You may have caught the news in December about Deliveroo’s trade union decision. If not here’s the update:
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain’s decision that the reference to the right of “everyone…to form and to join trade unions” is limited to those who have an “employment relationship” with their employer.
Therefore, Deliveroo’s riders were not covered by the right to form and join a trade union because there was no employment relationship between them.
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