[...] in recent years many employers -- mostly the big multionational delivery companies able to make large investments -- started to increase their use of technology and, alongside this, changed their attitude toward grassroots unionism. Then, rather than putting in place anti-union policies and taking on the risk of a labor conflict (and thus of serious economic losses), they are changing their strategy in order to increase productivity and regain control over labor through co-optation or cooperation with the union.

[...] As the complex inter-firm networks and contracting chains that were used in the past to reduce costs become less profitable because labor costs have increased, many big companies are reconsidering the possibility of internalizing labor in order to retake control over the whole labor process.