Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Uber’s Race to the Bottom
with
Bhairavi Desai, NYTWA Bhairavi Desai, NYTWA Executive Director
A NYS Administrative Law Judge upheld that Uber was the employer of
former drivers, all members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, who
won unemployment insurance claims in NYS. This ruling sets the stage for
other lawsuits in cases involving Uber’s assertion that its drivers are
independent contractors. This comes close after Uber’s loss in a massive
wage theft lawsuit filed by NYTWA and massive driver resistance to Uber
imposed fare cuts. Uber’s race to the bottom extends to all taxi workers by
its flooding the streets with drivers so that making a living entails countless
hours on the road. But Uber’s race to the bottom also extends to its
business model which many observers contend is not sustainable in light of
its continuing financial losses. And now Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was
forced to resign by its investors in a scandal exposing a workplace culture
of sexual harassment at Uber.
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How Seattle Uber Drivers Won the Right to Unionize
with
Jessica Descarieux, the Real News Network
Teamsters' Leonard Smith explains how drivers pushed for a bill that
grants them collective bargaining power for higher wages since some
full-time drivers only earn $3 an hour
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