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Gig Workers Are Voting No On Prop 22

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21 Oct

@VoteNoOnProp22

BREAKING: The @VoteNoOnProp22 filed a complaint with @USPS this morning in response to Uber, Lyft, etc sending out mailers using the "Non Profit Status" price.

We believe they owe USPS over $1.5m.

The $189m corporate campaign is taking a public subsidy.

1/X

Here's what the mailers look like.

Check out the postage section "non profit status"

Only certain groups qualify for that status: eg. religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic (charitable), etc. The Uber & Lyft. campaign is definitely not eligible for non profit status

Per the last filings the Yes campaign spent $3.5m on mailers. The normal bulk rate for flat fee is 26 cents, the non profit rate is 18 cents. This means they saved at least 30% which comes out at $1.5m.

This is effectively a public subsidy for a $200m corporate campaign.

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Gig Workers Are Voting No On Prop 22

@GigWorkersRise

19 Oct

This is the series of messages drivers get when they log in to the Uber app—*seven* different screens they have to click through before working.

It's fear mongering from start to finish about how they'll lose jobs & flexibility.

#NoOnProp22

Imagine being a driver & seeing these messages about your job being cut. Of course you're going to be scared. It's a dirty, vile trick, praying on people's economic insecurity.

And the worst part is *none of it is true.* No one would force the companies to do this.

Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, & the rest of the gig companies talk about flexibility all the time, saying drivers will lose it.

But that's entirely up to them. If they want to ensure flexibility in the app, they can *design* that—that's their whole job! Designing apps & workflow.

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Gig Workers Are Voting No On Prop 22

@GigWorkersRise

13 Feb

@Amazon

Imagine spending over an hour swiping on your phone, hoping to get a "block" that means you'll get paid for the day.

Imagine doing this first thing in the morning, at 3am, for the "privilege" of delivering packages.

That's what @Amazon Flex does. It's killing workers.

👇👇

Flex makes drivers use their own cars. Drivers swipe until they get a free "block"—a window when they're guaranteed work.

But these blocks are *so* hard to get. You have to be on your phone constantly, swiping, an hour or two a day.

You don't get paid for that time.

Some drivers use bots to swipe for blocks b/c they can't do it quickly enough themselves.

Drivers are *paying to work,* sometimes up to $500 for a bot.

Let that sink in.

Drivers, making $18-$25/hr, paying $$$ for the right to deliver our packages.😡

cnbc.com/2020/02/09/ama…

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Gig Workers Are Voting No On Prop 22

@GigWorkersRise

27 Nov 19

Last month, Jeff was driving for Uber in SF. It was Hardly Strictly, one of the busiest days of the year. Jeff was driving till 3am.

He'd been driving 15 hrs. He needed to use the bathroom, pulled over onto one of the few public ones. He was jumped—broken nose, ribs, the works.

Jeff usually shuts off the app at 1:30am, but he had to work till 3am b/c that's when the fares were good that day & he has rent & a daughter.

"You either drive these times when it’s dangerous or you make no money."

When Uber/Lyft talk about flexibility, this is what they mean.

He dropped a group of four off near Lombard & knew there was a public bathroom near Coit Tower, so he went, alone in the middle of the night.

"There’s just not that many places to stop and go to the bathroom, so when you’re near one you take advantage of it."

It'd cost him.

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Gig Workers Are Voting No On Prop 22

@GigWorkersRise

16 Aug 19

We just met a Lyft driver from Afghanistan. He came over after working security for the US Army for 5 yrs.

His 11 m/o daughter was born here. His full-time job is Lyft. He works in SF but lives in Modesto—2.5 hrs away.

He works 12-hr shifts. He sleeps in his car between days.

He starts working at 9am & stops at 9pm. He sleeps in Safeway parking lots, in the Marina, wherever people don't bother him.

A man who had the incredibly dangerous job of protecting American soldiers in Afghanistan is now sleeping in his car working for Lyft.

Think about that.

This is how these gig firms treat their workers, putting them in such hard straits that they're forced to choose between spending time w/family & making a living.

And to make a living, people are skipping meals, skipping bathroom breaks, sleeping in cars.

It's worker abuse.

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Gig Workers Are Voting No On Prop 22

@GigWorkersRise

6 Aug 19

3 months ago Steve was at work. It was 11pm. He was driving in Oakland en route to pick up a Lyft passenger. Out of nowhere a car crashed into him. Airbag exploded. The car was a write off. Steve’s neck was in pain & he had a ‘Nissan’ logo bruise on his arm, from the airbag.

Steve called Hertz, who he was renting the car from. No help. He looked everywhere to find the Lyft roadside assistance # & finally found it. They don’t make it easy. Later they told him he wouldn’t be covered as his app wasn’t on. It was. He was en route to pick up a passenger.

In the heat of the moment he posted an update on the Gig Workers Rising forum sharing with drivers he was stranded on the side of the road by the Grand Lake in Oakland, needed to go to hospital and Lyft and Hertz were not helping.

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