About fifty food delivery men, according to the latter, thirty according to the police, went on strike this Wednesday evening in Saint-Etienne to disrupt the delivery of meals by the digital platforms that employ them, AFP noted. .
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A symbolic gathering was planned in front of the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium, on the occasion of the Ligue 1 Uber Eats meeting between AS Saint-Etienne and Paris Saint-Germain (of which the competing platform Deliveroo is the premium sponsor).
The organizers wanted to
"remind us that the platforms have the means to spend millions on sponsorship, but not to pay us with dignity"
.
Most, however, gave up gathering in front of the "Cauldron" after being threatened with verbalization by the police, we learned from corroborating sources.
"We tried, but it was completely covered by the police"
, said a delivery man named Pierre.
About thirty delivery people met shortly before 7 p.m. near a shopping center in the center of Saint-Etienne, the police said.
Scheduled meeting with Uber Eats
"Thanks to covid, the turnover of platforms increases because they take new customers, but they still lower our remuneration,"
lamented Junior, who participated in the screening of delivery people at the entrance of a Burger King restaurant.
"We will maintain the pressure as a meeting scheduled for next week with the national management of Uber Eats" approaches
, several representatives of the protest movement from Saint-Etienne told AFP this Wednesday evening denouncing degraded working conditions. .
The stated objective of the negotiations they want to initiate with Uber Eats, and other platforms such as Deliveroo, concerns demands such as "
regularization of recruitments, guaranteed minimum hourly remuneration, increase in delivery rates, end of the notation, more accurate disconnection protocol ”
.
