Uber’s introduction of AI agents to manage workers is a disturbing and dangerous development www.ier.org.uk/news/ubers-i...

Important day tomorrow in Stichting @workerinfox.bsky.social legal action to stop Dynamic Pay. Uber are drinking in the last chance saloon tonight. We meet with their lawyers tomorrow in last ditch effortnto resolve I'm hoping they'll see sense & meet our demands & much unpleasantness can be avoided

BREAKING - WIE NL has begun legal action against Uber for collective redress over the unlawful use of algorithmic pay setting systems which badly damaged driver incomes. workerinfoexchange.nl/press-releas...

Press Release: Drivers in UK and Europe set to sue Uber for unfair pay set by algorithm - Stichting WIE International

Stichting WIE International has launched the Dynamic Pay Claim against Uber, challenging the company’s use of dynamic pay and algorithmic wage-setting. The action seeks to stop Uber’s current pay mode...

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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...

Uber launches $20bn share buyback

Ride-hailing app announces plans after posting upbeat outlook for gross bookings

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

New Research Exposes Deepening Exploitation of Uber Drivers by Algorithmic Pay

New Research Exposes Deepening Exploitation of Uber Drivers by Algorithmic Pay

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

Donate to Support Migrant Gig Workers Under Attack in Northern Ireland, organized by Worker Info Exchange

In recent days, shocking scenes of violence have erupted in B… Worker Info Exchange needs your support for Support Migrant Gig Workers Under Attack in Northern Ireland

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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...

How Uber's product chief uses AI at work

Sachin Kansal shared two ways he uses AI for his everyday tasks and how he plans to add NotebookLM to his AI tool suite.

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

Ride-hailing drivers in Indonesia hold protests to demand better pay

Hundreds of taxi and delivery drivers joined protests in several cities across Indonesia on Tuesday over low wages and to oppose a planned merger between the country's largest tech company GoTo and U.S.-listed ride-hailing rival Grab .

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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...

US food delivery app DoorDash offers to buy UK rival Deliveroo for $3.6bn

The London-based company, the second largest food deliver app in the UK, said no ‘firm offer’ had been made yet

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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...

Uber, FTC v.

The Federal Trade Commission sued Uber Technologies, Inc. and Uber USA LLC (collectively, “Uber”) for alleged violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence

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“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...

Study exploring the context, challenges, opportunities, and trends in algorithmic management in the workplace - Publications Office of the EU

The present study was carried out to provide the Commission with a comprehensive, evidence-based analysis of the context, challenges, opportunities, and trends in algorithmic management (AM) in the wo...

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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...

WIE response to UK government's so-called 'crackdown on illegal working in gig economy'

WIE response to UK government's so-called 'crackdown on illegal working in gig economy'

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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...

Government must act on new demand from Mayor for powers to compel Uber to provide London journey data for public use

UK government must act on Mayor of London demands for powers to compel Uber to share journey data.

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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-...

Uber's autonomous dream - 4 million self driving vehicles on London streets

Uber's autonomous dream - 4 million self driving vehicles on London streets

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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...

Time to deliver answers: An open letter to Just Eat Takeaway, Uber and Deliveroo

Algorithmic management of workers has become the norm for gig-economy platforms, with workers obligated to give up an immense amount of personal data just to go to work.

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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...

Can Plymouth City Council really regulate Uber?

The taxi licensing committee of Plymouth City Council must place tough conditions on Uber before making any decision to grant a license.

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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...

Just Eat Takeaway to sell US arm Grubhub at a loss of more than $6.5bn

Netherlands-based firm offloads unit to fast casual restaurant chain Wonder for $650m four years after buying it for $7.3bn

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