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VIDEO. “Uber made a purge”: delivery people angry after the deletion of 2,500 accounts

2022-09-12T16:39:26.132Z


About 500 Uber delivery workers, many of them undocumented, gathered outside the company's French headquarters in Paris on Monday to protest


“In winter, in summer, when it rains, we are there.

During the Covid too ”, plague Nassime.

This undocumented delivery man has been working for the Uber Eat app for two years.

But for two months, his account was deleted "overnight".

The 30-year-old has since struggled to make ends meet.

“It is with this job that I pay the rent, that I feed my family,” he explains.

He's not the only one in this situation.

In a few weeks, of the 6,000 active accounts in France, Uber deleted 2,500, deemed “fraudulent”.

Read alsoUber Eats disconnected 2,500 fraudulent delivery accounts

In the first half, “we conducted a thorough audit of delivery accounts using Uber Eats.

We have thus identified fraudulent uses of our application and have taken action by deactivating these accounts while setting up an appeal procedure which suspended deliverers can resort to, ”said a spokesperson for the platform, who has nearly 60,000 active deliverers in France.

Some of these false deliverers are indeed suspected of subletting their accounts to precarious workers.

This Monday, around 500 delivery men marched through the streets of Paris to the headquarters of Uber France in the 3rd arrondissement of the capital to protest against this situation.

This is "the biggest demonstration of delivery people in Europe", declared in front of the demonstrators Jérôme Pimot, spokesperson for the Collective of Autonomous Delivery People of Paris (CLAP), calling on delivery people to organize peaceful blockages in front of restaurants soon. app partners.

Source: leparis

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