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Jan 31 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Really importantly, this bill would require that the companies disclose to drivers and consumers how much money the consumer is paying for a ride, how much money the worker is getting, and how much money the company is taking for itself. #copolitics

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The companies' business model depends on paying drivers as little as possible while charging consumers as much as possible and manipulating both through algorithm. Basic transparency regarding the amounts the companies take from each ride should be a no brainer.
Without the protections of labor laws and consumer protection laws, the "future of work" will be a future of algorithmic oppression, and it won't stop with transportation and delivery work.

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Jan 31
.@TowardsJustice is committed to helping workers fight employer-driven debt that strips them of their bargaining power and shifts the costs of doing business from corporations onto workers. Read this piece about our most recent case:

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Employer-driven debt can be devastating to working people, but because it slips between the cracks of consumer, labor, and unfair competition law, it hasn't gotten enough attention from federal agencies. We've seen some important signs of progress from the @FTC and @CFPB
And hopefully more to come from @USDOL and @USDOT. To learn more about this issue and how government can protect workers, check out our testimony to @SenateBanking:
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Jan 20, 2022
Involuntary servitude & peonage are all around us. Thought I'd highlight one powerful example from an @TowardsJustice case. We represent former child-support debtors in PA who say the county and private companies forced them to work for $5.00 a DAY at a local recycling center/1
The case, which is now before the Third Circuit, involves allegations of the horrific working conditions our clients were subjected to every day during their months of work at the Lackawanna County Recycling Center. From the complaint:
And yet, the detained debtors (imprisoned under civil contempt orders) say they were forced to work or wait months for their freedom while unable to earn an income to begin paying off their debts or supporting their children /3
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Jan 19, 2022
Work from home schemes like this illustrate so many problems with work--and this is a super important action by @AGKarlRacine. /1
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Especially during the pandemic, these companies have targeted women of color in particular with sub-minimum wage jobs through the false promise of autonomy and entrepreneurial opportunity. These jobs often involve brutal work quotas and intense minute-by-minute surveillance. /2
The facts are also a powerful example of the harms of workplace fissuring. Comcast and other large companies have cut costs by contracting out customer service (a pretty big part of what Comcast does) to these operations. /3
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Jan 14, 2022
The OSHA decision is about dismantling the administrative state in service of corporate power. This isn’t our first rodeo, and unless we make some big changes (cough, expand the court), we should get used to it. But it also reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of work. /1
Throughout the pandemic, @TowardsJustice has represented workers terrified of going to work. These workers were told they were “essential,” but for most, all that meant was they’d lose everything unless they subjected themselves and their families to risk of injury or death. /2
During much of this time, I was working from home, because I could make my own choices about how to keep myself and my family safe. My clients couldn’t. The striking differences in our levels of autonomy was apparent in every conversation. /3
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