Work through a digital platform starts with consent. On signing up, a person accepts the platform’s terms. Those same terms contain a separate clause on changes: the platform may change the rules, the algorithms and the prices at any time, and if you keep working, the new terms are treated as accepted. Notice often comes only after the change, and in one general sentence. You have to find the difference yourself. Refusing the new terms means one thing in practice: stop working.

A lone soldier in the field can do nothing. A platform does not deal with one person’s problems. You will know this from your own work:

• Blocks at will. A customer invents a disputed complaint, and the app blocks you at once, without asking what you say and without looking at the camera recording.
• Rising commission and hidden terms. You cannot see the destination, the commission keeps rising, and no one counts your real cost of fuel, servicing and wear on the car or the bicycle.
• Support with no person in it. A request is answered by artificial intelligence, or by an operator reading from a copied script.

A message from one driver or courier remains a ticket that the app ignores.

The Trade Union of Digital Platform Workers (OZ PDP) was set up to change this. We bring together everyone who works through platforms: employees, workers on an agreement, sole traders and single-member s.r.o. companies. When it is an account block, pay or new rules, the union speaks for you. We will not leave you to it alone.

From 2 December 2026

From 2 December 2026 the platform work law gives what was not there before:

• A union may represent not only employees, but also sole traders and people who run their own business.
• A platform may not penalise you in any way for union activity or for a protest.
• Only a person may restrict or close an account, not the algorithm on its own.
• If your account is blocked or the terms change, you must be given a written and specific reason.
• The platform must disclose how the algorithms work, and at least once every two years assess their effect on people, with worker representatives taking part.

On their own these provisions will change nothing. The union exists to see that they are kept. We will not let platforms and fleet operators do as they please. The more of us there are, the stronger the voice.

Besides legal protection, the union also provides concrete benefits. As membership grows, there will be more of them: partner discounts, help in a hard situation, and rest for members’ children.

Membership is voluntary. You join through the primary organisation in your region. When you register on the site, we place you in it ourselves.