CC OO threatens mobilizations in Glovo as a consequence of suspicions of covert EREs and anti-union practices | Economy | EUROtoday

Extreme hostility and democratic sabotage. This is how the scenario skilled by CC OO union officers on the Glovo platform and different platform staff have been outlined this Friday, in retaliation for union processes opened in a number of provinces in Spain to elect staff’ representatives. A couple of days after the Italian justice system intervened the administration of Glovo for exploiting its staff, they’ve accused the corporate in Spain of “persecuting” the employees immersed in these processes, sanctioning them and even firing them.

In addition, the union has denounced this Friday the existence of a potential covert ERE, given the each day and weekly layoffs which can be occurring on the platform all through Spain. In this circumstance, union officers have warned the corporate that if these “anti-union practices” don’t cease and if they don’t sit down to barter enhancements in working situations, they are going to start a “national calendar” of mobilizations “at the state level.”

“There are arbitrary dismissals of candidates every day and week,” as quickly because the union election course of begins, the pinnacle of the union’s New Work Realities, Carlos Sola, denounced this Friday. The union has already appealed a number of disciplinary dismissals for alleged non-compliance by candidates, decided by the “arbitrary, biased and opaque” algorithm, which regulates the work selections of Glovo supply drivers, they’ve denounced. But the layoffs go additional; As an instance, they’ve cited the case of Navarra, the primary province to determine a works council: in December they dismissed 45 staff from a workforce of between 200 and 250 staff, which might characterize round 20% of the workforce (an ERE have to be activated with the dismissal of 10% of the workforce).

Added to that is that they denounce practices by the corporate, such because the systematic problem of electoral notices, the failure to adjust to the corporate’s obligations in these processes, corresponding to sending employee censuses or not convening polling stations, which blocks the holding of the elections.

For this motive, the president of the Glovo firm committee in Navarra, Pablo Díaz, despatched a message this Friday to the administrators of Glovo: “If the company does not respect the legally constituted and democratically elected committees and if they do not agree to negotiate with us our demands, we are going to begin the coordination of mobilizations at the state level.” Although Díaz is the one consultant from the committee who has already had a number of negotiations with the corporate, he has assured that it has already modified and adopted an “avoidant attitude” to not meet with the employees.

Therefore, he added that “the deadlines for starting to organize mobilizations will depend on the company’s response. We are going to continue betting on sitting at a table and continuing to negotiate. But we understand that the change in strategy to organizing mobilizations that have a state impact will depend on the feed back of the company”. And he has issued one other warning to these liable for the platform: “We are very articulate and the company must begin to respect it and take it seriously.”

The union attributes the battle to the truth that CC OO “has stood up” to the precariousness technique practiced by Glovo, even if the platform has been compelled to rent the whole workforce, which was made up of 14,000 false self-employed staff, as workers. Thus, for a number of months now, this union has been selling the holding of union elections all through Spain and has already emerged because the union with probably the most votes in six of the ten provinces the place these processes have already been held, and the place they’ve obtained 51 delegates of the 79 which were elected.