Become a union member!
The union is the organization made to keep us together as workers and defend our rights. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what job you have, even if you quit your job as a bike messenger tomorrow: without a union, income inequality increases and participation and social security decrease. But a union is only strong if it has many members.
Become a member of the VIDA trade union.
Sign up hereVida is the trade union for services such as care, gastronomy, transport and logistics, so also for bicycle messenger service, and is therefore our trade union.Vida stands up for fair working conditions and represents you against your employer. Our strength is your membership.
This is what VIDA offers to employees in the bicycle messenger industry:
• Rider Cap
• Free legal advice from the beginning of the membership
• Vida advantage card with over 1,000 offers
• Daily hospital allowance in case of accidents (leisure and occupational accidents)
• Professional liability insurance up to 100,000 Euro*
• Professional legal protection insurance up to 20,000 Euro*
• Free legal protection*
*after 6 months of membership
Real employees
As a real employee,
the membership fee is 1% of the regular monthly gross earnings per month.
free service contract
As a free service contract worker
the contribution is only 10€ per month.
If you are a bike messenger and are contracted as a free service contract worker or independent contractor, please tick „other“ in the column "type of employment" and enter 10€ in the field "Gross monthly wage in €".
If you earn below the marginal earnings limit, your contribution is only € 3.50! Please tick „other“ in the Type of employment column and enter monthly gross salary in €, enter € 3.50.
Marginal
Rider Cap
Vida members not only have advantages at work, but also in their free time.
With your vida card you not only get cheaper tickets for sports and cultural events in our card office, but also a lot of shopping advantages in many stores throughout Austria.
A few examples and many more under more!
Vida-members card
20 % Rabatt
10 % Rabatt
Spezialangebot
Vida helps to save.
-4% on savings vouchers as of now.
As a vida member, use your vida advantage and buy discounted savings vouchers in the vida voucher store. You can buy vouchers worth a maximum of 400 EUR every month and benefit immediately from the vida advantage!
Vida-voucher shop
In the event of a hospital stay due to an accident, the member is entitled to € 4.00 for each necessary hospital day from the first day of the stay- if the hospital stay is at least 4 days.
However, the insurance benefit is limited to € 308.00 within one year from the day of the accident.
Hospital allowance
How else can you support the Riders Collective?
There are many possibilities:
- Become a union member! The union is the organization that is made to keep us together as workers and defend our rights. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what job you have, even if you quit your job as a bike messenger tomorrow: without a union, income inequality increases and participation and social security decrease. But a union is only strong if it has many members.
- Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube) and invite friends and other colleagues too!
- Talk to colleagues about the Riders Collective! Pass on our flyers or stickers!
- Be part of it! The Riders Collective is a diverse community of people from different backgrounds and talents. Let's get to know each other, talk about the world and life, or just spend quality time together, and see how we can support each other in our respective life situations. This not only strengthens our cohesion, but also makes our individual lives easier. For this purpose, we also organize meetings, zoom calls and events every now and then.
- Give us feedback! Do you like what we do, and if not, what is missing or why don't you like it? Contact us!
- Get involved:
- Do you like creating social media posts, like @mjammemes or @lieferandoman on Instagram, or do you avoid social media but always find and take pictures of parts worth sharing while you're working, send it to us so we can share it!
- Share a snapshot of your life as a rider and enrich our Riders Stories.
- Translate and share the most important content for colleagues who don't understand German or English well. If you speak e.g. Russian, Arabic, Greek, Farsi, Urdu or other languages, this would be a great help to reach these colleagues.
- Do you have new perspectives that you would like to bring to the Riders Collective that affect many of our colleagues but have not yet been sufficiently addressed by us?
- Do you want to help out at events and gatherings, be it alleycats or demo actions, soccer games, barbecues or international conferences, there are also many opportunities to help out.
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