Learning from gig worker organizing

SFU Labour Studies

SFU's Labour Studies Program  invites you to the first webinar in its series Just Recovery? Labour, Organizing and the Future We Want.

<p>This event will be held on Zoom. A link will be sent out via email the day before the event. For those who register after 4:00pm on February 11, 2021, you will receive a link to the webinar by 11:00am on February 12, 2021. </p><p>FREE and open to all.</p><h3>Learning from Gig Worker Organizing</h3><p>From food delivery workers to rideshare drivers, organizing by gig and platform workers is one of the big labour stories of recent years. So is the subsequent push back by employers, including efforts to pass Proposition 22 in California and Foodora’s decision to leave the Ontario market. This webinar brings together two organizers of these struggles to consider the lessons learned and the implications for the future of work and worker organizing as we exit the pandemic. </p><p>We ask: What is the future of work post-COVID-19, and how do recent struggles to organize gig workers speak to broader challenges of organizing for a just recovery from the pandemic?</p>

<h3>Webinar Presenters:
</h3><p><strong>Aaron Spires</strong> is a letter carrier at Canada Post, and in 2015 was elected
 as the National Union Representative responsible for external organizing
 for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. He worked with field organizers
 and foodora couriers to successfully challenge the couriers'
 misclassification at the Ontario Labour Relations Board, and secure an 89% 'Yes' vote in favour of unionization.
</p><p><strong>Cherri Murphy</strong> is a social justice minister in the East Bay, California and a doctoral student at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.  She is also a Lyft driver and lead organizer for Gig Workers Rising.
</p><h3>Moderator:

</h3><p><strong></strong><a href="https://www.sfu.ca/communication/team/faculty/enda-brophy.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><strong>Dr. Enda Brophy</strong> </a>is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and an Associate in the <a href="http://www.sfu.ca/labour.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Labour Studies Program</a> at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Language Put to Work: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce. His current research explores labour organizing through and against digital platforms.
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