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Community & Empowering Gig Workers Initiatives
Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union
Type of Innovation
Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union conducted an awareness program for drivers on car fire safety.
Advantages for workers
To prevent incidents of cars catching fire in summer, motorists were urged to follow vehicle safety requirements and take their cars for regular maintenance.
Flipkart Foundation & Deepalaya
Type of Innovation
Flipkart Foundation has partnered with Deepalaya to launch ‘Nari Shakti,’ a program empowering marginalized girls and women through skill development.
Advantages for workers
The program will provide training to women above 18 years of age who reside in the targeted geographic areas. The training will be imparted in two batches for the courses, incorporating skill and capacity building on entrepreneurship, health, and nutrition as part of the curriculum.
The primary objective of this initiative is to train over 600 young girls and women with essential vocational skills that will help foster the seed for being financially self-dependent among these girls and encourage them to establish micro-enterprises, thereby paving the way for sustainable livelihoods.
What type of innovation?
The Fairwork project is based at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre. Through a global network of researchers, they evaluate the working conditions of digital platforms and rank them based on our five principles of fair work that digital platforms should comply with in order to be considered Fairwork compliant (fair pay, fair conditions, fair contracts, fair management, fair representation).The Fairwork project is currently operating in 20 countries across 5 continents.
Advantages for workers
After collaborating with Fairwork, some platforms have made changes to improve their fairness towards workers, and their Fairwork score, by adopting formal policies to pay a living wage or engaging with a collective bodt of workers. These changes all help workers to know and assert their rights, as well as helping platform users to make informed choices about the labour practices they choose to support.
What type of innovation?
A non profit organisation dedicated to helping workers access and gain insight from data collected from them at work.
Advantages for workers
Worker gain better control over their personal data at work.
WIE's team makes specific subject access and data portability requests on behalf of workers.
Then they carry out targeted investigations and data analyses to expose unfair algorithmic decision making.
They also support trade unions and worker organisations to aggregate their data with other workers through the development of data trusts.
Website
https://www.workerinfoexchange.org/
What type of innovation?
A community platform of part timers with a diverse range of experiences (the so called "GoGetters", more than 20,000 workers).
Advantages for workers
GoGet’s vision is to bring flexible work to the world in a sustainable manner. The community has to be a "safe place" for the workers and the platform has to get access to benefits by providing: the ability to learn and upskill through online trainin; the ability to network and build a career; the access to financial benefits such as on demand savings or on demand insurance. Micro-loans are on the way as well.
Website
https://goget.my/
What type of innovation?
A global peer-based platform designed specifically to support workers who want to know their rights, start a campaign and take action.
Advantages for workers
CoWorker.org helps workers fighting to protect their rights. A team of advocacy experts and organizers back workers and groups alike by offering proven education and training, strategic support, research, data analysis, and a range of advocacy tools.They host and promote petition campaigns, do research on working conditions, and collect new insights, analysis and data about what's happening in the global economy.
Website
https://home.coworker.org/
What type of innovation?
A collaboration of Gig workers and researchers, supported by the Scottish Trades Union Congress and the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh, to monitor the Gig work and assist deliverers, carers and tech workers.
Advantages for workers
Workers can benefit from insights, analysis, and collective interventions to improve and modify their working conditions. The Observatory deploys legal tools, information about labour laws, algorithms and data access.
What type of innovation?
A self-tracking app that lets workers monitor the real hours they work, while keeping control over their data.
Advantages for workers
WeClock equips workers with a way to quantify their workday. They can use it to collect insights and gather data which could ultimately help unions bargain for better pay and working conditions.
Website
https://weclock.it/
Driver's Seat - United States
What type of innovation?
A driver-owned app that allows workers for Uber, Lyft and similar ride-hailing platforms to track performances and keep good records.
Advantages for workers
Driver’s Seat helps drivers to track their shifts and keep an independent record of all their driving work in one place over time. They can optimize their earnings by answering questions like: "When is the most productive time to work?", "Is my driving strategy working?", "How much do I truly earn hourly?".
Website
https://driversseat.co/
Foodpanda and UN Women - Pakistan
Type of Innovation
UN Women and Foodpanda Pakistan have reached a mutual understanding for the cooperation and promotion of gender equality in the workplace.
Advantages for workers
FoodPanda pledged to implement capacity-building initiatives to empower women at all positions, thus acknowledging their rights as also specified by the UN Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs).