Lieferando (Just Eat) riders marched to the German Government’s Economy Ministry in Berlin on Wednesday [20 May], calling on the government to introduce a direct employment mandate in the platform economy. The protest came as Lieferando announced plans to cut 100 more staff in the company’s IT department in Berlin. Last year, Lieferando fired 2,000 […]

Lieferando (Just Eat Takeaway) cut 2,000 jobs in Germany, as part of a major re-structuring of the country’s largest food delivery platform.  The job cull, announced in July 2025, amounts to about 20% of the workforce. The company is also hiring riders via sub-contractors for the first time, having first trialled the move in Berlin.  […]

Ver.di offers self-employed individuals special information, support and an opportunity to become actively involved. Concerning platform workers, the measure develops on the idea to elaborate some recommendations for action for unionists about what to do for crowd work.On the basis of a survey with unions’ officials and works councils in 2016, it came out IT […]

The code of conduct at hand is a self-imposed guideline for prominent crowdsourcing companies that has been initiated by the crowdtesting provider Testbirds and will be continuously developed and improved. Its aim is to create general guidelines about how to act in regards to crowdwork and thereby create a basis for a trusting and fair […]

FairCrowdWork is a joint initiative of IG Metall, the Austrian Chamber of Labour, the Austrian Trade Union Confederation, and the Swedish White-Collar Workers’ Union, in collaboration with R&D partners Encountering Tech and M&L Communication Marketing. FairCrowdWork collects and disseminates information on micro-work, app-based work, and other forms of platform work from the perspectives of both […]

YouTubers Union led by a Berlin-based YouTuber   has joined forces with IG Metall to ask YouTube to improve transparency and communication around monetization and views of videos. YouTubers Union and IG Metall launched the formal campaign  FairTube. They are collectively protesting YouTube’s 2017 changes in its advertising rules, elaborating proposals for improved communication, fairness, […]

In January 2018, Deliveroo riders in Cologne announced that they would hold works council elections in February. Despite Deliveroo’s resistance to this initiative, including the dismissal of permanent staff and erasing the internal chat allowing workers to organise shifts, elections led to the setting up of the first Deliveroo works council in Germany. Riders had […]

Foodora riders in Cologne elected their first works council in Summer 2017. This was also the first works council to be elected by riders of the platform economy in Germany. Foodora’s riders in Cologne started organising through a Whatsapp group chat, but soon went to NGG, a German trade union active in the food, beverages […]