by dankeelan | Oct 5, 2021 | Benefits, Featured, Gig Workers, Pay
Gig Workers Collective, a grassroots organization fighting for better treatment of independent contractors, has announced planning for a walk off for Instacart shoppers on October 16. The group says shoppers will cease work until Instacart meets five demands, which...
by dankeelan | Oct 5, 2021 | Gig Workers
Napoleon didn’t deride the English as “a nation of shopkeepers,” although that phrase is commonly attributed to him. In fact, it was Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, a French revolutionary who used it when attacking the achievements of British Prime Minister William Pitt,...
by dankeelan | Oct 5, 2021 | Gig Workers, Technology, Tips, Tools
As a gig worker, the most essential aspect of your job will be to meet a plethora of deadlines. If you miss deadlines, you don’t get paid, and you’ll quickly lose customers. You want to be known as a reliable worker so that the request and recommendations continue to...
by dankeelan | Oct 5, 2021 | Featured, Finance, Gig Workers, Tips
Detroit bass player Grover “GT” Tigue knows too well about the wildly varying rhythms of the gig economy. Tigue has been a musician for the past 21 years, but he saw his bookings crash for roughly a year during the pandemic. “I didn’t start gigging in 2021 until about...
by dankeelan | Sep 28, 2021 | Gig Workers, Technology
When Londoner Rich Mason signed up as a bicycle food delivery rider in 2017, he found the long hours, poor pay and lack of communication from management “jaw-dropping” – so he started his own delivery app instead. One of his proudest moments was in June this year when...
by dankeelan | Sep 28, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Safety
The lives of delivery workers in major US cities are dangerous, surprisingly expensive, and largely only possible because of the support app-based laborers offer each other. But a new editorial series from Rest of World shows that the experiences of US-based gig...
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