[jakehop]

In Denmark, our deliveries are currently not unionized, although there is a large debate around it. Denmark has no minimum wage either.

The people doing the deliveries for e.g. Wolt earn at minimum of 120 DKK an hour (~18,5 USD) on a scheduled shift and can often earn more, depending on how much they are willing to work. The last average I read is around 150DKK an hour (~23,30 USD) for delivery personel in that company.

The main issue with unionizing in Denmark is that it would require the companies to sign the delivery people to fixed-hour contracts (think nine-to-five), which doesn't work with the business model and isn't what most of the delivery people have expressed their wants about. Most of them enjoy the freedom and many in creative industries (e.g. musicians) use it as a way to supplement their income.

I think it is important to recognize what unionization actually means and whether or not that solves the problem, and before that; figure out what the actual problem really is.

[crooked-v]

> The main issue with unionizing in Denmark is that it would require the companies to sign the delivery people to fixed-hour contracts

That seems like a conflation of two entirely different things. Plenty of unions represent people who work intermittently or weird hours, like basically every union related to film production.

[jakehop]

Possibly, but this is the situation we're faced with here in Denmark, as our cartel of unions have divided the market in such a way.

I agree that this is not necessarily what "unionization" means specificly, but this is the concrete case here, and thus my caveat as to the importance of the exact definition.

[Galaxeblaffer]

Also foreigners who wants to study and get SU (State Study Support around 900 EUR/month, and yes, you basically get payed to study) use this to get what's called "equal status" which qualifies them for the SU and probably other benefits as well.

[jakehop]

Thank you, great point.

(Also, I am thankful that you are descripting the SU correctly; one gets paid to be enrolled at a qualifying educational institution - paid to study, not paid to get an education, even though this is luckily what happens most of the time.)