“With the intervention of the leaders of some member states, including Greece, what until yesterday was considered an important step of the European labor movement, namely the agreement on a directive regulating the rights of workers on digital platforms, was rejected (Wolt, Uber etc)”, says Efi Ahtsioglou in a post on Facebook.

The deputy of K.O. New Left points out that “the agreement that was to become a directive, i.e. a legally binding text, provided, among other things, that platform workers they would first be considered salaried workers (and certainly not self-employed) subject to all the protective regulations of labor legislation (for hours, insurance, gifts, minimum wage, collective bargaining, etc.)”.

He comments that “for the government of Mr. Mitsotakis, the daily attacks on the workers within the country are not enough, but he wants to prevent any initiative at a supranational level.”

He adds that “the brazen support of big companies -which function as modern galleys for the hundreds of thousands of precarious workers- from the ND does not surprise anyone. It is added to the already long list of its counterproductive interventions.”

He emphasizes that “it is a challenge that the ND remembers to intervene at the European level only when it comes to promoting an agenda of social regression for workers and the social majority”. “Once again he chooses a side, but so do we,” he concludes.