More than 800,000 drivers for ride-hailing companies in California will soon be able to join a union and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits under a measure signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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.
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.
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