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Gig Companies Are Looking To Bypass Labor Laws Everywhere
Following win in California, talk of plans to undermine workers’ rights in the U.S. and abroad.
Following their successful propaganda campaign in California, in which Uber, Lyft, and other gig companies spent over $200 million to convince California voters that they deserve exemption from labor laws, a report from Megan Rose Dickey in TechCrunch confirms that they intend to continue this fight elsewhere:
“On Uber’s earnings call this week, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company would ‘more loudly advocate for laws like Prop 22’ throughout the U.S. and worldwide.”
The report also contains a quote from a group called Gig Workers Rising:
“Billionaire corporations just hijacked the ballot measure system in California by spending millions to mislead voters. The victory of Prop 22, the most expensive ballot measure in U.S. history, is a loss for our democracy that could open the door to other attempts by corporations to write their own laws.”
On a related side note: it appears that Biden’s transition team includes current employees of Lyft and Uber, among several other tech companies, according to a report from Ars Technica.
