The Glovo delivery drivers say enough and will go on strike for three days

BarcelonaWith layoffs on the horizon, Glovo workers have had enough. Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), the union with the most representation in the Catalan company, has announced the call for a strike for three days, from Friday, April 24 to Sunday, April 26, to demand "dignified conditions" for the delivery drivers.

It will be the first strike in this company, both at a national and international level, and it comes shortly after it announced the opening of a collective redundancy procedure (ERO) that will affect 750 workers throughout Spain. The company, integrated into the German giant Delivery Hero, will reduce its service in more than 60 locations to avoid closure. In Spain, Glovo has 21,000 delivery drivers, both directly hired and through third-party companies.

CCOO calls for a strike in the face of "labor abuse" that it denounces has led to the transition to a salaried model after the approval of the "rider law", which forced Glovo to stop operating with false self-employed workers. The organization has explained that for months it has been trying to negotiate to improve the working conditions of employees, despite the fact that the company is pushing the workforce "to the limit." To reverse the situation, the union demands that it stop applying a sanctioning regime that it considers "illegal," with "an incessant trickle of disciplinary dismissals without guarantees," as well as renouncing the collective dismissal and negotiating a collective agreement.