The Workers' Observatory
@workersobservatory.org
We are a collective of platform workers and researchers challenging conditions in self-employed and gig work.
🗺️ Edinburgh, Scotland
🗺️ Edinburgh, Scotland
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Xabier Villares on the Workers Observatory project which is organising with workers from the gig economy, mostly delivery drivers in Edinburgh ...
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Self-Organising Workers in the Gig Economy
The Workers Observatory project is organising with workers from the gig economy, mostly delivery drivers in the cities. Xabier Villares reports. On the 12th of December, the Workers Observatory (WO…
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December 9, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Xabier Villares on the Workers Observatory project which is organising with workers from the gig economy, mostly delivery drivers in Edinburgh ...
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Fed up of "reckless" Deliveroo cyclists on the roads? It's not as simple as you'd think- through the Workers Observatory, cycle delivery courriers are shedding light on their gruelling and unsafe working conditions. Believe me, they're fed up too.
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‘You can make as little as £3 in an hour’: Inside Edinburgh's gig economy
The delivery riders facing dangerous conditions for low pay in the Capital
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Fed up of "reckless" Deliveroo cyclists on the roads? It's not as simple as you'd think- through the Workers Observatory, cycle delivery courriers are shedding light on their gruelling and unsafe working conditions. Believe me, they're fed up too.
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/you-can-ma...
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/you-can-ma...
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Great to see @workersobservatory.org here:
Bike-Powered Bicycle Stories (Havana/Glasgow Film Festival)
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Bike-Powered Bicycle Stories (Havana/Glasgow Film Festival)
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Bike-Powered Bicycle Stories - Havana Glasgow Film Festival
Tues 11 November 2025 19:30 – 21:45 | CCA Glasgow A programme of short documentaries - bicycle-powered - relating to bikes, exploring resilience, activism, ingenuity and the joy of two wheels, from Cu...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Great to see @workersobservatory.org here:
Bike-Powered Bicycle Stories (Havana/Glasgow Film Festival)
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Bike-Powered Bicycle Stories (Havana/Glasgow Film Festival)
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Great to see @caileangallagher.bsky.social and @workersobservatory.org here:
New book alert!📘
Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective
Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective
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November 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great to see @caileangallagher.bsky.social and @workersobservatory.org here:
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Genuinely detest this framing: "Illegal working creates an incentive for people attempting to arrive in this country illegally."
news.sky.com/story/bosses...
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Huge rise in raids on salons and takeaways revealed in illegal working crackdown
Ministers are considering plans to penalise employers who fail to carry out full right-to-work checks on staff
news.sky.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Genuinely detest this framing: "Illegal working creates an incentive for people attempting to arrive in this country illegally."
news.sky.com/story/bosses...
news.sky.com/story/bosses...
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Uber is giving drivers and couriers an option to do on-screen gig work when they're not ferrying people or food around -- it's mostly data collection and data labeling for AI companies. (How long until they are helping train their own replacements, robotaxis & robots?) www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/u...
Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road
Uber says it's offering drivers ways to make money when not ferrying around passengers.
www.cnbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Uber is giving drivers and couriers an option to do on-screen gig work when they're not ferrying people or food around -- it's mostly data collection and data labeling for AI companies. (How long until they are helping train their own replacements, robotaxis & robots?) www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/u...
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This project is an example of @alexhanna.bsky.social's vision for DAIR, she said she wanted to make researchers organizers and organizers researchers (something to that effect and I believe there's a related quote from someone else).🧵
🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This project is an example of @alexhanna.bsky.social's vision for DAIR, she said she wanted to make researchers organizers and organizers researchers (something to that effect and I believe there's a related quote from someone else).🧵
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If any US tech journalists want to chat with @workersobservatory.org let us know. Could be funding here:
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Tech Journalism Fund - Omidyar Network
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October 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If any US tech journalists want to chat with @workersobservatory.org let us know. Could be funding here:
omidyar.com/where-we-foc...
omidyar.com/where-we-foc...
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On Thursday, @workersobservatory.org will run a workshop for on-demand couriers in Edinburgh. The workshop will explore how these workers can shape demands for inclusion in the city's Fair Work Charter and FW consultation.
Thanks to @edi.bike and @edinburghminute.bsky.social for picking up news of the @workersobservatory.org workshop this week:
We Deserve Fair Work - Workshop for Delivery Riders in Edinburgh
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We Deserve Fair Work - Workshop for Delivery Riders in Edinburgh
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We Deserve Fair Work - Workshop for Delivery Riders in Edinburgh · Luma
Food delivery workers in Edinburgh, join the Workers' Observatory and ROOM for our workshop titled "We Deserve Fair Work!"
