We're in front of the Gorillas headquarters.
Where the management happens.
I've been inside so I can tell you
that they really have fun. It's like "The Wolf of Wall Street" inside.
And we and all these people are outside protesting,
because yesterday people that were asking for
better working conditions, got fired.
Through a telephone call and some with a notification
But not all of them.
And these people were not only my colleagues, but my friends.
So, that's why I'm here as well.
Yeah, after striking for our basic rights at Bergmannkiez warehouse,
all of us basically got fired, including me.
And some of us are getting reinstated.
But most of us are not going to get reinstated.
That even if that happens, I'm going to refuse to work at Gorillas.
I will never, ever work under those conditions
and allow them to treat me like that.
I mean, they saw a great resistance in Bergmankiez, I would say,
because there were previous strikes, but it was the first time
in Gorillas history that workers did the strike for three days.
And apart from a couple of workers,
we were all on board. Because we did not ask much.
We just asked the basic requirements, like, fair payment, payment in time,
payment in full.
We asked for safety at the workplace.
We asked for proper and legal scheduling.
And in the eyes of the company, we are just some toy to move around.
We are just some object, apparently.
But what we wanted to show maybe were not ever able to get our demands done.
But the core of it was to show them, hey, we are not your objects.
We are not at your disposal.
We are human beings with free will
and with dignity, and you cannot keep on violating it.
That was the main message, actually, in all those actions.
And instead of negotiating with us, they went the
insane way by firing many people.
This company is just it's not going to listen to its people.
The people should make them listen to them.
It's impossible for them to
be humanistic, be fair,
be participants of human rights, workers rights.
They're not going to do it. They will never do it.
That's why the workers should say something about it.
I won't be there,
but I'm pretty sure there will be many people bringing the issues up.
This this is not going to end. Firing one people, firing ten people,
firing a hundred people.
You are just going to bring more noise, more problems onto you.
And we are learning so much about our rights.
They should be afraid of this. Because they were
taking advantage of our sort of ignorance on that,
since we don't speak German or understand German that well.
But you can translate things you can translate and learn.
You can ask a German speaking person with an authority and you can learn.
And we are learning.
The reason I'm striking is because my friends keep falling off
the bikes, are getting injured
because the saddles on the bike and the pedals keep falling off.
We need better equipment to make it safe to do these deliveries.
And that's why I'm firing Kağan.
I am firing Kağan
because there is sexual harassment and racial discrimination in this company
and there is nothing to prevent these problems.
I am striking because we are all me and my coworkers
are immigrant workers that come here not to have our backs hurt.
My back hurts right now. Why?
Because this company is giving us 20 kilo bags to carry, in the winter.
And it's not fair.
It's not fair that they don't care because we're not from here.
So I am striking for that
We deserve better, not- because we're all like here to work,
you know. So, I am firing Kağan.
My name is Christian.
I work as - I work in a hotel,
and I'm part of the "Internationalistische Gruppe" here in Germany.
We're here today to protest
specifically against the illegal firings of the Gorillas workers,
but also to show
the rest of the delivery workers and the rest of the workers in Germany
that it is possible to struggle united and to defeat the bosses.
So the service sector, this sector of workers is one that
incorporates a lot of workers with immigrant background.
And we think, therefore,
that this struggle is very important also for the rest of the immigrant workers
to show that it's possible to struggle and to win
and that it should be taken as an example.
Today we are trying to achieve that,
the management sees that we are not alone, that we -
That they should respect us, first of all.
And secondly, we are trying to show them
that these firings were illegal.
Yeah, we are inviting everyone right now to delete the app of their phones.
Because every cent that they are going to help with the company to make profit
is going to be a contribution to the exploitation of workers.
And if they don't want to be a part of this dirty game,
they should delete the app immediately and boycott Gorillas.