Social association demands collective agreement at Lieferando

Too little security, too little pay and "start-up airs" - the criticism of the Catholic Workers' Movement of Lieferando is clear.

Attack from an unusual side: The Catholic Workers' Movement (Katholische Arbeitnehmerbewegung, KAB) demands collective wages for employees of Lieferando. The hourly wage is to be raised from currently ten to 15 euros. With this, the KAB supports the demands of the trade union Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten (NGG). "The courier drivers do not only need work contracts without time limits, but also a socially just collective agreement," says KAB Federal President Stefan Eirich.

But that's not all: Eirich denounces the entire gig economy, which pays its workers low wages and offers little security, while "start-up founders line their pockets with venture capital." Delivery services like Delivery Hero and Lieferando are making losses, which KAB attributes to the startups' push for expansion. "The bubble of start-up delivery services is in danger of bursting under fair conditions in the social market economy," Eirich suspects. The KAB calls on Lieferando to "finally" put aside its start-up airs - "more than ten years after its founding".

The KAB is a social association with 80,000 members nationwide and is guided by the Church's Social Proclamation, according to which people and not the economy should be the focus of politics.