{"id":62140,"date":"2018-10-10T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T13:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/10\/unions-should-learn-from-momentum-if-they-want-to-mobilise-millennials-rhiannon-lucy-cosslett\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T13:53:49","slug":"unions-should-learn-from-momentum-if-they-want-to-mobilise-millennials-rhiannon-lucy-cosslett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=62140","title":{"rendered":"Unions should learn from Momentum if they want to mobilise millennials | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uber action and McStrike suggest young people are increasingly seeing the benefits of fighting for their rightsAs a semi-regular Uber user, I listened to calls by drivers on Tuesday not to cross a digital picket line during their 24-hour strike \u2013 the latest attempt to unionise the gig economy. Members of United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD), a branch of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, are campaigning for a higher rate per mile, an end to what they claim are unfair deactivations, and a reduction in the commission that they have to pay. Drivers staged rallies outside Uber offices in London, Birmingham and Nottingham, and many logged off the app and stayed home. Related: Wetherspoons dishes out poverty wages. That\u2019s why I\u2019m striking | Katie Southworth Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/oct\/10\/unions-momentum-millennials-uber-mcstrike\" target=\"_blank\">Unions should learn from Momentum if they want to mobilise millennials | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uber action and McStrike suggest young people are increasingly seeing the benefits of fighting for their rightsAs a semi-regular Uber user, I listened to calls by drivers on Tuesday not to cross a digital picket line during their 24-hour strike \u2013 the latest attempt to unionise the gig economy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}