{"id":28012,"date":"2019-08-31T10:57:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28012"},"modified":"2019-08-31T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:58:15","slug":"uber-and-lyft-just-lost-another-battle-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/08\/31\/uber-and-lyft-just-lost-another-battle-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber and Lyft just lost another battle in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VOX <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/8\/30\/20840563\/ab-5-uber-lyft-senate-vote-california\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Uber and Lyft just lost another battle in California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf AB 5 passes the full Senate, it would essentially disrupt a business model championed and cherished by Silicon Valley. Uber, Lyft, and other app-based gig companies rely on hundreds of thousands of independent contractors to give rides, deliver food, and complete other tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Reclassifying them as employees would change everything.<\/p>\n<p>Gig workers would get labor protections and benefits that all employees get, such as unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, paid parental leave, overtime pay, workers\u2019 compensation, paid rest breaks, and a guaranteed $12 minimum hourly wage. And, perhaps more importantly, they would be able to unionize.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is unfortunate that so many progressives think nothing of using Uber, Lyft, and the other services. They don&#8217;t seem to make the connection between the cheap prices and the suppression of wages for the drivers. Walmart and Amazon have the same attraction for people on a budget. I know I should go easy on the customers. I know I have the privilege of not needing to save money this way.  This gig economy is the way the oligarchs entice poor victims to take part in crushing the poor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOX has the article Uber and Lyft just lost another battle in California. If AB 5 passes the full Senate, it would essentially disrupt a business model championed and cherished by Silicon Valley. Uber, Lyft, and other app-based gig companies rely on hundreds of thousands of independent contractors to give rides, deliver food, and complete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28014,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012\/revisions\/28014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}