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A trade union that won a landmark case against Uber in the UKs Supreme Court had a culture of abuse and toxicity, with an internal power struggle threatening to paralyze its operations, according to a damning independent report obtained by WIRED...
The report into the App Drivers and Couriers Union, or ADCU, which was commissioned by the union itself last summer and conducted by a leading UK barrister, also identified incidents of racial abuse and Islamophobia, mistreatment of staff, and evidence that senior figures within the union created well-paid jobs which they subsequently appointed themselves into.. James Farrar, the unions leader and general secretary, resigned when the report was finalized last week..
In his resignation, which he shared with WIRED, Farrar acknowledged his part in the problems at the union but said that its future has never looked brighter, adding that it was time to make way for new leaders, fresh ideas and different ways of doing things..
Abdurzak Hadi, the ADCUs London chair, told WIRED on behalf of the union that its ruling national executive committee, or NEC, was committed to implementing the recommendations in full and that union leadership would now be consulting its membership on the report's findings...
The report also criticized Farrar for taking on a full-time role at the charity the Workers Information Exchange while still serving as the ADCUs general secretary, essentially meaning he was serving as an unpaid, part-time leader of a union representing thousands of workers while also working full-time for another organization..
