2023-11-07 00:02:32
An Uber Eats delivery man on Place Massena in Nice, January 26, 2021. ERIC GAILLARD / REUTERS
“Last week, I worked 63 hours for 143 euros gross, over 25 races”. Bastien, a bicycle courier for Uber Eats in the Armentières region (North), is not losing his temper. For Kylian, who earns a better living in the Lens and Béthune region, the observation is similar. “At night, I earned between 8 and 15 euros an hour. With the new rules, we fell between 5 and 9. I have completely changed my work rhythm to limit damage, I get up at 8 a.m. when before I went to bed at 5 a.m. » Fabian Tosolini, national delegate of Union-Indépendants (affiliated with the CFDT), also relays figures “indecent” : “Prices are falling between 10 and 40% compared to 2019. This goes as far as three-kilometer races yesterday at 5.50 euros, and today at 3 euros! »
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From October 10, the company Uber Eats has gradually implemented a new pricing model for its 65,000 delivery people, which now applies to the entire territory. The North being one of the first territories concerned, it saw certain delivery men mobilize spontaneously after noticing a drop in their remuneration, as in Armentières.
Faced with this situation, the CGT-deliverers called for “mobilize” the weekend of November 3 to 5. His secretary, Ludovic Rioux, did not only want to call for a strike: “It’s complicated to structure over time, the level of precariousness being so high… But many cities have mobilized: Epinal, Bordeaux, Mâcon, a big strike in Montpellier on Sunday…”
Six agreements signed
The anger is palpable because this update comes in parallel with the emergence of a social dialogue, supposed to improve the working conditions of platform workers (bicycle delivery drivers and VTC drivers), these self-employed workers paid on a per-service basis. , regulating their own charges, but dependent on the decisions of the platforms. To resolve these problems, the Employment Platforms Social Relations Authority (ARPE), a tailor-made public establishment, was born in 2021.
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She gave birth to six chords. In January 2023, for VTCs, a minimum income per trip was set at 7.65 euros net on all applications. In the spring, the Association of Independent Platforms (API), the only employers’ organization, and the National Federation of Autoentrepreneurs (FNAE), the largest of the four organizations representing bicycle delivery workers, signed an agreement promising a minimum wage hourly rate of 11.75 euros gross for couriers, knowing that they are only paid for the order time. This guarantee does not concern the price of each trip, it is an average calculated at the end of the month: if a delivery person is below, he is theoretically entitled to a supplement. “That’s 19 cents per minute of service excluding taxes, not including the time between two orders. It’s ridiculous, because before that, we often averaged 15-16 euros per hour.”considers Leila Ouadah, Deliveroo delivery driver in Mulhouse, who sits for Sud Solidaires at the ARPE.
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