California
Related: About this forum'Devastating Effects' of CA Prop 22 Begin as Albertsons Stores Move to Replace Unionized Drivers
With Gig Workers
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/05/devastating-effects-ca-prop-22-begin-albertsons-stores-move-replace-unionized
"Albertsons was happy to reap public goodwill during the pandemic. But once Prop 22 gave the company the option of replacing workers with lower-paid contractors, they jumped at the opportunity."
Unionized grocery delivery drivers with full-time benefits at California stores owned by Albertsons are set to be fired this month and replaced with "independent contractors" working under adverse conditions for third-party gig companies.
Progressives are attributing this erosion of workers' rights in the Golden State to the passage of Proposition 22, a corporate-funded ballot initiative approved by voters in November.
As the Economic Policy Institute explained last year, the passage of Prop 22 gave "digital platform companies a free pass to misclassify their workers" as independent contractors rather than employees, enabling them to exclude gig workers from basic employment protections including minimum wage, health insurance, and other benefits.
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mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Now, is this being reported elsewhere?
I have to ask cause ... you know.
Deuxcents
(15,777 posts)Did the voters understand this prop and its ramifications? Time to shop elsewhere
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)From what I gather, a global group called Consumer Choice Center, with an ever so woke & demographically targeted website, Promoted Uber & Lyft as their counterparts in Germany had done.
Here's the list of Prop 22 supporters:
https://drivers.yeson22.com/coalition/
Here's the link to Comsumer Choice Center
SNIP From the CCC site:
With
The Consumer Choice Center
During Berlins anti-Uber demonstrations, a small collective of activists put together a mini-protest to support Ubers ingenuity and show solidarity for its innovative vision. Slowly, a few more individuals joined their counter-protest, establishing their belief that consumers arent being taken into account.
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How CCC's support for Prop 22 got it's start:
"...many of us who had been in student activism for many years, some of us were in journalism, some of us were economists, or some of us dealt a little bit with policy regulation.
And we saw that there was a kind of growing move against awesome innovations that were happening.
...our origin story kind of goes back to the taxi protests in Berlin over the Uber app many years ago.
And the idea was that the invention of Uber and Uber being let loose on the streets of Berlin and throughout Germany was putting taxi drivers immediately out of work and therefore needed to be halted. That was the dominant narrative in the newspapers and most of the politicians speeches.
But there really wasnt any concentration on the people that Uber specifically benefited the most, which were normal consumers, you or I, or anyone whos ever downloaded the app or used it. And again, doesnt have to be Uber.
It can be Lyft in the United States, or we have Bolt in Estonia and throughout the EU. And thats when really we wanted to stand up.
So a few of my colleagues put together signs, put together a nice little mini protest and stating the taxi monopoly is so yesterday and stating that consumers actually love having these innovations.
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CONSUMER CHOICE WAS JUST ONE MAJOR PROPONANT OF PROP 22.
Someone should ask them how it's really working out for CA now!
They needed an adult in the room 🙄
#TheWokeBetterWakeUp