About 500 people demonstrated on Monday against the American firm Uber Eats. They denounce the disconnection of around 2,500 delivery accounts.
” The delivery men, angry », « Uber, thief ” or ” justice for the delivery men “, chanted the hundreds of demonstrators who protested against Uber Eats after the disconnection of 2,500 accounts of workers identified as “ fraudulent “.
These accounts were disconnected overnight, the deliverers are indignant. This is the case of Adama. Arrived from Côte d’Ivoire four years ago, he got on his bike and has been working for the American home delivery firm since his arrival in France. But last week, a short message popped up on her phone app: You cannot go online because one of your documents is fraudulent. »
Since then, he can no longer work, and that exasperates him. ” We worked throughout the health crisis with accounts that Uber Eats had validated. They accepted. It’s true, we are undocumented, but all of France knows what the delivery men have done for this country. Can you imagine? You work for someone for two or three years and overnight, without explanation or justification, he kicks you out “, plague the man.
“We only have that to be able to support our family”
A little further in the procession, Aboubacar also finds himself out of work. He is asking for regularization. ” We decided to leave the estates because there is nothing there. There are only drugs. We don’t want that, we just want to work legally. We only have that to be able to support our family and feed us “, he testifies.
For its part, Uber Eats recalls having set up an identification system three years ago to control delivery people. According to the firm, these numerous deactivations are the consequence of an audit carried out after the signing of a “charter” with the government in order to fight against the irregular subletting of delivery accounts. Uber said it reactivated 3.8% of disconnected accounts after reviewing some specific cases.
The delivery people denounce the hypocrisy of the Uber Eats platform and say they are ready to go to court.
We only have our tears to cry. What Uber Eats is doing to us is illegal.
Hamidou, an angry delivery man