VIDEO. Removal of Uber Eats deliverers: "All we want is to work"

“Uber!

Thief !

Perched on the back of a scooter, Kevin chants the slogan without stopping.

After a first demonstration, on September 12, in front of the headquarters of Uber, the delivery men again mobilized.

In August, the platform had responded to the request for regularization from these users, from the government: 2,500 accounts were suspended, designated as “fraudulent”.

This is the case with Kevin's.

This 28-year-old Senegalese had been renting the account of a user with French nationality for 3 years.

“I rented it for 150 euros a week.

until their account is suspended.

From one day to the next, he finds himself without resources.

A complicated situation for the father of a 4-month-old infant, who is the only one to support his family.

So today, he demonstrates hoping that things will change.

“All we want is to work.

Quite simply.

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This situation is not new.

From the start, many undocumented migrants have delivered on Uber Eats.

“Besides, Uber knows this well and it was very useful for them during the Covid” launches Jérôme Pimot, spokesperson for the Collectif des Livreurs Autonomes de Paris (CLAP).

Today these workers want to be able to work and want to obtain a pay slip from Uber, in order to be able to present them when applying for a residence permit.

The first step towards regularization.