Working class people who were told that their work isn't real work, that they do not count, had the audacity to unite together and to say, fuck it, we are going to unionize our company.

Hello. Hello and welcome to Zach Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and today my guests are Jennifer Scott and Brees Soper.

Jennifer and Brice are both gig workers who work in Toronto, and they are respectively the president and vice president of Gig Workers United.

As part of this month's series on gig work around the world, I'm speaking to Jennifer and

Brees to get an idea of what's been going on in the gig economy in Canada and specifically

in the Greater Toronto area where they are based and where they do their work.

Jennifer and Brice are on the where they do their work. Jennifer and

Brees are on the front lines of this work. They're gig workers themselves and, you know, they're

organizers who are working with their fellow workers to demand that the companies respect their

rights, but also that governments in Canada pass laws that guarantee them their rights now and in the future. We have a really

fantastic conversation and talk about a lot of important issues in the Canadian context and also

spend some time talking about the Fudora campaign, which I think a lot of people outside of

Canada might not be familiar with, but that was when Foodsters United, which is kind of the

precursor to gig workers United, took on Fudora and got a ruling at the Ontario Labor Board

that allowed them to unionize. And soon after Fudora left the country instead of recognizing that

union. But as Jennifer and Brees described, whether Fudora actually left because of

the union recognition or just because their business was going so incredibly poorly in Canada,

you know, it's kind of unknown what was actually the factor that led to them to pull the trigger.

This is a great conversation. I think you're really going to like it. And I also want to let you know

about one more thing before we get into the conversation. There is a gig workers bill of rights

for Canada that was developed in part by gig workers United. And if you want to support these workers

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