, so if you want to use it in other cities, and if the strike continues and you want to use it at a later date, it should work fine. Delivery drivers across the UK are going on strike over low pay. This strike is important, and we want...

On 24 November members of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and supporters occupied the foyers of two buildings at City University in London to demand justice for members who work as night cleaners there. Three workers have been victimised after a wider group registered a collective grievance about issues of mistreatment and overwork with the university’s subcontractor, Julius Rutherfoord Ltd. One worker (Bianca) has been sacked, one (Maria) disciplined and one (Ana Maria) physically attacked, by the son of the manager the grievance was against. Updates and links on twitter...

Outsourced security guards at University College London, organised in the IWGB, are organising a series of strikes and protests

Cleaners in GMB at University of Arts London (UAL) High Holborn campus struck 26-30 September, as part of a wider campaign against outsourcing across the university. At the High Holborn branch, the specific demand of the cleaning team was for an additional five members of staff, to make up for those who had been cut as the cleaning contract has been passed around different agencies in the last few years. The contractor offered an “independent investigator” to provide a staff number. But cleaners there know the reality, after one worker had to take a month off sick, whilst another had to have...

Food couriers working for Deliveroo, UberEats and JustEat staged a protest in Luton on the night of 27 September, speaking out against low pay. Over 100 drivers participated in a protest outside McDonald’s which ran from 10am to midnight. Speaking to Luton Today, one driver said: “Before, we used to make around 15 to 20 deliveries a day, but now that they are employing more drivers it’s gone down to around five or six a day. Some people are working from 7am to around 2.30am the next day just to make a living.” The Luton couriers are in contact with the IWGB union. From December 2021 to summer...