🔈 This week, our director @caileangallagher.bsky.social joined the panel at @scga.bsky.social State of the World: Emerging & Disruptive Technologies.
"The challenge is to make the degeneration of work by AI-driven platforms only a temporary disruption of workers' power and rights."
🚲 Check out the new report
"Wellbeing, Health, and Road Safety in On-Demand Delivery work?"
📑 Commissioned by ScORSA and delivered by our researchers @karengregory.bsky.social and @bkarb.bsky.social
🔎 "Beyond physical hazards, gig workers also face significant psychological risks"
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🔈 Last Saturday, Xabier I. Villares went to Wester Hailes to participate in "How can Work Work for Us?" organised by Community Wellbeing Collectives.
Thanks for having us!
Huge thanks to @edi.bike for linking to our most recent @workersobservatory.org + SCoRSA report on well-being, health, and road safety in on-demand delivery. 🫡
buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...
🔍 It finds, among other things, that workplace safety is completely inadequate in app-based food delivery.
🔗 Access to the full report here:
workersobservatory.org/resources/re...
✍ @karengregory.bsky.social and @bkarb.bsky.social from the Workers’ Observatory collaborated with the Scottish Occupational Road Safety Alliance (ScORSA) to publish a new report, entitled Well-Being, Health, and Road Safety in On- Demand Delivery Work.
📒 NEW REPORT!
🚲 Food delivery platforms pay low rates in dangerous conditions. Workers are often forced to prioritise speed over safety.
The Workers' Observatory coordinator @caileangallagher.bsky.social will participate in "SCGA State of the World: Emerging & Disruptive Technologies", exploring how AI and advanced digital tech shape Scotland and the world.
Come along!
📆Mon 2 Mar
⏰17.30
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scga-state...
🚲 ROOM has a message for you!
Delivery riders face all kinds of hazards every day when working in the streets.
⚠️ Respecting bike lanes is vital to have safer roads for all!
#deliveryriders #gigeconomy #gigwork #edinburgh
This Saturday from 12.00 pm, we'll join "How can Work Work for Us?", organised by the great Community Wellbeing Collective in Wester Hailes, with a few other incredibly hardworking organisations.
Everybody is welcome!
This Saturday from 12.00 pm, we'll join "How can Work Work for Us?", organised by the great Community Wellbeing Collective in Wester Hailes, with a few other incredibly hardworking organisations.
Everybody is welcome!
Looking forward to this @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social & SCGA event:
The State of the World: Emerging and Disruptive Technologies
scga.scot/2026/02/09/t...
with @caileangallagher.bsky.social from @workersobservatory.org
New report out now from me and @bkarb.bsky.social at @workersobservatory.org
ScORSA Scoping Review: Wellbeing, Health, and Road Safety in On-Demand Delivery Work
workersobservatory.org/resources/re...
Tomorrow, Tuesday at 11.00 @karengregory.bsky.social & @bkarb.bsky.social of The Workers Observatory team will be talking about their new report.
You can register here:
👉https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/683ebf79-40f2-4d38-85e7-6dee48414c54@49662788-c10b-4940-a0c8-5e016fc28d18
⚠️ Webinar on Road Safety Risk and the Gig Economy
The risks faced by gig workers would be totally unacceptable in most industries.
workersobservatory.org/news/new-res...
🚲 ROOM has a message for you!
Delivery riders face all kinds of hazards every day when working in the streets.
⚠️ Respecting bike lanes is vital to have safer roads for all!
#deliveryriders #gigeconomy #gigwork #edinburgh
🚲 Are you a delivery rider in Edinburgh?
Come to the next ROOM´s monthly gathering!
📩 Any questions?
Just drop a message: info@workersobservatory.org
Our secretary Xabier Villares spoke at Scotland's Annual Human Rights Conference 2026 on behalf of @migrantsjusticedin.bsky.social , about the long/term project that we are working on.
Thanks @hrcscotland.bsky.social , for inviting us, and for your constant call to action!
Image of someone driving a car. Text reads: Dr Karen Gregory on the Gig economy: new research soon
"We’re pleased to announce that in partnership with Dr Karen Gregory (@uoe-sps.bsky.social) and Boyan Karabaliev (@workersobservatory.org), ScORSA will be launching new research on the gig economy at our upcoming Road Safety Hour."
Feb 24th: lnkd.in/eCTyaqBG
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Another great workshop this week with food delivery riders using Workers Inquiry to build a political strategy ahead of the Scottish elections 🔭
With @workersobservatory.org today and listening to @bkarb.bsky.social talk about migrant workers' voting rights in Scotland.
Edinburgh City Councillors meet food delivery workers in Workers' Observatory workshop
🎯 Getting Gig Work on Scotland's Political Agenda
Food delivery workers joined the Workers' Observatory workshop this week to build political momentum towards fair and safe gig work in Scotland.
You can read the workers' principles and policy demands here: workersobservatory.org/documents/WO...
New from @workersobservatory.org, who have launched a set of principles and policies to spur MSP candidates for May’s Scottish Parliament elections.
At their core is a demand for fair pay and workplace safety.
workersobservatory.org/news/gig-wor...
📣Migrant Justice Edinburgh has been mentioned in the latest issue of Scottish Left Review. The editorial highlights our work to build migrant solidarity and challenge racism in Edinburgh.
scottishleftreview.scot/recapture-th...
@regenfuturesfund.bsky.social
A phenomenal team, a prescient and urgent project, and it's a privilege to be working with them through the @workersobservatory.org #InternationalMigrantsDay
Today, as we mark #InternationalMigrantsDay, we want to introduce Migrant Justice Edinburgh, a new project proving that migrants are not passive or invisible, but that through our stories, ideas, actions and decisions we can change our city for the better.
@regenfuturesfund.bsky.social
We're excited to be heading into 2026 working with two other organisations to build Migrants Justice Edinburgh ✊🏾 #InternationalMigrantsDay
The @workersobservatory.org is going into a new collaboration in 2026 and I'm really looking forward to seeing what develops here. Amazing work to date via @regenfuturesfund.bsky.social-- thank you!
The @workersobservatory.org website has been updated. Many thanks @bkarb.bsky.social for all your work on this:
workersobservatory.org
Yes, we have been a bit missing over here for the last two months!
We´ve been busy connecting with workers and migrant communities in Craigmillar and Niddrie, and we want to share with you more about this journey.
✒️Full article here: workersobservatory.org/building-the...
#Craigmillar #gigwork
