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    Undercutters thwarted

    Apr 13, 2022 3 minutes
    Michael Kaine

    Through a decade-long Transport Workers Union (TWU) New South Wales campaign to get fair pay increases for owner-driver couriers, AmazonFlex has been brought kicking and screaming into the fold and held to account for the substandard pay and conditions it has been imposing on drivers it says are independent contractors.

    This is a major blow to Amazon’s game of underpaying drivers using their own cars to deliver parcels under the independent contractor model widely exploited across the gig economy.

    In the US this same gig model

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