July 4th 2022
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The rideshare industry is plagued with concerns over worker exploitation. Though rideshare companies promise drivers autonomy and flexibility, they more often deliver meager wages, a lack of employment benefits, and opaque decision-making processes that can result...
At a rally yesterday, app workers in New York City announced the formation of a new coalition, Justice for App Workers, AP reports. CBS Local 2 reports that nine groups, representing 100,000 workers, formed the coalition to call for: “a living wage, a safe work...
Yesterday, NLRB prosecutors accused Amazon of violating federal labor law by threatening, interrogating and surveilling workers at a New York warehouse where a unionization effort was underway. According to the NLRB complaint, an Amazon consulting promised to solve...
In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and...
This morning, Mexico’s Labor Ministry announced that workers at one of General Motors’s largest pickup plants voted 3,214-2,623 to reject their union’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the company. The vote, carried out under the rules of the new United...
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 51-50 to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote. Abruzzo’s confirmation, preceded Tuesday by an equally divided,...
Despite increased demand for ridesharing services, many Lyft and Uber drivers are not back on the roads, CNBC reports. A number of factors explain why the companies’ driver capacities have fallen by approximately 40%. Some former drivers said that they remained...
As vaccine rollout begins, companies and industry groups have begun aggressively lobbying states to give their workers priority after health care workers and nursing home residents. Since each state has discretion regarding who will receive the second round of...
On Wednesday, rideshare drivers lost their case in California state court to restrict Uber from using its app to disseminate political messaging in favor of Proposition 22, a ballot measure bankrolled by several rideshare companies to reverse California’s decision...
Yesterday’s headlines were dominated by the ongoing confirmation battle over Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. At Wednesday’s hearing, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) grilled Barrett on, among other things, the Supreme Court’s controversial 2018 decision...
A California Court of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday from Uber, Lyft, and the State of California about whether the state can recognize drivers as employees with rights to certain benefits under the state’s law AB 5. The companies were ordered to comply...
Yesterday marked an eventful occasion for workers’ rights advocates in Sacramento, as California Governor Gavin Newsom moved on a number of major employment rights bills at his desk. Among other measures, Newsom signed legislation to require businesses of...