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EU’s Vestager: Gig Workforce Should Be Able To Unionize For Better Pay

October 24, 2019
Margrethe Vestager
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EU’s Vestager: Gig Workforce Should Be Able To Unionize For Better Pay

October 24, 2019
European Union antitrust chief and Silicon Valley critic Margrethe Vestager said gig economy workers should join forces for better pay, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Oct. 24).  She further pledged that EU rules can’t prevent gig economy workers from forming unions. “Platform workers should be able to team up, to defend their rights,” Vestager said. […]