Overview

• Lieferando couriers in Dortmund began a 72-hour strike on August 5, marking the longest stoppage in the company’s history and coinciding with walkouts in Bielefeld, Osnabrück and Münster.
• The NGG demands a nationwide collective tariff agreement featuring a €15 minimum wage, comprehensive insurance and additional pay for night shifts and mileage.
• Works councils have entered social-plan negotiations but say management has withheld critical details about the planned layoffs.
• The company is shifting roughly 20 percent of its delivery fleet to subcontractors including Fleetlery, Wolt and Uber Eats, a move the union calls a “shadow fleet” that undermines established agreements.
• Union representatives allege that subcontractors have blacklisted works council members and reject applicants with German names to target drivers with insecure residency, strengthening their push for a nationwide social-tariff framework.