Jared Laureles and Jessica Xantomila
La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, July 27, 2025, p. 4
After it was announced that motorcycle transport is prohibited through application, after an accident on Paseo de la Reforma Avenue left by a deceased woman, collective distributors demanded that companies that assume their responsibility and define security protocols for all services that are provided through their platforms.
Sergio Guerrero, leader of the National Union of Workers by Application (UNTA), said that now that the employment relationship with the people used by applications was formalized, the issue must be addressed in a tripartite manner, where government and companies create security standards.
This would imply that companies get much more involved, which I do not know if they are willing to do, even to save that transport model
he said.
In an interview, he pointed out that the insurance offered by the platforms, before the labor reform, only covered damage to third parties and the driver’s medical care, in case of an accident, while the policies that hire the distributors are exclusively for Moto, because we did not transport people
.
To the above is added that companies are not those provided by security equipment to users, such as helmets, but the delivery man. Everything falls within our scope of responsibility
he reproached.
Guerrero mentioned that this transport model offered in Uber or Didi also operates in other parts of the country, such as Campeche, Monterrey, State of Mexico, Puebla and Guadalajara, in addition to Mexico City, where He was barely starting to position himself
. This, because among the platform workers, insecurity prevailed with respect to whether or not they would be supported by companies.
This fear was on the part of the colleagues if the company will not support me or defend me, because it has always behaved with us talking about food, now imagine in the case of people!
he said.
Prohibition of Mototaxis It will climb Black Market
On the other hand, Saúl Gómez, representative of Ni Distributor less, supported the regulation of the transport model, but not a prohibition from the legal-administrative actions
announced by the Ministry of Capital Mobility, because that will increase the black market
of this service, which is already offered even in social networks in mayors such as Iztacalco, Iztapalapa and Tláhuac.
He agreed that most motorcycle accidents are caused by poor road infrastructure
as lack of signaling, traffic lights and potholes. In addition, he stressed, the accidents are only classified as collision or skid.
For this reason, since November 2018 to date, at least 665 workers from different applications have died in Mexico City, and of the total, more than 40 percent have been due to the bad conditions of the streets, said the spokesman of the organization.
