Bike delivery group calls for strike next week, urging customers not to order

The bicycle couriers of several meal delivery platforms are expected to strike a week from Sunday. They claim
better pay and working conditions. At the initiative of this movement, "platform workers" Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Stuart, Glovo and Foodora also call on all customers to "not order the week of July 8 to 15."

"It is now It's essential to reverse the balance of power, "says CLAP, a group of Parisian deliverers. Before recalling that it is "one of the most profitable weeks for platforms", with the World Cup.

The initiators of the mobilization claim "a guaranteed minimum hourly rate" by their contract, "The taking into account of the hardness of work via various bonuses (rain, weekend, night …)", as well as "ranges of work and activity" guaranteed.

Sunday, July 8: First round of delivery men in strike! pic.twitter.com/ReHfhS3vVx

– CLAP (@ _CLAP75) July 4, 2018

An amendment supported by Penicaud

"Indeed, for several months we have seen our compensation decrease and delivery distances increase, "they write. "The allocation of orders" or "places on the schedule" is, according to them, "more and more uncertain" because of the recruitment of new deliverers.

They also consider "unbearable" the "participation of the government (…) the perpetuation "of a" system operating on the precariousness of its workers ", via an amendment to the bill" professional future. "

This amendment, supported by the Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud, introduces the possibility for a platform to establish a "charter". It defines "its rights and obligations as well as those of the workers with whom it is in contact"

Dependency and precariousness

The text specifies that such a charter can not "characterize the existence of a link of legal subordination between the platform and the worker ", which rules out for the platform the risk of a re-qualification into employees of its workers, considered as independent.

Such a charter," decided unilaterally and without any counterpart "Platforms," ​​can only instill the dependence and precariousness "of the workers in question, underline the organizers of the mobilization.

They call for a rally Sunday at 19 o'clock place of the Republic in Paris.

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