Monday will be a decisive day for the rights of the millions of platform workers in Europe. In order to make sure that the platform workers win against Uber's multimillion lobby machine, we need your help: https://act.greens-efa.eu/uber-exploits?source=nl_twitter_20221208
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That day the EMPL committee of the European Parliament will vote on an important piece of legislation, giving platform workers the same rights as other employees. With Uber heavily lobbying against it, it will be a very close vote.
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Uber's business model is based on the exploitation of workers. Claiming that their drivers and riders are self-employed – which they are clearly not – Uber circumvents minimum wage and social protection laws. As a result, workers are underpaid and have no social protection.
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And as if this is not bad enough already, they are constantly monitored and managed by black box algorithms. They don’t know why they get certain tasks or prices and are sometimes even fired without any explanation.
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The rules as proposed will allow platform workers, labour inspectors and trade unions to challenge fake self-employment. In that case, it will be up to the platforms to prove that they work with truly independent workers free from their control.
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Thus, for the sake of ending fake self-employment, as well as ensuring transparency and fairness in the use of algorithmic management in the workplace, this vote will be extremely important.
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Politicians have shown to be easily swayed by Uber's aggressive lobby tactics. This is why I need you to let them know that we are watching, that they cannot get away with continuing the exploitation of millions of platform workers.
Take action: https://act.greens-efa.eu/uber-exploits?source=nl_twitter_20221208.
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Workers will also no longer stand empty-handed against an algorithm with new rights to:
- Meaningful information about the systems and how they work;
- A say in how they’re used;
- Explanation of decisions;
- Human oversight, and in particular: never be fired by an algorithm.
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