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Uber, Deliveroo ... how unions are trying to rebuild their lives with platform workers

2020-11-30T23:48:56.290Z


The explosion of microenterprises has created a category of assets, with priorities different from those of employees, which the CFDT, FO and even Unsa seek to represent. A prey for the future ...


There are more and more of them.

But their particular status - neither fully salaried, nor completely independent - as well as the multitude of activities they can carry out make platform workers a still very poorly organized asset category.


A real challenge for the central trade unions which, in recent years, have been trying to find a way to attract these three and a half million new workers to their ranks.

Without much success.

Read also: The cooperative track as the ideal status for Uber drivers ...

For the moment, drivers, bicycle delivery men and other sports coaches tend to come together in groups to try to defend their interests.

This is what we saw for example during the VTC demonstrations in 2018. The unions tried to join the movement but it did not work.

These workers often consider that trade unions are too institutional and politicized, too far from the issues of proximity and their demands

”, analyzes Frédéric Guzy, Managing Director

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Source: lefigaro

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