The agreement would raise the price of the smallest race at around 10.20 euros for the passenger on an application like Uber. Three out of seven unions consider it too little ambitious and refused to sign it.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
VTC driver unions (TRADE vehicles with driver) and platforms agreed to impose a minimum income of 7.65 euros per race on Wednesday, January 18. But the agreement is far from being unanimous among trade union organizations in the sector, where social dialogue is still in its infancy.
The agreement, which provides for the implementation of a minimum income by journey from 1 er February, would raise the price of the smallest race at around 10.20 euros for The passenger on an application like Uber, including the commissions. Three out of seven unions refused to sign the agreement, deemed too little ambitious, according to them.
The signatories are the VTC de France association (AVF), which alone weighs 42.8 % of the votes, the National Federation of Auto Entrepreneurs and Microentrepreneurs (FNAE), the CFTC and the UNSA. This “unprecedented in France” agreement will allow “an increase of more than 27 % compared to the low -income minim [al] net current”, praised these organizations in a press release.
a very deficient sector In matters of social rights
But for Union (affiliated with the CFDT), the association of independent Lyon drivers (ACIL) and FO – 32.1 % of the votes to them three – this agreement is insufficient. The new minimum rate “will not change anything in the daily activity” of drivers, denounced Union in a press release. “Most do not accept small races deemed not profitable in the face of the increase in fuel prices and traffic conditions,” explains the union.
At Uber, where the minimum income per race is 6 euros, we salute the agreement, even if “many of these races were declined because not enough remunerative”, agreed with the France-Presse Laureline Seyries agency, General manager of Uber France.
The Union union, for its part, requires the opening of discussions on the establishment of a minimum income per hour or per kilometer in order to “guarantee real profitability of the sector”, remunerating, for example, approach times. Uber, which has 32,000 drivers using its platform, is said to be open to dialogue, but “support for the number of hours spent on the platform poses question” because drivers can use several applications at the same time, insists m me seyries.
Since May, the brand new authority for regulating employment platforms (ARPE) has been supposed to organize social dialogue in the VTC driver and meal delivery sector, very deficient in terms of social rights.
The first elections organized in the spring of 2022 met with very low success with only 1.83 % participation among delivery people and 3.91 % among VTC.