Hermes’ self-employed couriers now have the option to take holiday pay and have guaranteed earnings following a groundbreaking deal between the leading consumer delivery company and GMB Union. In early 2019, GMB (a union affiliated to the TUC) and the delivery company Hermes signed the first-ever collective bargaining agreement in the UK for self-employed couriers […]

The General Workers’ Union (GWU) and the Malta Delivery Fleet Operators Association (MDFOA) have signed a series of collective agreements covering Malta’s food delivery sector. In Malta, Wolt and Bolt are the two main platforms and riders are hired by sub-contractor companies known as ‘fleet operators’. The collective agreements will cover the majority of riders […]

E-Food riders took strike action across a number of cities in Greece on 12 February 2026. The strikes in Athens, Thessaloniki, Volos and Kalamata followed stoppages on November 28-29. The Attica union was one of several organisations representing riders which were behind the action. They demanded: E-Food is a brand of Delivery Hero, the German […]

The General Workers’ Union (GWU) and the Malta Delivery Fleet Operators Association (MDFOA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in December 2025. The MoU paves the way for a full collective agreement covering almost all food delivery couriers in the country, most of whom work for Wolt or Bolt. All food delivery couriers in the […]

Uber re-entered the Danish ride hail market in May 2025, claiming to be operating fully under Danish taxi regulations this time. Uber had first launched in Denmark in 2014 but following the introduction of a new taxi law in 2017, the company left the Danish market after drivers had been convicted of illegal driving and […]

In a historic move, a collective agreement for audiovisual translation agencies has been approved in Finland. Negotiated by the Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters (SKTL) and the Union of Journalists in Finland on the unions side, and Saga Vera Oy, Pre-Text Oy, Movision Ky and the Rosmer International cooperative on the employers side, the […]

In late 2021, the Spanish trade union confederations CCOO and UGT and the digital labour platform Just Eat signed the first collective agreement for such companies in Spain.The agreement has been assessed very positively by the Spanish trade union confederations and it provides for many advancements in rights, with basic monthly salary of 1.269,33 €, […]

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 […]

Unionen, which organises white-collar workers within the private sector in Sweden, sees Swedish platform firms’ intentions to be serious actors on the labour market. A few have already signed collective bargaining agreements, and Unionen is negotiating with others. Two of the CBA:s are in the Temporal Work sector. The rationale for platform firms to sign […]