This story is actually a month old, but I missed it at the time. Over the last year or so, organising among Deliveroo workers has become increasingly international, as seen in the actions taken by Deliveroo riders in Berlin this summer, but it’s been hard for those of us not directly involved to keep up with developments ever since a certain group that used to do a really good Deliveroo bulletin got so over-excited about Oh Jeremy Corbyn that they forgot about it.

Anyway, in early October the Bristol Post reported that a group of Deliveroo riders had staged a wildcat over unpaid wages, quoting riders as saying:

“The company said they would pay us £4.25 per delivery to work between 5.30pm and 10pm but we were only paid £3.75. This has happened three or four times before but they always pay the next day. This time twenty-five-plus riders e-mailed and texted Deliveroo rider support to say they hadn’t been paid correctly but they didn’t reply to any of us.

As soon as we called the Bristol office this evening and told them we were going on strike they said they would pay us. They called the head office in London who said they would sort out the payments right away – but even then, they didn’t pay people the right amount. We are on strike because this is not the first time this has happened. If they don’t pay us again we will be back here on strike again.”

It’s not clear if the riders have any kind of formal organisation at the moment – in the past the Bristol IWW have been involved in organising Deliveroo riders, but they weren’t mentioned in the article, and don’t seem to have had much to say about the dispute.