Everything indicates that this weekend we will have another strike of people working for the Glovo Platform. In the previous strike, one of the strongest demands was decent pay for this hard and dangerous work.
Observing activities in other places in the world where Platform businesses operate, it is easy to realize that a strike is basically the only way to change something. Pressure is then exerted not only on the Platform, but also on public opinion. And it puts pressure on the authorities – either at the local or state level. In response to this pressure, the authorities in many places established appropriate laws, most often limiting themselves to establishing a minimum wage for Platform employees.
In response to such changes, Platforms always launch a fear campaign. They threaten that they will be forced to close their business in a given place.
Looking at it from a different perspective: when laws are passed that the Platforms do not like, these corporations threaten and spread fear, believing that the democratically passed laws should not apply to them.
Uber is probably the master of this strategy: it has committed to leaving Barcelona in Spain, Quebec in Canada, Seattle in the US. Or even the whole of Austria. And what happened? Nothing! When the law finally went into effect, neither Uber nor any other platform suspended services.
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