After the Covid-19, the heat wave once again puts delivery people on bicycles, in the front line, to bring meals to homes. But, Friday July 15 ” in the evening “, the CGT, the second union behind FO, calls on the employees of the Just Eat platform to strike in ten cities. The inadequacy of the measures to protect delivery people in the face of this high heat is only part of the reasons for the dissatisfaction of the union, which also has wage and employment demands.
As during the first episode of heat wave in June, the management of Just Eat indicates in a press release, having asked its order distributors located in Amsterdam, where the group’s headquarters are located, “to be flexible with break times and to accept requests to shorten shifts if necessary [période de livraison] ». Clear“it’s up to the customer”, denounces Ludovic Rioux, CGT union representative. Anyway, “there is no communication on these measures”, deplores Jérémy Graça, FO union representative. Management has planned a “closing threshold” service in cities where the temperature reaches 38°C.
Negotiations “not worthy” of a large group
But it is above all the ongoing negotiations that concern the unions, starting with the job protection plan (PSE) aimed at the dismissal of 300 employees out of 800, including 269 delivery workers, a year and a half after hiring them. The unions do not appreciate the postponement of the last negotiation meetings which were to take place on July 11.
Two themes are on the agenda: wages and the PSE, with the closure of Just Eat in twenty cities. “The discussions on the PES are not progressing, deplores Mr. Rioux. The management still refuses to give us essential information that it is obliged to provide us such as the financial flows between the subsidiaries and the Just Eat Takeaway group and the orders by city. » For Mr. Graça, who does not call for a strike, “because the negotiations are not over”, these last “are not satisfactory, not worthy” of a large group. Just State proposed, indicates Mr. Garça, “training for around 3,000 euros per person and a six-month redeployment leave is too little”.
However, the CGT notes “positive elements” such as management’s proposal to put an end to the annualisation of working time or even the reduction, in the event of sick leave, of the number of waiting days to three days instead of seven, but only for employees who are one year old. On the other hand, there would also be proposals judged “regressive” by the CGT, such as increasing the maximum weight of the bag to 10 kg instead of the current 5 kg. Asked, the management could not answer us, its press service indicating that it had not found “no one available (…) on this long weekend.