• Coolkidbozzy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    someone more knowledgeable than me please explain why he would do this after the companies successfully lobbied for the proposition to avoid giving rideshare drivers benefits, with the backing of kamala

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      7 days ago

      so two days ago he was playing fortnite on the nintendo switch, and because nintendo doesn’t use unions in their controller factories, the control sticks eventually start to drift over time. Like the butterfly effect, this caused Newsom to almost lose his #1 Victory Royale because when he got downed his character started moving all over the place, making it harder for his duo to actually get him up. This instantly turned him from 0.5 hitler to 0.4999 repeating hitler, and not wanting lyft and uber riders to have their drivers get wheel drift (driving into a wall bc they’re underpaid), he signed the bill, hoping people riding in ubers and lyfts get their own transportation #1 Victory Royale

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      The Service Employees International Union appears to be the ones who took the lead in “negotiations” with rideshare companies, who wanted lower insurance requirements from the state. They’re probably betting that gig workers are too atomized and disorganized to collectively bargain, and that the potential threat would be worth the lower insurance payouts.

      ofc the companies say that lower insurance requirements will reduce prices, but I am 100% positive that California’s uniquely high rideshare prices will remain and Uber/Lyft will just be taking a larger cut, meanwhile drivers who get into an accident on the job will be more likely to be screwed. Hopefully their calculation is wrong and the gig workers union gets off the ground.

      Oh and if the union gets any serious momentum they will 100% blame the union for high prices even though the high prices pre-date the union’s existence by years.

      • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        maybe its some sort of attempt to make the union pay for accidents with union fees? in the past they used to do shit like that