Courier's Crusade for basic working rights!

BREAKING NEWS: new pay offer submitted by E-Courier to avoid impending protest has been ACCEPTED by vote in our branch meeting tonight! By the Unions calculations this package will bring e-couriers into Living Wage territory, as well as addressing the costs currently incurred by riders to keep pedalling each day. The package includes an additional 20p per docket on top of 20p increase from last month, plus an increase in weekly bonus cap, free uniforms, and 10p per mile compensation for costs. This amounts to a nearly 30% pay rise and is a major VICTORY for Couriers who have took a stand against exploitation! We are celebrating E-Courier's choice to better the lives of their fleet (although it took more than a little nudging to provoke it!). We will be keeping close tabs on the implementation of these changes to make sure every penny promised will be payed to the couriers- please note however that Wednesday's protest is CANCELLED- and for E-Couriers: CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PAYRISE!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XwLrc3otik

Bump for a good cause

Radio4 is slated to be with us on Protest day Tuesday, as will a film crew, a number of journalists as well as LOADS of supporters. There will be tea coffee and breakfast supplied come down from 9am!

BREAKING NEWS! Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett @natalieben will join us at our protest against @CitySprint_UK Tuesday... She will speak about 9:20am BE THERE @IWGBUnion

BREAKING NEWS: BBCLondonNews will be covering the protest tomorrow! They want to get the human story and explain to Londoners why they should care about the rates we are paid, what our job is like and how important it is. They want to put a go-pro on someone's bike for a couple of deliveries and it should be on TV at 6:30pm! See you tomorrow!

https://www.facebook.com/couriers.andlogisticsbranch/photos/a.824353044321507.1073741826.824352997654845/842240982532713/?type=1&theater

Good luck guys. Hope it pays off.

What an amazing day! Please continue your support and let's raise awareness to all about the exploitation that has been happening for many many years in the Courier Industry!

BBC London News really helped get our story across. They are absolutely right - only HIGHER RATES will make an impact on our quality of life.
Watch from 16:10

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05xpj9b/bbc-london-news-09062015

It's on Vice now too. They took the time to do a decent nuanced piece, too.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/iwgb-cycle-couriers-city-sprint-348

Since the protest, we will continue to pressure CitySprint. Keeping up the pressure, the IWGB President wrote to CitySprint to update them. Read it here:

http://iwgb.org.uk/2015/06/12/latest-iwgb-letter-to-city-sprint/

PLEASE SING AND SHARE THE PETITION! MUCH LOVE!
https://www.change.org/p/city-sprint-uk-raise-the-rates-pay-your-couriers-more?recruiter=7866100&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_facebook_responsive&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-custom_msg&fb_ref=Default

Done

thank you

It has been a pretty exciting few weeks since our initial protest. Massive interest and support from all sides which I want to thank you. The coming Wednesday on the 22nd we will be going once again to CitySprint head office to let them know we are still here and not going away until we get what we deserve. See you at 58-62 Scrutton street, London EC2A 4PH for a prework fun. It should set us up for a great day ahead.

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Have citysprint said or done anything since the last one?

Good luck with this. Would be there if I was in the country.

Hey Jezston
this is a letter from them a day before the initial protest
https://iwgbunion.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/city-sprint-letter-1.pdf
and our response
http://iwgb.org.uk/2015/06/08/breaking-news-city-sprint-respond-to-iwgb-pressure/

thanks for the support anyway
oh by the way citysprint latest email has the similar brainwashing bullshit just like the first one

We'd like to thank @linklatersllp Linklaters for hosting our flash protest! As a proudly ‪#‎livingwage‬ accredited employer, LinkLaters should take a special interest in people like us who are integral to the functioning of their business. As part of their responsible business initiative, Linklaters states:

As a leading global law firm, we want our performance to be measured not only by our profitability as a business but also by our impact on the societies and environments in which we operate"

Our aim was to highlight the chain of exploitation that links clients like Linklaters to ‪#‎CitySprint‬ , who haven't raised the rates they pay their couriers in 15+ years, and are currently refusing to pay a Living Wage despite an ongoing campaign against them. If Linklaters wants to avoid being held jointly accountable for the couriers who deliver their parcels being paid poverty wages, as well as to preserve their livingwage accreditation, Linklaters must demand an immediate change from CitySprint- specifically to enter into dialogue with the IWGB and introduce a minimum rate of the ‪#‎londonlivingwage‬, plus reasonable costs and expenses for their couriers.

It was great fun too! Thanks to everyone who took part and made it happen! It's one success in a stairway to change that will continue in the form of taking our #londonlivingwage campaign to Citysprint and other major clients until our demands have been met!

Please sign and share!
https://www.change.org/p/city-sprint-uk-raise-the-rates-pay-your-couriers-more?recruiter=7866100&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_facebook_responsive&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-custom_msg&fb_ref=Default