For too long, delivery workers have…
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September 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
On Thursday, @workersobservatory.org will run a workshop for on-demand couriers in Edinburgh. The workshop will explore how these workers can shape demands for inclusion in the city's Fair Work Charter and FW consultation.
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Protests erupted in multiple cities and tensions soared across Indonesia on Friday, a day after a delivery rider was allegedly run over by a police armored vehicle during clashes between riot police and students protesting against lawmakers’ allowances.
Tensions soar across Indonesia as protests against police erupt in multiple cities | CNN
Protests erupted in multiple cities and tensions soared across Indonesia on Friday, a day after a delivery rider was allegedly run over by a police armored vehicle during clashes between riot police a...
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August 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Protests erupted in multiple cities and tensions soared across Indonesia on Friday, a day after a delivery rider was allegedly run over by a police armored vehicle during clashes between riot police and students protesting against lawmakers’ allowances.
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Thanks to @edi.bike and @edinburghminute.bsky.social for picking up news of the @workersobservatory.org workshop this week:
We Deserve Fair Work - Workshop for Delivery Riders in Edinburgh
luma.com/3r5hmptg
We Deserve Fair Work - Workshop for Delivery Riders in Edinburgh
luma.com/3r5hmptg
We Deserve Fair Work - Workshop for Delivery Riders in Edinburgh · Luma
Food delivery workers in Edinburgh, join the Workers' Observatory and ROOM for our workshop titled "We Deserve Fair Work!"
For too long, delivery workers have…
luma.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Thanks to @edi.bike and @edinburghminute.bsky.social for picking up news of the @workersobservatory.org workshop this week:
We Deserve Fair Work - Workshop for Delivery Riders in Edinburgh
luma.com/3r5hmptg
We Deserve Fair Work - Workshop for Delivery Riders in Edinburgh
luma.com/3r5hmptg
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"Much this conversation around e-bikes and e-vehicles focuses on individual actions and infractions," said @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
"And one of the things that I will do is focus on the systemic drivers of this chaotic streetscape, one of them being the app companies."
"And one of the things that I will do is focus on the systemic drivers of this chaotic streetscape, one of them being the app companies."
Zohran Mamdani On E-Bike Safety: Regulate App Algorithms, Not Workers - Streetsblog New York City
The presumptive mayor is joining the war against e-bikes ... on the side of the e-bikes.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A Fair Gig Work Agenda for the City and Nation:
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Workers Observatory — We See The City
The Workers’ Observatory is an Edinburgh-based project run by workers to monitor new forms of work in the city and develop tools and tactics to take advantage of them
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September 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A Fair Gig Work Agenda for the City and Nation:
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workersobservatory.org/a-fair-gig-w...
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This is the fund that awarded to @workersobservatory.org, in collaboration with Citizens Rights Network and Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA).
Together, the three organisations have formed the collective "Migrant Justice Edinburgh."
Together, the three organisations have formed the collective "Migrant Justice Edinburgh."
I am so proud of my city! Edinburgh is working with and providing long-term funding for communities on citizen-led initiatives, to tackle the big issues like historic racism, inequality, and the climate crisis.
September 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This is the fund that awarded to @workersobservatory.org, in collaboration with Citizens Rights Network and Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA).
Together, the three organisations have formed the collective "Migrant Justice Edinburgh."
Together, the three organisations have formed the collective "Migrant Justice Edinburgh."
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Our screening of Union on September 20th at the Filmhouse Edinburgh will include an introduction from Chris Smalls - founder of the Amazon Labor Union - especially recorded for Take One Action!
👇Here’s an early sneak peek of it...
👇Here’s an early sneak peek of it...
August 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our screening of Union on September 20th at the Filmhouse Edinburgh will include an introduction from Chris Smalls - founder of the Amazon Labor Union - especially recorded for Take One Action!
👇Here’s an early sneak peek of it...
👇Here’s an early sneak peek of it...
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"For Jakarta’s ride-hailing drivers, grief has turned into a rallying cry." www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
‘Justice for Affan’: Outrage in Jakarta after delivery rider killed by police vehicle in protest clash
The incident occurred during Jakarta’s second major protest rally this week. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"For Jakarta’s ride-hailing drivers, grief has turned into a rallying cry." www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
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On 10 July 2025, the event ‘Exploitation via app’ took place in Berlin. It was about the working conditions at food delivery services in Berlin and the resistance of workers.
de.labournet.tv/en/videos/si...
de.labournet.tv/en/videos/si...
