In a city with a long history of industrial action, gig workers are staging a very modern dispute over their pay, reports The Sunday Times.
When Parirs Dixon sent a WhatsApp message to his fellow Just Eat couriers in Sheffield, bemoaning their new pay terms, he did not expect to make history.
But more than two months on, he is leading the longest-running strike in the gig economy — in the city that, more than 30 years ago, had the lengthiest industrial dispute in British history.
The couriers, who work through Stuart, an independent delivery contractor, were told over Zoom last year of a change in their conditions which they say amounted to a 24 per cent pay cut.
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