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Transport union hails Uber deal
An agreement between gig economy company Uber and the Transport Workers’ Union has led to joint support for legislating industry-wide standards including a minimum wage.
An agreement between gig economy company Uber and the Transport Workers’ Union has led to joint support for legislating industry-wide standards including a minimum wage.
A push for personal aerial transport raises safety, privacy and environmental issues which need resolving before takeoff, argues Morry Bailes.
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Beware the wolves in sheep’s clothing – the power and politics driving the “future of work” conversation is anti-worker by design. The labour movement needs to steel itself for the fight of a lifetime – and the time is now, argues Alice Dawkins.
Transport Minister Stephan Knoll says there is “absolutely no correlation” between the State Government’s Uber-style bus service trial and the closure of Uber services in Mount Barker and the Barossa Valley.
An Adelaide former Uber Eats driver is appealing a court decision that she wasn’t an employee when sacked for a late delivery. But Uber is the flagbearer for a “parasitical” model gig economy in which hard-won worker rights are being stripped away at the click of an app, argues Peter Fleming, Carl Rhodes and Kyoung-Hee Yu.
The US Department of Justice has filed criminal charges accusing Anthony Levandowski, a pioneer in self-driving car technology, of stealing trade secrets from his former employer Google before joining rival Uber Technologies.