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We are here to 
support our comrades

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who were fired two years ago
in this wildcat strike.

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The reasons for the strike
at that time were multiple.

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But their claims were rightful.
Among other things

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there was the problem
that the bikes were not repaired,

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and this caused several accidents
and severe injuries,

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which means that the colleagues
would risk their lives at the job.

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I just want to say, Lieferando
sometime ago just told us

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that our bikes won't be repaired 
by Lieferando, either.

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Just to tell you
that this is still a hot take

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and the companies are still not 
respecting this basic right

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to have proper equipment, that we don't have
to risk our lives every day going to work.

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But of course,

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that's not the reason
this movement has become famous.

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The reason is because it put on the 
table again, the fact that in Germany

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in 2023, still in Germany, a country
that prides itself to be democratic,

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it is still illegal 
to strike as we want it.

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Courts forbid strikes

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without respecting
a very specific set of rules

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that makes striking for people
working in our industry

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pretty much impossible.

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Democracy, -

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this is the word that the 
Ministry of Labor, Hubertus Heil,

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who was minister
at that time, who is still minister today,

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the Minister of Labor of Olaf Schulz,

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he went to meet us in Kreuzberg
two years ago and he told us

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that he can't do anything about what
the company does when they are hiring

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or firing about 
the Tarifverträge.

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But we should just

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elect a Betriebsrat and see what's 
happening, because it's democracy!

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Well, here, my colleagues, 
we are in front of the court.

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We see what this means, 
democracy, for them.

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You can see the hypocrisy
of what they put behind this word.

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Where is the democracy here,
when the courts,

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the court of Berlin
isn't letting us strike as we want,

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doesn't give us this basic right
to strike for our living conditions?

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Where is the democracy

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when Kagan Sumer, the boss of Gorillas,
who is a complete good for nothing,

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He has made a company
that's losing money.

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He has sold the company 
for a billion Euros

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And now the living conditions for the
workers are still as disastrous as before.

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Where is the democracy when,
two years later,

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all the members of the workers' 
council, of the Betriebsrat

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have either been fired,
their contracts have not been extended,

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or they simply left because they couldn't
stand the pressure, the constant pressure

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from the management
and the illegal actions from them.

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There is no democracy 
in all of this.

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Except what you are 
doing, the workers.

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You are showing us all
what democracy looks like,

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what real democracy looks like.

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It doesn't come from phony negotiations
with politicians and management.

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It comes from the 
workers themselves.

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We are working.

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We are doing the work. 
Without us, they are nothing.

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And this is the reason
they are so afraid of strikes.

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You are an example to all of us
that you kept on the fight until now.

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I pray every single day
that you are going to win this struggle

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so that in the future, here in Germany,
only we, the workers, will decide

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whether we want to strike 
or not and how we do it.

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Thank you.