“There is common ground in recognizing that the [rapid response] mechanism has had a positive impact,” said Paulo Marinaro, Solidarity Center Mexico country director. “Thanks to the legitimation processes, (workers) have been able to remove themselves from the control of employer protection unions, by using the tool of the mechanism to guarantee an even floor.”
“To the extent that Western brands have pulled out unquestionably this has given carte blanche to factories to drive down labor conditions and increase violations of Burmese labor law and trade union rights,” said Dave Welsh, Myanmar country director of labor rights group Solidarity Center.
“Food and goods delivery digital platform work is already some of the most precarious, underpaid employment in Brazil,” Gonzalo Martinez de Vedia, Brazil program director at labor rights organization Solidarity Center, told Rest of World. “Any new fee that subtracts from wages in that equation throws the sector further into substandard conditions.”
“Gig workers need to be working more than 12 hours a day, seven days a week across multiple platforms to make a living,” Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero, who researches gig work platforms at labor rights organization Solidarity Center in Mexico City, told Rest of World. “Renting one of their accounts is a way of bringing in additional money.”
“’Right now, there is more exciting union organizing in Mexico than anywhere else in the world,’ said Shawna Bader-Blau, head of the Solidarity Center, a global worker rights advocacy group. ‘We are seeing new independent unions and actual collective bargaining producing significant wage increases for the first time in decades.’”