Rideshare drivers with pre-existing conditions who had counted on getting two weeks’ leave have been unable to do so.
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Like Uber, but for Gig Worker Organizing
Drivers and delivery personnel for app-based employers keep getting squeezed. Now they’re fighting back.
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Workers Have Rights? Uber and the Chamber Go to Court to Stop Such Nonsense.
Today on TAP: In California, big business tries to overturn pro-worker legislation
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If Everyone Defined Their Business the Way Uber Does (A Playlet)
In a desperate display of legal legerdemain, Uber general counsel Tony West responded yesterday to the California legislature’s passage of a bill compelling companies to stop misclassifying their employees as independent contractors—as Uber does its drivers—with the novel legal theory that the drivers and the rides they provide aren’t part of Uber’s central business mission, […]
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Uber Goes Back to Basics: Violating the Law
By announcing it would not comply with a California law reclassifying its workers as employees, Uber is returning to the company’s time-honored tradition as a scofflaw.
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California Legislature Prepares to Rein In Gig Economy
If AB 5 becomes law, it could open the floodgates to similar legislation in other states. Uber and other companies may then find themselves on the defensive.
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A Bill in California Has Split the Democratic Party
A state bill that would reclassify most independent contractors as employees is revealing fractures between Obama-era Democrats and those seeking to lead the party into the future.
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When Cities Turn to Uber, Instead of Buses and Trains
Some money-losing transit districts shift to ridesharing—but the cost for that may prove even greater.
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With Uber’s Stock Tanking, Trump’s NLRB Rides to Its Rescue
The Board chose today to release a month-old memo saying Uber drivers can’t unionize.
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With Uber’s Stock Tanking, Trump’s NLRB Rides to Its Rescue.
“Uber Has Poisoned an IPO Market That Was Sick Anyway,” a Wall Street Journal headline proclaimed this morning. When the market closed Monday, two days after the company had first listed its stock, Uber’s shares had declined by 18 percent from its IPO listing of $45. To deter Uber’s owners from hurling themselves off […]