Tintxu Glovo is a former employee of the company. In the interview dedicated to Impacto Bilbao, he explains how the company operates from within. On the one hand, the way in which they worked at the beginning determines the evolution of the company: "When I started working they paid us 6 euros an hour, but when a lot of people signed up they took that salary and started paying according to what you were working for, they made us false self-employed."

With this change for the employee, the level of the job changed completely. This forced him to become self-employed, so he assumed that the profits would remain in vain. "That's what they end up doing when they're self-employed, running out of vacation, running out of help in the event of an accident, and working harder and harder to sort out the self-employed fee. Young people can apply for 50 euros, but for us it is impossible to continue with this work with this quota. That’s what they’re looking for.”

For example, in his case, he had an instripu last year: "I've been on leave for the last 6 months without charging anything. The company, on the one hand, and the mute, on the other, didn't care about my salary, and I stopped charging nothing." This happens with contracts like this. Tintxu says that with the bicycle, the metro or the weight loss on foot, they are constantly going from one side to the other and there are accidents. When it happens with these contracts they end up without any protection, without charging anything."

“People think we’re doing this because we love to ride a bike and things aren’t like that, this is our job and we demand a decent wage.” They are given the job according to their level, and the most important percentage of this level is given on weekends. Therefore, he explains, the worker’s choice is to work on weekends, but what is promoted by this is to work both on weekends and on all days.

This is what Tintxu has clarified. The company does not force the worker, but in view of the conditions that it finally puts on the table, the worker 'self-enslaved' himself. This is the only chance to move forward in the company and have a decent salary. "The company has everything very well calculated, it seeks self-slavery. It scores more on holidays and weekends, it's your choice but to keep going you have to work those hours and finally work 10-15 hours every day, every day of the week."

Impacto Bilbao, the assembly of precarious young people in Bilbao, says it continues to denounce cases like this. In Bilbao, he denounced the growing number of cases like this and said that he wanted to contact all of Glovo’s employees.

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