Lieferando strike? Drivers in this city refuse to deliver food for 36 hours

It will be the longest warning strike in the history of the delivery service Lieferando, promises the NGG union.

picture alliance/dpa/Sebastian Gollnow | Just Eat Takeaway

Hungry customers of Germany's largest delivery service Lieferando Waiting in vain for their food at the end of the week in Hamburg may be impossible. The Food, Beverages and Catering Union (NGG) has called on its employees to stage a 36-hour warning strike on Friday and Saturday. The union announced that this is the start of further work stoppages across Germany. The reason for this is the refusal of the parent company Just Eat Takeaway to negotiate a collective agreement for its approximately 6,000 employees.

For more than two years, Lieferando deaf, complained NGG head of department Mark Baumeister. "Especially after the high inflation of recent years, a collective agreement is more than overdue." Lieferando stop relying on service providers such as “Fleetlery” in order to put the courier business into foreign hands in anticipation of the implementation of the EU Platform Directive.

In Berlin alone, around 500 jobs have been lost in recent months at Lieferando The NGG complained that the company's employment rates had been cut. And not only that: the dismissed employees were often contacted promptly by subcontractors to offer them a new contract with significantly worse terms.

“The 36-hour warning strike in Hamburg is the longest strike to date at Lieferando ", said NGG union secretary Vincent Orth from the Hamburg-Elmshorn region. The union sees its demands as being in line with those of the predominantly migrant workers, namely a collective agreement with a minimum basic wage of 15 euros, collectively agreed supplementary wages, and an end to further outsourcing.

According to NGG, the warning strike will begin on Friday at 12:00 noon and will last until Saturday at midnight. On Friday, a demonstration march will also begin at 12:30 noon from the union building near the main train station to Lieferando -HUB in the Hammerbrook district and back again.

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