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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Helen Pidd

‘Snoop Dogg is advertising Just Eat, but it is me that has to deliver it’: the courier leading the UK’s longest gig-economy strike

Parirs Dixon: ‘We only want what they took from us.’
Parirs Dixon: ‘We only want what they took from us.’ Photograph: Jo Ritchie/The Guardian

“Don’t do it, brother!” shouts Parirs Dixon as a Just Eat delivery driver approaches a branch of Greggs in Sheffield city centre with his bag open, ready to fill with pastries. “Did you not know about the strike?”

The driver looks confused. Dixon, who is chomping a slice of pizza in the bakery doorway, dispatches an Arabic speaker from the picket line to explain why the driver shouldn’t collect his order.

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