Date Posted
8 November 2024 09:11 GMT

Taking Uber to court and winning

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James Farrar of Worker Info Exchange talks to Critical Takes about:

  • winning a landmark UK court case against Uber (to 06:56);
  • why automated decision-making is a problem for workers (to 12:17);
  • are politicians’ attitudes changing? (to 15:46);
  • about Worker Info exchange (to 18:00), and;
  • what’s next for platform companies like Uber (19:35 onwards)

 

 

The music on this audio recording is from Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 15 (K. 533), played by Jonathan Biss and downloaded from musopen.org under a Creative Commons licence.

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