Such cases are the reverse of the size that the Collaborative Economy has adopted. Instead of the small jobs and favors that are made for a few sodas, they have become companies with economic activities that generate enormous profits. Although AirBnB is the company of this type that has been gaining more popularity lately, Bla Bla Car or Deliveroo are also not for less.

In the case of Deliveroo, the workers are called “riders” in the company, i.e. drivers, who have denounced that this “category of collaborators” hides their working relationship with the company. In fact, when the company says it is going to cancel a contract that included at least twenty hours a week, the workers get angry and organize themselves for the first time.

It is also the first time that, in this “new economy”, a strike has taken place and has generated expectation among the sectors that live in a precarious situation. Solidarity has been shown on social networks by the worker of Las Kellys Hotels, the union of musicians and artists FrentePop, the union of shippers or workers on strike in the Barcelona metro.

Precisely among the demands, the Ridersxderechos collective, has been asked to be recognized as representing workers, making unions a model for sectors that do not arrive. The demands of the strike are at least 20 hours a week, 8 euros an hour and the reinstatement of the workers who have been expelled.

“If we’re not going to charge, we’re not going to walk,” they protested on the bike.

#Now Riders distributors X barrios al grito d si no cobramos no rodamos #DeliverooExplota #HuelgaDeliveroo pic.twitter.com/VE8tc3MZQM

— #HuelgaDeliveroo (@ridersxderechos) July 9, 2017