▲ Aspect of the mobilization of delivery drivers through digital application, yesterday.Photo Roberto García Ortiz
Jessica Xantomila and Jared Laureles
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, October 31, 2024, p. 16
Delivery workers from digital platforms demonstrated yesterday outside the Chamber of Deputies to demand that a dual scheme be incorporated into the reform initiative on their labor rights, which guarantees the recognition of workers who do not want to subordinate to companies
in order for them to continue working independently.
The protesters arrived in San Lázaro shortly before 12 noon and a commission was received by Arturo Ávila, spokesperson for the Morena group, and Maiella Gómez, president of the Labor and Social Security Commission.
At the meeting they agreed to maintain the dialogue, since the bill has not yet reached this chamber and the Labor and Social Welfare Commission, scheduled for next week, has not been installed.
Saúl Gómez, founder of Ni un Repartidor Menos and member of Repartidors Unidos de México, explained that they delivered a request document, whose main point It is that they listen to us to integrate a dual model: whoever wants social security, go ahead; and whoever doesn’t want it, should continue working as before.
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He emphasized that another demand is that unions not get involved. We do not want there to be people who mediate for us, with the little or much we earn and who become rich with it.
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He also regretted that after the presentation of the reform initiative they have not taken us into account
for your settings.
In the document, the delivery drivers warned: We don’t want shifts, mandatory workplaces, reduced income, more taxes, no bosses, no unions
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They also demanded to be received by the head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, Marath Bolaños.
Partners, not employees
In Monterrey, Nuevo León, Didi and Uber delivery workers and drivers demonstrated in the center, where they refused to establish a traditional employment relationship with these platforms, which would mean losing the flexibility they offer them.
My car, my schedule, I don’t want a salary
chanted the protesters, who marched from the Pavilion M shopping center to the government palace.
They assured that they prefer to be considered partners
drivers and delivery people of digital applications, not as employees, and demanded that work tables be held with the aim of discussing the proposed law that aims to regularize digital platform workers.
With information from Raúl Robledo, correspondent
