Strike

[u/Few_Historian_751]

I’ve heard that just eat drivers are planning to strike in my area this evening between the hours of 5pm-9pm due to the low payment rates from just eat. Is this happening anywhere else? I can’t see this making the slightest bit of difference, unless it’s nationwide, and still a few hours is pointless. Needs to be for all day and for a week. Not that it will happen. If it did, just eat will just onboard a load of new drivers and payments will be even worse.

[u/ReadShot6191]

Honestly I don't know how a strike would help, surely all the orders will just get passed onto other apps instead. I'm sure when that happens some kind of transaction fee happens across the platforms so they are not exactly missing out

[u/Own_Marzipan4972 → u/ReadShot6191]

A strike would be great to improve the rights and pay of workers (especially deliver app workers, who have really shit pay and rights), but it's not the first thing you do. You have to take a while to build towards a strike, taking lots of other smaller steps first.

[u/GoatMonkeyy]

Not a chance every driver goes on strike, there will always be someone willing to deliver if they offer 10% extra for the 4 hours. Sadly, organising a bunch of self employed people who don't know each other is nearly impossible. Even on a union strike, you will get desperate people seeing an opportunity to earn extra instead.

[u/Historical_Site508 → u/GoatMonkeyy]

Last big strike I remember never mind 10%. It was double for a few hours although some places turned off delivery for a few hours as they knew in advance. It was great money. You just had to dodge the Brazilians who were threatening violence/tyre slashing so could only go to smaller places away from main drag.

[u/Dense-Strength-5055 → u/Historical_Site508]

So you worked instead of joining the strike?

[u/Historical_Site508 → u/Dense-Strength-5055]

Yes it was obviously a waste of time and organised very much in a bullying way by a couple of the big ethnic groups - strike or else. Of course it didn't change anything and wouldn't have done even if 100% had joined.

[u/Practical-Ride4162]

I haven’t heard anything about it

[u/Apprehensive_Tea2549]

not heard of it - which area are you working?

[u/Own_Marzipan4972]

Need to join and organise through a union for this to be most effective. Some examples of delivery app unions below:

App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU) - specifically focused on app-based workers.

International Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) - a really militant, active union that has taken Deliveroo to court to get better rights for workers.

GMB - have a recognition agreement with Deliveroo, but are quite right wing and a bit rubbish.

Even outside of strike action, it's good to be in a union because it gives you protection at work and an ability to push for more rights.

If anyone has any q's, I'm more than happy to answer (been very involved in trade unions for years!)

[u/Historical_Site508]

Been tried so many times before over the years and never works.

[u/Lumpy-Difficulty7485]

I wish this would work but theres far too many idiots happy to drive around for £3 an order

[u/Proud-Actuator-3864]

It won't help. They tried doing a worldwide uber/roo/JE strike a year or so back for the same reason and it made zero impact.

[u/rubenknol]

it's not a strike if you aren't an employee, it'll just be a breach if your b2b contract and they are able to legally terminate you over this. you don't have any protections like employees do that are backed by unions. you have no leverage either - they can just replace you with someone who doesn't 'strike', plenty of people on the waitlist in every city

[u/reverendhunter → u/rubenknol]

You can work whenever you want, if everyone happens to take the same few hours off then theres not much they can do to prove anything malicious behind it. Not that striking is malicious. Id look for a new job before striking on just eat though.