The first union of “two-wheel delivery companies in Paris” was created this Saturday to defend independent platform workers and endow them with “power of action”, one of its representatives announced on Saturday. .
This union, affiliated to the CGT, aims to “bring together delivery people from different platforms to be representative and make our voice heard,” said Mandjou Karaboue, elected general secretary on Saturday and himself delivery man. “More than demands, we will now have the power to act to enforce the law,” he continued.
Accidents and racism
Among the priority actions of this structure, Mandjou Karaboue cited “the taking into account of work accidents, daily life of two-wheeled deliverers”, and “the fight against racism that may be suffered from some customers”. Some 70 delivery people from different platforms (Uber Eats, Frichti, Deliveroo…) took part in its founding congress on Saturday morning in Paris, according to Ludovic Rioux of the CGT national collective of delivery people, on which this union will depend.
This is the eighth local structure specific to the defense of two-wheeled platform deliverers, already created in particular in Bordeaux, Toulouse and Lyon. Its ambition is “to organize the work of delivery men at the local level, to improve their working conditions, and to work for the regularization of undocumented migrants”, very numerous among these two-wheeled couriers, a highly precarious sector. , argued Ludovic Rioux.
A union “the opposite of employers’ policies to destroy social gains”
In a press release, the delivery men from Paris underlined their “desire to organize themselves for the conquest of new rights, as opposed to the employers’ policies of breaking social conquered which they are paying the price: misappropriation of the status of employee, fraud to social contributions, hidden work ”.
Last week, around fifty couriers, mostly black, gathered at Place de la République at the call of the Collective of independent Parisian delivery people of platforms (Clap) to denounce discrimination and say “stop insults, attacks, racism, contempt, devaluation ”.