2024-01-11 15:13:32
VTC drivers plan to carry out a snail operation in downtown Paris. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
Several hundred VTC drivers have planned to organize a snail operation, from 1 p.m., risking causing significant slowdowns between Porte Maillot and City Hall.
Snail operation in downtown Paris. Deploring being excluded from the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and viscerally opposed to the increase in their numerus clausus, VTC drivers decided to bang their fists on the table this Thursday, in order to demonstrate their discontent. From 1 p.m., they planned to invade, not the ring road like last December 14, but the particularly busy Parisian hypercenter. What symbolizes their dissatisfaction at being excluded from the “Olympic way» of the ring road, this left lane reserved for athletes, accredited people and taxis during the 2024 Olympics, but from which VTCs will be excluded. An axis which must then remain as a legacy after the Games, as the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo hopes.
Choices that do not please the main organizations representing VTC drivers, who feel sidelined, and regret not participating in the discussions. “This reignites the animosity that existed between taxis and VTCs», deplores Arnaud Desmit, the general secretary of the French VTC Association (AVF) at the origin of this gathering. “From what we see, there is no question of letting VTCs participate in the event, we are neither present in the brochures nor in the advertisements, but I fail to see how they can do without us during the Olympics“, he emphasizes, explaining that he feels “to be kept away from home».
Long-standing demands
In a press release published onwe are launching national mobilizations to defend the rights of VTC drivers» et «we demand a fair numerus clausus”, “the end of the exclusion of VTCs from the Olympics” or “support for the European directive for platform workers“. For several weeks, the INV has deplored “the unprecedented deterioration of their working conditions».
«VTCs, crushed by insurmountable debts, find themselves trapped on several fronts, including exclusion from limited traffic areas and Olympic venues», We could already read in mid-December. An exacerbated situation according to representatives of the profession “by the arrival of more than 60,000 new drivers, often part-time, and the proliferation of mafia networks fraudulently exploiting the profession of driver».
Faced with this situation, they demand in particular “the dissolution of the ARPE (Authority for social relations of employment platforms)”, whose actions according to them favor “platforms to the detriment of workers“. They also wish to warn the general public of their wish to “intensifier” their “nationwide punch actions», «determined to denounce our exclusion from the Olympics» which they describe as “Shame games” as well as “the many scandals that taint them».
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