GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

job that you do and move on to different things. The only way that we are

going to help our colleagues and our members who pay our jobs and keep us

all where we are is to have a pathway to education, to have a pathway of unity

and a pathway to shared services and I just want to finish on this and say that if

we all link together and join together we can make our services for our

members better for the future, more fit for the future and, to quote our slogan,

we need to belong to be strong and on that I thank you very much for your

time. Cheers. (Applause)

THE PRESIDENT: Thanks very much, Glyn. The next item on the agenda, given

what we have just changed, would be Motion 2 on the ‘gig’ economy in the

name of Community.

MOTION 2 – SHARING THE ‘GIG’ ECONOMY WITH ALL

BRO ROBERT MOONEY (Community) moved the following motion:

Conference notes that the ‘gig’ economy can and should be fairer and

acknowledges the role trade unions have had in securing that in recent months.

Conference believes that the ‘gig’ economy can play a pivotal role in providing

a path back to work for those who struggle to gain access to traditional

employment such as new parents or disabled workers.

Conference notes Uber’s new partnership with Lingoing that aims to attract a

greater number of deaf and hard of hearing partners onto the Uber app and

takes advantage of the use of accessible technology.

Conference believes that the systems operating in the UK to support traditional

employment, whether through employment law, tax systems or the welfare

state, contradict the needs of ‘gig’ workers and ‘gig’ employers and further

excludes those who struggle to access work. Conference believes it is crucial

that trade unions engage with digital platforms such as Deliveroo to make

meaningful and timely interventions that provide fairer working conditions.

Conference calls on the GFTU to:

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