The base union for bike and motorcycle workers (S.V.E.O.D) was established in the spring of 2007. Any employee who uses a bike or motorbike for their job (couriers/delivery/ outside workers) can become a member of S.V.E.O.D. Through the union we struggle to improve our working conditions and our lives in general. Since we all share…
Open call To all our members and colleagues To all the people that support our struggles and get inspired by them, that smile when they see our motorbike demos, that feel victorious for every single one of our victories, that embrace Base Syndicalism To our class After 15 years of existence our union is now…
Athens, 12 August 2022 Statement of the Union of Efood’s Workers (Athens) on the recurring work accidents of efood’s colleagues Recently we have all witnessed work accidents that led to the death or serious injury of colleagues. In the never ending list of these daily horrors, there are some things in common. The majority of…
The mobilization of our colleagues of foodpanda (brand of Delivery Hero in Myanmar) that started on the 6th of June, goes on. Their basic demands are the following: To set the minimum delivery fee to 670 kyats ($ 0.36) per delivery and increase the fee depending on the distance of the delivery and the batch…
Dear colleagues of efood in Greece, It has now been 17 days since we, foodpanda (Myanmar) riders, have begun the strike (work stoppage) against foodpanda (Myanmar) for our labour rights on June 6th, 2022. During the first week of the strike, we launched blackcross campaign (i.e. a campaign that raises awareness about the exploitation…
Introduction – The struggles of the riders in Myanmar On 16th of March 2022, the management of Foodpanda, subsidiary of Delivery Hero in Myanmar, announced huge cuts in wages, decreasing the minimum guaranteed payment per delivery. The riders reacted immediately, they logged off their app’s accounts and through direct-democratic processes they self-organized their resistance and…
On Tuesday 17/05, with a sudden announcement the company unilaterally changed the way workers with 4-hours contracts can choose their shifts. While until now workers were choosing in which hours they wanted to work, with the new system they will only be allowed to choose the days in which they are not available, the same…
The Greek Police at the service of the Government and of the General Postal Service (Γενική Ταχυδρομική) Today during an action organized by our union S.V.E.O.D. together with the General Postal Service Worker’s Collective, at the store in Leof. Mesogheion 201 street, the police decided to implement the law Chatzidaki (n. 4808/21) for the “protection”…
On March 13, 2022 our union participated in a public meeting in Turin organized by the collective Rider In Lotta Torino with theme: “Un confronto sui cambiamenti, le lotte e le pratiche nel food delivery per resistere a nuove forme di sfruttamento” – “A dialogue on changes, struggles and practices in food delivery to resist…
Paving the road for the First International Bike and Motorcycle Riders’ Strike. …and if there is no road, our common struggle will open the way… One hundred and thirty‐six years have passed since Chicago in 1886 and the demand for a stable job with decent working conditions and a salary that meets our real needs…
Our union’s viewpoint on the European Parliament legislative initiative on fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers – new forms of employment linked to digital development (2019/2186 (INI)). With the action plan for the European Social Rights Pillar, the European Commission has announced that by the end of 2021, it will present…