The situation of food couriers in Berlin | Labournet TV
Samee Ullah is part of the Lieferando Workers' Collective. He describes the situation of migrant food couriers.
de.labournet.tv
September 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
On 10 July 2025, the event ‘Exploitation via app’ took place in Berlin. It was about the working conditions at food delivery services in Berlin and the resistance of workers.
de.labournet.tv/en/videos/si...
de.labournet.tv/en/videos/si...
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🚲 edi.bike | issue 108 | 1st Sep '25
in your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:
All Eyes on TRO Sub-Committee; Voi Hire Bike Perimeter and Pricing; Tramline Consultation Launches; events, community updates, route closures & more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-108-1st-sep-25/
in your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:
All Eyes on TRO Sub-Committee; Voi Hire Bike Perimeter and Pricing; Tramline Consultation Launches; events, community updates, route closures & more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-108-1st-sep-25/
September 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🚲 edi.bike | issue 108 | 1st Sep '25
in your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:
All Eyes on TRO Sub-Committee; Voi Hire Bike Perimeter and Pricing; Tramline Consultation Launches; events, community updates, route closures & more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-108-1st-sep-25/
in your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:
All Eyes on TRO Sub-Committee; Voi Hire Bike Perimeter and Pricing; Tramline Consultation Launches; events, community updates, route closures & more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-108-1st-sep-25/
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"Whether in the workplace or at the highest levels of regulation, workers’ voices, expertise and concerns should be a golden thread running through the UK’s approach to AI and innovation."
cc @workersobservatory.org
"Whether in the workplace or at the highest levels of regulation, workers’ voices, expertise and concerns should be a golden thread running through the UK’s approach to AI and innovation."
cc @workersobservatory.org
Building a pro-worker AI innovation strategy
A pro-worker AI innovation strategy for the UK should use every lever to shape technology towards good jobs, resilient public services and to drive socially useful innovation – for now and the future,...
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August 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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"Whether in the workplace or at the highest levels of regulation, workers’ voices, expertise and concerns should be a golden thread running through the UK’s approach to AI and innovation."
cc @workersobservatory.org
"Whether in the workplace or at the highest levels of regulation, workers’ voices, expertise and concerns should be a golden thread running through the UK’s approach to AI and innovation."
cc @workersobservatory.org
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A new piece from @caileangallagher.bsky.social at the @workersobservatory.org 🔔
"That’s why we’re calling for this type of work to placed at the centre of the Scottish Government’s Fair Work agenda."
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
"That’s why we’re calling for this type of work to placed at the centre of the Scottish Government’s Fair Work agenda."
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
Time to stop the rough ride for food delivery workers
Food delivery workers and other ‘platform’ workers are sitting in a dangerous blind spot of British employment law
www.scotsman.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A new piece from @caileangallagher.bsky.social at the @workersobservatory.org 🔔
"That’s why we’re calling for this type of work to placed at the centre of the Scottish Government’s Fair Work agenda."
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
"That’s why we’re calling for this type of work to placed at the centre of the Scottish Government’s Fair Work agenda."
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
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The @workersobservatory.org will bring two key principles to our roundtable with Edinburgh Council and the Scottish Government today:
1. everyone should get home safe.
2. platform work should be fair work.
I argue why these matter in today's @scotsman.com
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
1. everyone should get home safe.
2. platform work should be fair work.
I argue why these matter in today's @scotsman.com
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
Time to stop the rough ride for food delivery workers
Food delivery workers and other ‘platform’ workers are sitting in a dangerous blind spot of British employment law
www.scotsman.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The @workersobservatory.org will bring two key principles to our roundtable with Edinburgh Council and the Scottish Government today:
1. everyone should get home safe.
2. platform work should be fair work.
I argue why these matter in today's @scotsman.com
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
1. everyone should get home safe.
2. platform work should be fair work.
I argue why these matter in today's @scotsman.com
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
We'll be developing a workshop in September for local gig workers to respond to the @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social consultation on a Fair Work charter for the city.
In the meantime, you can see & respond to the consultation here:
consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/fair-wor...
In the meantime, you can see & respond to the consultation here:
consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/fair-wor...
A Fair Work Charter for Edinburgh
- City of Edinburgh Council
- Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by City of Edinburgh Council
consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk
August 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM
We'll be developing a workshop in September for local gig workers to respond to the @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social consultation on a Fair Work charter for the city.
In the meantime, you can see & respond to the consultation here:
consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/fair-wor...
In the meantime, you can see & respond to the consultation here:
consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/fair-wor...