Platform workers: very low participation in first elections of representatives

Only 1.83 % of delivery people and 3.91 % of VTC drivers participated in the first elections of representatives of workers independent of platforms.

Le Monde with AFP

Only 1.83 % of delivery people and 3.91 % of VTC drivers participated in the first elections of representatives of the workers of platforms, won by an organization, the National Federation of Auto Entrepreneurs and Microentrepreneurs (FNAE), perceived As being close to employers, announced, Monday, May 16, the association of independent platforms (API).

“Participation was not completely up to the challenges”, recognizes in a press release the API, which specifies that “this observation must take into account the unprecedented nature of this innovative process, a first in Europe, which concerns self -employed self -employed “.

According to the API, which joins the official and complete results provided by the Authority for Social Relations of the Plate-Employment (ARPE), a public organization created to organize this ballot, FNAE came first at the Delivers with 390 votes out of 1,547 expressed (or 28.45 % of the vote). In all, 84,243 people had been authorized to vote.

The CGT (27.26 %), Union-Independants (22.32 %), whose CFDT is a founding member, and South-Commerces (5.69 %) are the other three organizations to exceed the 5 threshold %, essential to be deemed representative and benefit from three representatives, who will be elected for an initial period of two years. The CFTC, the CNT-SO, FO, UNSA and the National Federation of Road Transport (FNTR) are eliminated.

social dialogue currently nonexistent

Among the VTCs, the Association of VTCs in France came first with 610 votes out of 1,541 expressed (42.81 %), for 39,314 people who had been authorized to vote. The seven candidate organizations of this college are on the other hand all representative: Union-independent (11.51 %), the association of independent Lyonnais drivers (ACIL), with 11.44 %of the votes, FO (9.19 %), FNAE (8.98 %), CFTC (8.84 %) and UNSA (7.23 %) complete the classification.

This ballot, which took place from May 9 to 16, is the first step in the construction of social dialogue, which is currently nonexistent, in the separate sector collaborating with Uber or Delivero-type platforms. The election must allow the professionals concerned to acquire new rights and obtain improvements in their working conditions, “while respecting the status of independent, to which most of them are attached,” said the Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne.

Elected representatives may in particular conclude with the platforms of the agreements on remuneration, occupational health or vocational training.

/Media reports.