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1/15 The people who want to wipe out independent contractors are changing their messaging.
Pay attention to what’s happening right now in the press. Our opponents are trying to shift the narrative—with impeccable timing, ahead of upcoming congressional hearings on our issue.
Pay attention to what’s happening right now in the press. Our opponents are trying to shift the narrative—with impeccable timing, ahead of upcoming congressional hearings on our issue.
2/15 Two days ago, this story ran in the Los Angeles Times. In its first paragraph, the writer suggests (falsely) that virtually all independent contractors are being victimized by algorithms that are being used to determine things like pay rates.
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3/15 The story is based on “research” by Veena Dubal—a name well known to us. She’s one of the “researchers” whose work underpinned the mess in California that led to the #FreelanceBusting ABC Test law known as #AB5.
uchastings.edu/2018/05/14/uc-…
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1/4 Dear @bcmerchant,
You wrote:
"If you’ve ever worked for an on-demand app platform, or for Amazon, or even as an independent contractor at all in the last few years, there’s a good chance that you’ve been discriminated against — by an algorithm."
latimes.com/business/techn…
You wrote:
"If you’ve ever worked for an on-demand app platform, or for Amazon, or even as an independent contractor at all in the last few years, there’s a good chance that you’ve been discriminated against — by an algorithm."
latimes.com/business/techn…
2/4 What a wildly inaccurate lede.
App-based workers, or what researchers using IRS data call OPEs, make up less than 10% of all the independent contractors in the country.
In other words, the vast majority of ICs have *nothing to do* with pay rates set by algorithms.
App-based workers, or what researchers using IRS data call OPEs, make up less than 10% of all the independent contractors in the country.
In other words, the vast majority of ICs have *nothing to do* with pay rates set by algorithms.
3/4 In fact, study after study (after study after study) shows that most of us are happy with our choice to be independent contractors.
We're not being discriminated against.
fightforfreelancersusa.com/data-and-studi…
We're not being discriminated against.
fightforfreelancersusa.com/data-and-studi…
