Aju John @islandexpress.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The Platform Directive is also capable of addressing longstanding challenges facing social security systems, according to Alberto Barrio. Join the call with him tomorrow: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 000
Reposted by Aju JohnBen Wray @benwray1989.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I’ve written a manual for @etuc-ces.bsky.social on platform work and health & safety. There’s nothing more important than life, and the way platform work is typically organised is systematically putting platform workers’ lives at risk. The story of Sebastian Galassi summed this up for me🧵 114
Aju John @islandexpress.bsky.social · 07/02/2026There has been a remarkable change in the ethnic and racial composition of Berlin's low wage workforce. In this piece with Sanam Roohi, I wrote about immigration procedures that claimed to recruit skilled workers, but became a pipeline to low wage work. www.thenewsminute.com/voices/why-g...thenewsminute.comWhy Germany’s Opportunity Card may be a migration trap for IndiansFollow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.Priya* a 36-year-old woman from Pune, had spent nine years steadily building a career i 031
Reposted by Aju JohnETUI @etui.bsky.social · 12/01/2026🚨 New #ETUIPodcast episode out now! ▶️ Counter-app: what is Uberisation? In this second episode, @benwray1989.bsky.social unpacks what "Uberisation" really means, why certain industries are more vulnerable to it, and how digital transformation is reshaping work. 🎙️Tune in: etui.org/4Z8 032
Reposted by Aju JohnBen Wray @benwray1989.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Souleymane's Story, available on some streaming platforms, is a great film revealing the reality of the food delivery industry in Europe, where black market exploitation of undocumented migrants is rampant. eomail5.com/web-version?...eomail5.comSouleymane's StoryGEP Newsletter 012
Reposted by Aju JohnSandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Excited about this discussion on my book tomorrow. Will be streamed on Youtube 8 PM IST/ 2.30 PM GMT/ 9.30 AM EST (link in replies) 153
Aju John @islandexpress.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Here's a news report from Thursday's historic migrant-led and union-endorsed strike against subcontracting at Lieferando in Berlin. www.instagram.com/reel/DQPkGZO...dw.report 010
Reposted by Aju JohnBen Wray @benwray1989.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Important strike on Thursday in Berlin by Lieferando (Just Eat) riders. Lieferando's shift to sub-contractors is part of a plan across Germany to slash costs by using small firms that have no problem with illegal labour practices, but there is resistance! eomail5.com/web-version?...eomail5.comInterview: 'Biggest Lieferando strike so far'GEP Newsletter 021
Reposted by Aju JohnBen Wray @benwray1989.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Report on the @etuc-ces.bsky.social 'Platforum' in Nicosia, where platform workers and organisers gathered from across Europe to analyse the situation and prepare for the Platform Work Directive. A key theme: "Bogus employment" is no solution to bogus-self employment! eomail5.com/web-version?...eomail5.comReport from the 'Platforum' in Nicosia: Sub-contracting & sub-human working conditionsGEP Newsletter 053
Reposted by Aju JohnBen Wray @benwray1989.bsky.social · 23/09/2025My report for the ETUC on how workers can 'negotiate the algorithm' has been published! Algorithmic management is an increasingly normalised part of industrial relations and impinges on fundamental aspects of working conditions, like pay andperformance evaluation 1/2 bsky.app/profile/etuc... 111
Reposted by Aju JohnPlatforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 22/05/2025How is the fungibility of money<->data in #credit relations intermediated? Writing about #India, in a recent paper Rahul Mukherjee traces the #platform #intermediation processes in the loan app ecosystem. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 032
Reposted by Aju JohnAditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 15/09/2025🚨 Our research on unions and organising in India's platform society covered in the media, for which both me and my co-author @islandexpress.bsky.social were also interviewed: "Why unions find it hard to forge worker solidarity in the platform economy". behanbox.com/2025/09/05/w...behanbox.comWhy Unions Find It Hard To Forge Worker Solidarity In Platform CompaniesIn the platform economy, time is scarce, worker interactions are discouraged, and protests met with punishment. The idea of both union and unity are threatened 161
Aju John @islandexpress.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Students from India are bearing the entire business and legal risk of the German operations of venture-backed food delivery platforms such as Wolt, Uber Eats, and most recently, Lieferando. One only needs to observe the new "fat bikes" on the streets of Europe and ask, who is paying for them? 010
Aju John @islandexpress.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Next weekend, food delivery workers and allies will provide free cricket coaching at Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld. 010
Aju John @islandexpress.bsky.social · 31/07/2025A report about (and the broader context of) some recent litigation against Wolt by workers claiming unpaid wages even as the food delivery giant hid behind subcontracting chains. www.theleftberlin.com/wolt-riders/theleftberlin.comRiders without rightsThe workers who deliver and don’t get paid 010
Aju John @islandexpress.bsky.social · 26/07/2025International student or migrant low-wage worker? Or both? The written and unwritten rules of international student mobility and skilled worker mobility currently operate to maintain a steady supply of low-wage labour to the global North. youtu.be/kB9uTvwGCuE?...youtu.beRevealing the Struggles of South Asian Students in Germany | Dheeraj Tyagi & Aju JohnYouTube video by Beyond Borders Podcast 021
Reposted by Aju JohnBen Wray @benwray1989.bsky.social · 01/07/2025A historic day in the battle against bogus self-employment in the platform economy: Glovo, Spain's largest food delivery platform, finally stops using bogus self-employed riders, after a 4-year battle with the govt and hundreds of millions in fines. 🧵 152
Aju John @islandexpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Fresh! The first episode of the second season of Delivery Charge. It's about migrants from South Asia doing food delivery work in Berlin. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1tDm... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/e... Podbean: deliverycharge.podbean.com/e/e1-punjab-...open.spotify.comE1: Punjab to Potsdamer PlatzDelivery Charge · Episode 055
Reposted by Aju JohnValentin Niebler @vni.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Am Donnerstag findet vor dem Arbeitsgericht Berlin die Verhandlung über #Lohnraub beim Lieferdienst #Wolt statt. Es klagt einen Kurierin der über 3000 EUR von einem Subunternehmer vorenthalten wurden. Mehrere Initiativen rufen zu einer Kundgebung um 11 Uhr vor dem Gericht auf. 174
Aju John @islandexpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2025A South Asian woman claims unpaid wages directly from Wolt in Berlin, rejects platform's attempt to shift liability down a subcontracting chain. Press statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comPress Release: Migrant Woman Delivery Worker sues Wolt for Payment of WagesPress Statement: A South Asian woman claims unpaid wages from Wolt, rejects billion dollar platform corporation’s attempt to shift liability down a subcontracting chain Summary In November 2022, Shar... 010
Aju John @islandexpress.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Civil society demands ILO act against harmful unregulated practices in platform work. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...hrw.orgILO: Adopt Binding Treaty to Protect ‘Gig’ WorkersGovernments and employers’ representatives at the International Labour Organization (ILO) conference should agree to a new treaty to protect “gig” workers. 010
Reposted by Aju JohnAditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 22/05/2025What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age? Thrilled about this new open-access paper with @islandexpress in @compchange.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1177/1024... It's packed with ideas. A thread of it's key interventions: 7249
