The Trade Union of Digital Platform Workers (OZ PDP) was registered on 27 August 2026 in Bratislava. It brings together people who work through digital platforms, and their primary organisations.

The union is independent of political parties, state bodies, platform operators, employers and clients. It is a legal entity in its own right.

Who can join

Anyone who does platform work may join, whatever their relationship with the digital labour platform or with an intermediary. That includes an employee, a worker on an agreement, a sole trader and a single-member s.r.o. Membership is voluntary. Profession, sex, nationality, religion, citizenship and political affiliation do not matter.

People join only through a primary organisation. Direct membership is exceptional: the union presidency considers it.

The union usually sets up primary organisations in the regional centres of Slovakia. If other trade unions of digital platform workers are formed, the union will welcome them as members.

Our principles

The union, its bodies, the primary organisations and their bodies fully respect a member’s free choice. They do not press for an automatic or forced move from self-employment into an employment contract.

Platform work is done not only by citizens of the Slovak Republic, but also by citizens of other countries. The union therefore has two equal co-presidents: one a citizen of the Slovak Republic, the other a foreign national. Both act for the whole union.

Decisions in the union are taken democratically. A member may take part in union life and speak on important questions.

Main aims

• To protect members’ social and economic rights and to defend their legitimate interests before digital labour platforms and intermediaries, and before state institutions.
• Fair and transparent algorithms, clear pay and fair treatment by platform operators.
• To support primary organisations and the founding of new ones, especially in regional centres.