🗣 'We simply cannot let gig work as it currently operates be the future of work.'
to their community guidelines for drivers).
“What these companies have done, and then called ‘innovation’ is just undermine the rights and protections that were fought for and won by organized workers decades ago,” Shona said. “They figured out how to undermine these protections, and then how to displace the cost of production onto the worker. This is dangerous to all workers and to the future of work in this country.”
As public support for AB5 increased and the bill became a law, Gig Workers Rising says Uber and Lyft have pushed back. “Immediately following the passage of AB5 in the Senate, both companies sent fear-mongering messages to drivers with threats of layoffs,” Shona said. “They also sent messages to passengers threatening to raise rates — essentially asking consumers to side with the companies in continuing to pay poverty wages to workers.
AB5 supporters have pointed out that the “flexibility” argument obscures the fact that drivers still often set their schedules depending on when they’re more likely to make money. As Assemblywoman Gonzalez the state Senate Labor Committee during an AB5 hearing, “Lyft and Uber today decide whether or not these workers are flexible. That is in their hands, not in the law.
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