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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.

6 min readNov 11, 2020

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.

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Kevin Breidenbach
Kevin Breidenbach

Written by Kevin Breidenbach

Mountain hermit, maker of strange noises. Deeply disturbed, but not surprised. He/him. https://mastodon.social/@noisenerd

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