We’re hitting the tourist sites and asking voters to stand with workers, not CEO’s and vote #NoOnProp22

Where should we go next? Today’s a great day for a beach day and to stand with working people by voting #NoOnProp22.

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.