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Uber Drivers Not Employees - Trump NLRB

The future for Uber drivers won’t be decided by the US government.

Uber and other "gig" workers will decide their own future by struggle, like the historic May 8th strike actions

>More to the point, by far the best advances in working conditions for Uber drivers to date have come not from any sort of national lawsuit or legislation, but from concerted local pressure. In New York City, for instance, the city council last December approved a first-of-its-kind wage floor for ride-hail drivers. The pay rules that took effect in February raised take-home pay for drivers to $17.22 an hour, or the contractor equivalent of the city’s $15-an-hour minimum wage. They are expected to lift average incomes by $10,000, or 44%, for roughly 70,000 professional ride-hail drivers in the city.

>New York City is only one place, but it’s also one of Uber’s biggest markets, meaning these rules are not inconsequential. The company disclosed in a recent IPO filing that the pay rules are already hurting its financial performance. Now that New York has hammered out a framework for bettering the lot of ride-hail drivers, it will also be easier for other cities to follow.

>On the other side of the US, California legislators are working to codify an employment-status test that makes it harder to argue workers are contractors. The so-called ABC test says workers are employees if the company controls what they do, if their jobs are essential to the company’s core business, and if they aren’t really running their own business through that gig. The ABC test could potentially cripple the business model of many gig-economy companies, which depend on large, diffuse networks of contractors to provide services and deliver goods at the touch of a button.

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Uber Drivers Not Employees-NLRB

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TwitterFacebookMail Uber drivers protest their working conditions ahead of the company’s May 10 IPO., Earlier this week, the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released an April 16 memo that s...

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4 days ago

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School cafeteria worker fired for giving food to student who couldn't pay

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5 days ago

>The greedy upstart rideshare companies in the new gig economy have driven labor costs down to barely above — and in some cases below — the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, with no benefits.

>Since less money for workers means more money for the bosses, one might expect investors to flock to these super-exploitive companies in droves. However, the falling price of Uber stock reflects two problems for the investing class: one, capitalism is in a deep, protracted crisis; two, workers are fighting back.
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Uber stock sales flop as global rideshare workers strike!

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Uber/Lyft/Via/Juno drivers leveraged their collective power and went on strike May 8 in a global day of action to protest their employers' greed. Drivers held a number of solidarity rallies and urged ...

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Sara Nelson Is Not Afraid to Strike Back

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When I mention Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA), to people in the labor movement, the response is usually something like: “I would follow her to the gates...

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7 days ago

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Striking Driver Speaks Out: Uber & Lyft Are “Slave Systems” That Exploit Workers

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Uber and Lyft drivers in cities around the world went on strike Wednesday to protest low wages and poor treatment of workers just days before Uber’s initial public offering, which could value the co...

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2 weeks ago

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Congratulations May 8 STRIKERS! Salutations to STRIKER families! Gratitude to our dear riders who refused to cross the strike line! You made history with your sacrifice and shook Wall Street in its b...

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2 weeks ago

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Turn off the apps!
Strikes on!

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2 weeks ago

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turn off the app
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2 weeks ago

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Boston Uber Drivers To Join Employees In Major Cities Across The Country In Strike About Wages

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Boston Uber drivers said their action is meant as a show of solidarity, and they're asking passengers not to use ride-hailing apps for 24 hours.

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3 weeks ago

SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKING UBER & LYFT DRIVERS - TAKE ACTION: bit.ly/May8Solidarity

On Wednesday May 8, Uber and Lyft drivers will conduct a one day strike in numerous cities.

May 8 is also the day that Uber, a multi-billion dollar global company with nearly 25,000 workers around the world, will be selling stocks on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time.

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ALL OUT FOR MAY DAY 2019!

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3 weeks ago

>The grocery clerks and bakers and meat cutters holding signs were protesting proposed cuts to their benefits, but their plight also resonated with the public because they represented something bigger: working Americans across the country whose wages are barely budging while the cost of living skyrockets in such places as Boston and corporations rake in record profits.

>In the recent wave of strikes nationwide, unions have effectively linked their cause to the broader fight against income inequality that ramped up nearly eight years ago with Occupy Wall Street. And for the most part, they have succeeded in fending off cuts and even adding new protections.

>These battles are being waged as anger grows over the widening gap between rich and poor and public support for the labor movement is at a 15-year high, even as union membership continues its long, steady decline. But with nearly 15 million union members nationwide, and young people, professionals, and people of color bringing new energy to the movement, unions are showing they can still be a formidable force.
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Unions are on frontlines of fight against inequality

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In the recent wave of strikes nationwide, unions have linked their cause to the broader battle against income inequality and showed they can still be a formidable force.

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4 weeks ago

BREAKING NEGOTIATION UPDATE: Minutes ago, UFCW reached a Tentative Agreement with Stop & Shop. In our union process, local unions democratically vote on whether to accept the Tentative Agreement at a contract meeting. If they vote yes on the agreement, the protest will officially end. In the meantime, while we wait on these meetings to be scheduled, our members WILL return to work tomorrow. This is a very positive development that we could not have achieved without your unyielding support. Please, stay closely tuned to this page over the next 72 hours as we will update you with more information when we have it. ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

2 PM > Thursday 4/18
> Stop & Shop South Bay - Dorchester
Solidarity Forever!
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2 PM > Thursday 4/18
> Stop & Shop South Bay - Dorchester
Solidarity Forever!
Shut ‘em Down!

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1 month ago

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Braintree Food Bank Offers Help To Stop & Shop Workers On Strike

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Any striking Stop & Shop workers are welcome to stop by the Marge Crispin Center in Braintree and take what they need.

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Thanks to Braintree food shop offered to Stop and Shop strikers, bravo!

Boston House of Pizza delivered food to the picketline in Roslindale when I was there last weekend. The workers said they had received other food from them at other times, too.

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1 month ago

>The UFCW, in its statement Thursday, said Stop and Shop was flush with cash.

>“Stop & Shop’s parent company, Ahold Delhaize, saw over $2 billion in profit last year and got a US tax cut of $225 million in 2017,” the release said.

>The union continued, “While Stop & Shop continues to propose drastically cutting worker benefits, Ahold shareholders voted on April 10 to give themselves an 11.1 percent raise in dividends over last year. The expected payout will be on April 25 for around $880 million.”

>Bollen, the union president, said in his video message that the union would maintain solidarity.

>“We’re going to stick together,” Bollen said. “We’re gonna fight hard. We’re done playing games with this company. We told you we were going to fight like hell to get a good contract, and we’ve been trying to do that since January. We have not succeeded. The company will not give in, and it’s time for action.”

>Bollen continued, “Stay strong, stay united, talk to the customers, and we’re going to stay till we win.”
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Stop & Shop workers walk out after negotiation impasse - The Boston Globe

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Stop & Shop workers walked off the job Thursday afternoon, after more than 31,000 employees last month authorized their labor leaders to call for a work stoppage amid increasingly strained contract ne...

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