Uber & Lyft have touted the gas app Upside as a way they've helped drivers save at the pump, so maddy varner and I took a deeper look at the app. We learned it uses AI & user data to dictate how much to charge people--and that doesn't always lead to savings themarkup.org/ask-the-markup…

This is not a labour win. Gig platforms have clocked that organized labour is the biggest threat to their model. Company unions are the strategy they now deploy in order to defang and divide this growing movement.

Edward Ongweso Jr I wish the Democratic Party was even 10% as pro-worker as rich narcissists think they are.

If even an orange cat can understand classification, we can too.

But there's an app to control the serfs

UNCONSTITUTIONAL! PA GOP Senator Devlin Robinson not that you care about OUR constitution but your constituents do so pay attention w/those little maga pea brains of yours #gigworkisrealwork

So sell our bodies to the Pentagon in exchange for.... basic bodily autonomy? Our members know a company union when we see one. If I want my uterus to be mine, I have to die for it. Message heard loud and clear.

During the final days of session in 2019, Uber Chief Legal Counsel told me if I didn’t exempt them from AB5, they’d just continue to break the law. Because… that’s their business model. So, it’s hard for me to believe their sins of the past ended in 2017 as they claim now.

So far the best analysis turned into a demand: pay us for wait time!

Meme is about Starbucks Workers United but PA GOP is doing the same thing with SB949. We r ALREADY entitled to unemployment & workers comp. #uberfiles tell us to ask how much $ Senator Devlin Robinson & Sen. Kim Ward get from Uber & DoorDash. Official UBC seiu32bj.org

Just so we're clear: Instacart is no longer paying most shoppers in North America. They are paying 60¢ a mile for your travel TO the customer and ONLY $1.50 to shop the ENTIRE order. THAT IS ILLEGAL, EVERYWHERE. CUSTOMERS, PLEASE STOP USING THIS PREDATORY SCAM SERVICE!

After a spike in carjacking incidents, a new bill in Chicago proposes boosting pay and improving working conditions for Uber and Lyft drivers bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg CityLab

👉En attendant le Forum Transnational des Alternatives à l'Ubérisation, les travailleurs de plateformes du monde entier se réunissent en assemblée générale. ✊️Mot d'ordre : s'organiser ensemble pour être plus forts que le cartel #Uber #Deliveroo #Macron ! #StopUberisation

Parker Jack Califano There's a whole bunch of people out there working two jobs that are too tired to be proud of living in poverty.

As if Uber drivers didn't have enough to worry about w runaway inflation, rising interest rates & higher fuel prices, now Uber's share price is tanking. Cause is management greed in pursuing a doomed business model built on labour exploitation. dara khosrowshahi is as deluded as Liz Truss!

How do these people sleep at night knowing their company thrives on human misery? Uber was a child of the 08 crash at the dawn of mobile tech. Now as the economy slips again, the bleaker the future is for ordinary people, the brighter it is for Uber's management & investors.

NELP applauds U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed rule on employment under the FLSA. The 6 metrics correct decades of employers reshaping laws for their benefit while denying mostly Black & Latinx independent contractors the rights they are entitled to. Read more: bit.ly/3ECsQBs

Breaking: MN Attorney General Keith Ellison & DC Archive: AG Karl A. Racine both sued gig company Shipt for underpaying workers and misclassifying them as independent businesses instead of as employees. (FYI, Shipt is owned by Target) Here's a news story about the DC AG's case: (1/4) theverge.com/2022/10/27/234…