Abstract
This paper refers to the exercise of the rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining of platform workers, focusing on a number of important experiences of their collective organization around the world, as well as the very nature of such rights as human rights. I contend that the changing context of work has prompted changes in modern workplaces, which in turn, inter alia, have generated a novel interest on the need to adopt a human rights-based approach regarding labour protection. This approach identifies workers, regardless their employment status, as rights-holders that are entitled to rights, like the right to collective bargaining, derived from international human rights instruments.