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The workers of the delivery company Glovo protested, for the second day in a row, in front of the main headquarters that the company has in Barcelona, ​​Spain, in protest at the death of a dead deliveryman this Saturday who had made a delivery by bike. "We regret the death of #Glovo Barcelona worker who was hit by a truck yesterday," said the staff platform badociation in Argentina. "We have already said: platforms must ensure the protection of their workers, who risk their lives to earn a living," insisted the union, which also had to deplore on April 12 last the death of one worker. Rappi Argentina who died in similar circumstances: struck by a truck while he was cycling, he reached an agreement.

The young man who lost his life in central Barcelona this weekend was a 22-year-old Nepali. According to his companions, the accident occurred on Saturday night at the intersection of Balmes street and Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, when the cyclist was hit by a truck that lifted the trash. "We are not saying that Glovo has killed this boy, but his extreme working conditions make things go that way," said Badr Eddine, president of a home delivery badociation.

The yellow backpacks characteristic of Glovo, during the protest days called Sunday and Monday by the collective Riders for Rights, burned in the flames on the initiative of some of the protesters who decided to burn them in repudiation of the death of their partner. Other agents chose to remember the cyclist who had placed candles and laid flowers on the company's door. Some also threw eggs against the seat window, which was closed by "mourning".

The company issued a statement in which it deplored "deeply" the death of the deliveryman "in a traffic accident". But the workers said in response to this badertion that the company required them to register as "self-employed", even if they were completely at their disposal, and then imposed impossible goals. "They want us to be their slaves," lamented a Pakistani delivery man who did not want to reveal his name to avoid retaliation.

"In order to reach a goal, you have to juggle, because otherwise the system they created with the help of algorithms penalizes you, subtracts hours of work and income," denounced Eddine. , president of the badociation of distributors.

Depending on the scores obtained from users in each service and the time spent on delivery, the company grants them more or less hours of work. The Pakistani worker who did not want to reveal his identity, for example, has a score of 97 out of 100 and, as he explains, as "it's very low for them", they do not attribute to him only three hours a day of distribution.

"You can make thirty perfect deliveries but if you fail in one, you are already screwed," said another delivery man, of Brazilian origin, who works only one hour a day because his score is 93/100. The worker was operated Friday, but continues his service: "If I stop working, they penalize me," he lamented.

On April 12, in the city of Buenos Aires, distribution applications have already made a first victim. On that Friday, Ramiro Cayola Camacho, a 20-year-old Bolivian boy, was crossing the Retiro area with the Rappi box on his back when a truck crushed him and killed him instantly.