Philadeplhia Drivers' Union. Fighting For The Rights of App-Based Drivers.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined April 2019
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Dispelling smoke & mirrors from @DoorDash @uber @Instacart
@lyft Y'all never needed a law before 2 do what you want- y now? inquirer.com/opinion/senate-…
@DriveBIDG @ChicagoRidesha1 @NYTWA @PaSenateDems @GigWorkersRise @wedriveprogress @PhillyJwJ @Massnotforsale @PADems @NelpNews
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Breaking: MN @AGEllison & DC @AGKarlRacine both sued gig company @Shipt for underpaying workers and misclassifying them as independent businesses instead of as employees. (FYI, Shipt is owned by @Target) Here's a news story about the DC AG's case: (1/4) theverge.com/2022/10/27/2342…
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NELP applauds @USDOL’s proposed rule on employment under the FLSA. The 6 metrics correct decades of employers reshaping laws for their benefit while denying mostly Black & Latinx independent contractors the rights they are entitled to. Read more: bit.ly/3ECsQBs
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How do these people sleep at night knowing their company thrives on human misery? Uber was a child of the 08 crash at the dawn of mobile tech. Now as the economy slips again, the bleaker the future is for ordinary people, the brighter it is for Uber's management & investors.
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As if Uber drivers didn't have enough to worry about w runaway inflation, rising interest rates & higher fuel prices, now Uber's share price is tanking. Cause is management greed in pursuing a doomed business model built on labour exploitation. @dkhos is as deluded as @trussliz!
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There's a whole bunch of people out there working two jobs that are too tired to be proud of living in poverty.
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👉En attendant le Forum Transnational des Alternatives à l'Ubérisation, les travailleurs de plateformes du monde entier se réunissent en assemblée générale.
✊️Mot d'ordre : s'organiser ensemble pour être plus forts que le cartel #Uber #Deliveroo #Macron ! #StopUberisation
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Just so we're clear:
@Instacart is no longer paying most shoppers in North America.
They are paying 60¢ a mile for your travel TO the customer and ONLY $1.50 to shop the ENTIRE order.
THAT IS ILLEGAL, EVERYWHERE.
CUSTOMERS, PLEASE STOP USING THIS PREDATORY SCAM SERVICE! – at Mount Prospect, IL
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After a spike in carjacking incidents, a new bill in Chicago proposes boosting pay and improving working conditions for Uber and Lyft drivers bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @citylab
Meme is about @SBWorkersUnited but @PAGOP is doing the same thing with SB949. We r ALREADY entitled to unemployment & workers comp. #uberfiles tell us to ask how much $ @SenRobinsonPA & @SenatorKimWard get from Uber & DoorDash.
@UBCJA_Official @seiu32bj
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During the final days of session in 2019, @Uber Chief Legal Counsel told me if I didn’t exempt them from AB5, they’d just continue to break the law. Because… that’s their business model. So, it’s hard for me to believe their sins of the past ended in 2017 as they claim now.
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So far the best analysis turned into a demand: pay us for wait time!
Uber CEO: “I’ve had my people let him know that every minute late [Biden] is, is one less minute he will have with me.”
So Uber's CEO recognizes the value of waiting time after all!
Then why not compensate drivers for P1 time?
@veenadubal @nicoemoe
theguardian.com/news/2022/ju…
So sell our bodies to the Pentagon in exchange for.... basic bodily autonomy? Our members know a company union when we see one. If I want my uterus to be mine, I have to die for it. Message heard loud and clear.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL! @PAGOP @SenRobinsonPA not that you care about OUR constitution but your constituents do so pay attention w/those little maga pea brains of yours #gigworkisrealwork
Millions of MA drivers, passengers, and taxpayers can rest easier knowing that this unconstitutional big by Big Tech CEOs to manipulate MA law has been struck down by the SJC.
Our full statement: massachusettsisnotforsale.or…
If even an orange cat can understand classification, we can too.
There are other kinds of misclassification, too. (Like when a boss pretends you’re actually an independent contractor even though they are in charge of everything you do.)
It’s bullshit, and we need more workers to know their rights and defend them! nelp.org/publication/indepen…
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I wish the Democratic Party was even 10% as pro-worker as rich narcissists think they are.
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This is not a labour win.
Gig platforms have clocked that organized labour is the biggest threat to their model.
Company unions are the strategy they now deploy in order to defang and divide this growing movement.
BREAKING NEWS 🚨:
@Deliveroo and GMB Union announce a new joint agreement for Riders.
It's official - we're the union for Deliveroo Riders.
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Uber & Lyft have touted the gas app Upside as a way they've helped drivers save at the pump, so @tenuous and I took a deeper look at the app.
We learned it uses AI & user data to dictate how much to charge people--and that doesn't always lead to savings
themarkup.org/ask-the-markup…
