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Tutto scorre di martedì 10/03/2026

·1 hr 17 min·6 clips

Why did prosecutors place Glovo and Deliveroo under judicial administration for caporalato and exploitation of riders?

1. Radio Popolare's 'Tutto scorre' on Tuesday March 10, 2026, hosted by Roberto Maggioni, is dedicated to critical consumption and the ethics of food delivery. 2. Host Maggioni presents alongside Luisa Nannipieri in editorial, and opens with the news that Glovo and Deliveroo have been placed under judicial administration by Milan's prosecutor for caporalato. 3. The core question of the episode is whether consumers can and should change their spending habits in response to documented labour exploitation, or leave enforcement to unions and magistrates. 4. Davide Contu of FILT-CGL, the first union delegate inside Just Eat Italy, explains that law 128 of 2019 required food delivery platforms to recognise riders as subordinate employees with full labour rights. 5. Asso Delivery, the industry association, secretly signed an agreement with the UGL rider union in late 2020 that ratified piecework payment and excluded subordination rights from the sector. 6. Just Eat, under new Dutch ownership, announced in late 2020 that it would hire riders as permanent employees across Europe and Canada, leading to a collective agreement signed in March 2021. 7. A subsequent prosecution produced an amendment of 733 million euros for all platforms, which was later reduced to 90,000 euros; only Just Eat complied, while competitors paid the fine and continued the same model. 8. Contu explains that the FLC-CGL has filed a pilot legal case against Burger King arguing that multinationals are clients — not suppliers — of delivery platforms and must enforce their own ethical codes on those platforms. 9. The Milan prosecutor's office has simultaneously acquired documents from seven multinationals including McDonald's, Carrefour, KFC and Poke House to evaluate their organisational models under supply-chain labour responsibility frameworks. 10. Carrefour suspended its partnership with Glovo and Deliveroo on March 5, the same week as the judicial administration orders. 11. Franz Purpura from Rob De Matt describes Sode Social Delivery, a social enterprise with 25 permanent employees operating two distribution hubs across Milan, offering bicycle logistics without piecework incentives. 12. Sode recovers unsold produce from large retail chains and delivers it to social cooperatives supporting families in poverty, and runs food-waste reduction projects at Milan's wholesale fruit market. 13. Caller Monica describes Emma, a self-managed community pantry in Milan with around 100 members that sources directly from vetted small producers and sells products to members at the producer price with zero markup. 14. Monica reports that some products at Emma cost less than their equivalent at mid-range supermarkets, challenging the assumption that ethical consumption is necessarily more expensive. 15. Caller Camilla in Turin describes choosing only restaurants and pizzerias that use their own delivery staff, avoiding all third-party platforms, and spending 30 to 50 euros per week on a direct weekly vegetable box from a sustainable farm near Turin. 16. Marco, who has been in a Gruppo d'Acquisto Solidale for nearly 20 years, argues that while solidarity purchasing groups have clear values, their impact is limited without reaching critical mass to challenge the dominant model. 17. Several listeners write in to report systematic personal boycotts: of Nestlé (African formula milk), Barilla (homophobia), Carrefour (links to Israeli state), and all delivery platforms (worker exploitation). 18. The episode's tone is conversational and caller-driven, with brief expert interview segments balanced by audience voices from Milan, Turin and Macerata. 19. The episode is best suited to listeners interested in labour rights, ethical consumption, and cooperative economics in an Italian urban context. 20. Listeners expecting clear policy solutions or a conclusion to the debate will find the episode leaves systemic questions open and unresolved.

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