Initiatives

Les Coursiers Bordelais

Les Coursiers Bordelais is a bike delivery cooperative. It was created in November 2017 by three couriers who wanted to create an ethical alternative to the delivery platforms they worked for. The couriers were able to be employees of the cooperative after one year. Five couriers work for the cooperative. Coursiers Bordelais is part of […]

Les Coursiers Nantais

La coopérative Les Coursiers Nantais fait partie de la fédération CoopCycle. Elle propose une alternative crédible d’une part aux services de livraison polluants et encombrants qui doivent être autant que possibles bannis des centres villes et d’autre part aux modèles de livraison via plates-formes numériques et autoentrepreneurs « uberisés » qui précarisent le métier de […]

Mladi Plus

Mladi Plus was founded in Slovenia in 2011 and it represents students, pupils, unemployed youth and young precarious workers (under 35 years of age). It also deals with issues related to short-term contracts and student work. Slovenia has a strong legislation defending workers’ rights, safeguarding the status of employed workers and preventing employers from abusing […]

Neighborhood development committee Stains

The Stains neighbourhood commitee is part of the Coopcycle cooperative federation. It is an integration structure in the north of Seine-Saint-Denis, near to Paris, intervening in several areas (cleaning, roads-green spaces, buildings, cycling). In parallel with these commercial activities, the neighbourhood authority strengthens social link, the participation of residents and the associative dynamic via social […]

NIdiL CGIL

CGIL launched its NIdiL (Nuove Identità di Lavoro – New work identities) section in 1998 to ensure representation and protection for atypical workers. It now represents several categories of atypical workers, such as temporary workers, collaborators, the self-employed and the unemployed. NIdiL is engaged to prevent the abuse of self-employed work relations. When the classification […]

Olvo

Olvo is a cycling cooperative of the Coopcycle federation. Olvo was created in Paris in 2016 by Leeroyd Levi and Lucile Mercier, convinced that teamwork is necessary for quality deliveries and that it is possible to replace vans with cargo bikes in the city. The team offers cyclo-logistics services in Paris and its suburbs: delivery […]

Plateformes en Communs

« Plateformes en Communs » is a learning community of platforms coops, who share the following principles in their models : Inclusive governance of their stakeholders Fair sharing of the value generated by the interactions Data ethics Fair working conditions for the involved workers Inter-cooperation among platform coops These principles are shared in the charter of the […]

ReAct

Created in 2010, ReAct is an international network of organisers aiming to faciliate the collective organisation of workers and communities in their dealings with multinational companies. ReAct supports people and communities organising on a local basis and these organisations collaborating in a global alliance. ReAct runs the Global Labour Institute (GLI) Paris, the French-speaking branch […]

Riders Union Bologna

Riders Union Bologna is a group of riders and social activists working in Bologna to tackle precariousness and the lack of protections in the gig economy. Riders Union Bologna organises meetings and strikes. Some of the most successful actions, both in terms of participation and press coverage, took place on days with extreme weather conditions, […]

Riders x Derechos

Riders x Derechos was created by Deliveroo riders joining forces to denounce their irregular status as bogus self-employed and their working conditions. Since 2017, 14 workers have died in accidents while delivering food, which has led to several punch actions : burning backpacks in front of the platform’s headquarters, informing the public and rallying the riders […]
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Digital Platform Observatory

The digital platform observatory is a joint initiative of ETUC, IRES and ASTREES, funded by the European Commission. It brings together trade unionists, experts, activists, specialists of workers representation and collective action in the  platform economy.