Europe 1 with AFP 3:48 p.m., December 31, 2021
The CGT of the Just Eat meal delivery company called for walkouts on Friday evening for a "delivery man's eve", in Paris and Lyon in particular, in order to demand an improvement in wages and working conditions.
The union denounces in particular "low wages caught up by the minimum wage on October 1".
The CGT of the Just Eat meal delivery company called for walkouts on Friday evening for a "delivery man's eve", in Paris and Lyon in particular, in order to demand an improvement in wages and working conditions.
Ludovic Rioux, secretary of the CGT for bicycle delivery people in Lyon, denounces an "extremely high turnover, low wages caught up by the minimum wage on October 1" and insufficient support for equipment by the company.
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The company must provide the bicycles, believes the CGT
Delivery people "must participate in the rental or use their personal bike, while the company should provide their work tool," he said to AFP.
Another point of tension: the company recently put an end to the "zoning" system for the 500 Parisian delivery men.
They can therefore now be required to deliver to customers at the other end of the capital.
"The work is becoming more physical, with an increase in delays and lower quality services," recalls Ludovic Rioux.
Outside the big cities, delivery people don't always have a place to rest and warm up, he adds.
No blocking on all orders
The deliverers mobilized Friday will not block orders all evening, but hope to put a "blow of pressure" on their company on this symbolic date of December 31.
Asked by AFP, the management of Just Eat had not responded at midday.
At the start of 2021, the Anglo-Dutch group announced the recruitment of 4,500 deliverers on permanent contracts over the year in France, an unprecedented decision in a sector where the majority of platforms (Deliveroo, Uber Eats) use freelancers.
Improving working conditions
After a year, "only a thousand of them are still there", laments Ludovic Rioux, who evokes a "marketing argument".
Favorable to wage earners but skeptical of the "announcement effects", the CGT regrets that this change was not accompanied by a real improvement in working conditions.
The FO union has not planned to mobilize Friday evening, even if most of its demands converge with those of the CGT.
"We already have a movement in preparation for the next few days, for all delivery people who suffer unfair dismissals, for our working conditions and against cases of harassment," said Jérémy Graça, FO union representative at Just Eat.