standing ovation for Jane McAlevey here at Labor Notes

New research article (Jing Wang & myself): examining what happened to NYC's food delivery workers who NYC treated as public threats before the pandemic and then as 'essential' during the pandemic by using racial capitalism & (im)mobilities
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OLRB denies @CUPW request for list of Uber employees with contact information.

Union estimated 500 employee drivers in Hamilton unit.

Uber argues that it has no employees.

But if it does, there’s 8200 of them! 🤣 uber.app.box.com/s/5clwszekloz5…

Wow 👀

Remember in 2018, when gig companies were pushing 'portable benefits' to avoid having to extend existing protections for workers? At the time, NDWA experimented with a portable benefits app - Alia.

Predictably, Alia did not work & has been 'sunsetted.'

domesticemployers.org/resource/sunse…

This story about virtual cashiers includes a picture of a app delivery worker trying to negotiate a pick up with a woman over zoom. This image is the perfect encapsulation of a Rube Goldberg machine whose only fiction is to avoid labor law. Horrifying! nytimes.com/2024/04/11/nyr…

Hollywood bosses seems eager to displace animators, visual effects workers, & other artists w/generative AI—& firms like OpenAI seem happy to help.

I spoke with labor organizers planning to demand AI protections in upcoming contract negotiations. context.news/ai/hollywood-a…

Prospective PhD students have until Monday to decide where they want to study!

My new piece in Research & Politics with Dominik Stecuła may be informative. It shows that programs that pay their students better place more of them into tenure-track jobs. A brief 🧵 1/

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Proof app delivery companies have reached peak corporate greediness? In the latest episode of The Simpsons, Marge becomes an app delivery worker and has to fight for her rights…(1/3) eater.com/24122195/simps…

Was on PBS NewsHour last night giving context on Uber and Lyft’s threat to leave Minneapolis and the incredible organizing of ⁦Mulda⁩ pbs.org/newshour/show/…

.MrAndrewTheWolf discusses fair pay strategy employed by Lyft and Uber drivers in Minneapolis, which the companies are threatening to leave if the pay ordinance is not changed pbs.org/newshour/show/…

Totally overcast in Seneca Falls, NY for the total eclipse. Still pretty cool.

John Oliver cited our The Worker Institute study with Los Deliveristas Unidos in his segment on conditions in the gig economy! Was great to see him take up the issue and the need to improve conditions in the industry.

Exclusive🚨

Divers Have Until July 29 to Apply for Uber and Lyft Wage Theft Settlements

But NY AG James Warns Against Scams

To Qualify for Settlement Money There is Only One Way to Get It

Read how in my latest for Documented Report for America
documentedny.com/2024/04/03/ube…

On stepping down, D. Taylor calls for a labor coalition to organize Amazon. For all the bluster about taking the UPS contract to organize Amazon, the Teamsters appear to lack any strategic vision. Hope that changes fast because 2028 isn't that far. Yikes!
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1/ 2023 union membership data is now available for most large unions from the Dept. of Labor. Which unions gained membership and which unions lost members? What are the long-term trends since 2010? 🧵👇👇👇

🌐The survey on Platform Co-op(s) is going strong with over 50 respondents across 5 continents. Plus, I’ve just launched the same survey using the ethical tool Liberaforms. Haven't participated yet? You still have time until May 1st! my.liberaforms.org/be-part-of-the…. Please share and RT!🤝

Gig firms exacerbating caste discrimination in India. labor is fighting back.

Great example of the social construction of tech. You put societies garbage in and you get garbage out.

INBOX: NY-based The Drivers Cooperative plans to start operating in Minneapolis “before May 1,” the date @uber and Lyft have said they’ll stop serving Minneapolis

Looks like Mulda is partnering with the co-op to sign up drivers