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Uber wants you to believe that the cost of paying drivers as employees is that you won’t be able to get a car in most places. This can’t be true. Uber replace
by alex_young 6y ago
Uber wants you to believe that the cost of paying drivers as employees is that you won’t be able to get a car in most places.
This can’t be true.
Uber replaced a poorly run system that actually covered most places and employed it’s labor force.
If Uber and other car services were forced to recognize their workforce as employees, there would be market incentives to support doing so.
American taxpayers pay for Uber and Lyft driver’s subsidized medical plans and other public benefits they receive because they are not paid as employees with the right to organize. Your ride may seem cheap, but you pay for it in your tax bill.
- skybrian 6y agoIf you mean taxi drivers, apparently they were usually contractors, until this new law was passed, anyway. https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-s-gig-work-law-targets-Uber-and-14565001.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-s-gi...
- alex_young 6y agoThanks for pointing this out - in SF there was an intentional effort to destroy the employee taxi driver system in the late 70s. This is talked about at length in the article you linked to. Many other places still have working employee systems for taxis. SF could too if they wanted to change this law.