Food delivery couriers in Budapest organised a mass protest in November 2025 against worsening working conditions. Gergely “Greg” Tóth from the ‘Hungarian Middle League – League of Couriers’ said that their purchasing power had fallen by 40-50 per cent over the past four years. Tóth added that out of every 9 Forints the riders made, […]

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 […]

When the platform first arrived in Austria in the autumn of 2015, most couriers were directly employed under traditional contracts of service. As a result, the platform’s workforce felt closely involved in the operations of the company, and enjoyed perks such as access to a local garage which served as a place to look after […]