Delivery drivers protest in Italian streets to demand "decent wages, stability, and rights."

Today, Glovo and Deliveroo riders are taking to over 30 streets in a national demonstration promoted by the CGIL, from Rome to Naples, Palermo, Bologna, Milan, and Florence, to demand “decent wages, stability, and concrete rights.” The CGIL confederal secretary denounced “extreme” working conditions. Francesca Re David, From her stand in Rome’s Piazza Re di Roma, she highlights how “for the majority of cycle couriers, food delivery is their main job, with very intense shifts: 6-7 days a week, 7-10 hours a day, and more than 8 deliveries a day in 62 percent of cases.” “Wages,” the confederate secretary continues, “are below the dignity threshold.”

“Average wages,” adds Re David, “remain very low, between €2 and €4 per delivery, with no recognition of waiting times or expenses incurred, so much so that over half of riders refuse low-cost deliveries. These data confirm the urgency of implementing the national contract for goods and logistics and recognizing paid vacation, sick leave, accident pay, thirteenth and fourteenth month pay, severance pay, as well as greater health and safety guarantees.” “We expect,” concludes the confederal secretary, “that the intervention of the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office will lead food delivery companies to sit down at a table to finally recognize the national contract and their rights for cycle couriers. Enough exploitation.”