{"id":7288,"date":"2017-03-16T07:20:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T07:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/?page_id=7288"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:05:01","slug":"rideshare_justice_project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Rideshare Justice Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; gap=&#8221;15&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1734480308807{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: -30px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #cecece !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;6\/12&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1733715521601{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 5px 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regulators<\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"286;286;286;286\" data-offset-y=\"-158;-158;-158;-158\" data-animation=\"zoomInRight\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"10000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"30;30;30;30\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-leave-delay=\"13000\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-txt-white\">Sabotaging competitors<\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"255;255;255;255\" data-offset-y=\"-85;-85;-85;-85\" data-animation=\"zoomInRight\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"11000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"30;30;30;30\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-leave-delay=\"13000\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-txt-white\">Obstructing Justice<\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-7;-7;-7;-7\" data-offset-y=\"-144;-144;-144;-144\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" 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  <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"slide\"  data-class=\"\" data-id=\"\" data-animation=\"msSlide\" data-fade-animation=\"msSlide\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-easing=\"linear\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/06\/when-8-55-an-hour-is-not-8-55-an-hour\/\" data-link-target=\"_self\">\n                    <div class=\"slide_bg\" >\n                        <div  data-type=\"color\" data-color=\"rgb(247, 245, 245)\"><\/div><div  data-src=\"https:\/\/mljwjcbi4h5g.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/50s.v3.jpg\" data-type=\"image\" data-fit=\"percentage\" data-fit-x=\"100\" data-fit-y=\"100\" data-position=\"center center\" data-repeat=\"no-repeat\"><\/div>                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"layers\">\n                                                            <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"left;left;left;left\" data-align-vertical=\"top;top;top;top\" data-offset-x=\"5;5;5;5\" data-offset-y=\"36;36;36;36\" data-animation=\"zoomIn\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"1\" data-resizable=\"\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"30;30;30;30\" data-line-height=\"30;30;30;30\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-leave-delay=\"4000\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\"><h1><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong>When $8.55\/hr<br \/>Is Not $8.55\/hr!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"left;left;left;left\" data-align-vertical=\"top;top;top;top\" data-offset-x=\"-54;-54;-54;-54\" data-offset-y=\"36;36;36;36\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"4000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"1\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"16;16;16;16\" data-line-height=\"18;18;18;18\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-txt-dark\"><h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Read how the extraordinary costs<br \/>of self employment, combined with<br \/>the real dangers of driving,<br \/>invalidate\u00a0any comparison<br \/>of rideshare\u00a0wages to an<br \/>employee's earnings.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3><\/div>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"slide\"  data-class=\"\" data-id=\"\" data-animation=\"msSlide\" data-fade-animation=\"msSlide\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-easing=\"linear\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/21\/ubers-elusive-profit\/\" data-link-target=\"_self\">\n                    <div class=\"slide_bg\" >\n                        <div  data-type=\"color\" data-color=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\"><\/div><div  data-src=\"https:\/\/mljwjcbi4h5g.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Dara.jpg\" data-type=\"image\" data-fit=\"percentage\" data-fit-x=\"100\" data-fit-y=\"100\" data-position=\"center center\" data-repeat=\"no-repeat\"><\/div>                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"layers\">\n                                                            <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-8;-8;-8;-8\" data-offset-y=\"177;177;177;177\" data-animation=\"bounceInRight\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"bounceOutLeft\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"1000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"25;25;25;25\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-leave-delay=\"3500\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Hey investors, is Uber's profit in ridesharing?<\/span><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-9;-9;-9;-9\" data-offset-y=\"177;177;177;177\" data-animation=\"bounceInRight\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"bounceOutLeft\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"3500\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"25;25;25;25\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-leave-delay=\"6000\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Or maybe its in\u00a0 self driving vehicles huh?<\/span><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-9;-9;-9;-9\" data-offset-y=\"177;177;177;177\" data-animation=\"bounceInRight\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"bounceOutLeft\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"6000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"25;25;25;25\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-leave-delay=\"8500\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Oh wait, maybe it's in food delivery<\/span><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-1;-1;-1;-1\" data-offset-y=\"177;177;177;177\" data-animation=\"bounceInRight\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"bounceOutLeft\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"8500\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"25;25;25;25\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-leave-delay=\"11000\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Hey, under here, the future is flying taxis!<\/span><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-9;-9;-9;-9\" data-offset-y=\"177;177;177;177\" data-animation=\"bounceInRight\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"bounceOutLeft\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"11000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"25;25;25;25\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-leave-delay=\"13500\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Or it's under here, electric scooters and bikes!<\/span><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-link=\"http:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/21\/ubers-elusive-profit\/\" data-target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"button\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-10;-10;-10;-10\" data-offset-y=\"170;170;170;170\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"0\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"13600\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"15;15;15;15\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-leave-delay=\"19000\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-btn-red\">Read how Uber's Pivoting keeps investors coughing up the cash <\/div>\n                          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data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\">Accidents<\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"173;173;173;173\" data-offset-y=\"-76;-76;-76;-76\" data-animation=\"bounceInRight\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1500\" data-leave-animation=\"rotateOut\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1500\" data-delay=\"9000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"55;55;55;55\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\"384;384;384;384\" data-leave-delay=\"10700\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\">Hospital Bills<\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-102;-102;-102;-102\" data-offset-y=\"-55;-55;-55;-55\" data-animation=\"bounceInLeft\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1500\" data-leave-animation=\"rotateOut\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1500\" data-delay=\"10000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"55;55;55;55\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\"384;384;384;384\" data-leave-delay=\"11700\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\">Police Enforcement<\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-8;-8;-8;-8\" data-offset-y=\"-80;-80;-80;-80\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"0\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"2000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"30;30;30;30\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\"center;center;center;center\" data-width=\"498;498;498;498\" data-leave-delay=\"5000\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\"><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Bamboozled state governments <br \/>ignore rideshare problems...<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"229;229;229;229\" data-offset-y=\"-74;-74;-74;-74\" data-animation=\"bounceInRight\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1500\" data-leave-animation=\"rotateOut\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"500\" data-delay=\"11000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"55;55;55;55\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\"384;384;384;384\" data-leave-delay=\"12700\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\">Siphoned Transit Ridership<\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-8;-8;-8;-8\" data-offset-y=\"-80;-80;-80;-80\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"14000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"1\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"30;30;30;30\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\"center;center;center;center\" data-width=\"498;498;498;498\" data-leave-delay=\"19000\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\"><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><b>So some\u00a0 cities take things into their own hands...<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-link=\"http:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/14\/when-states-set-the-rules-for-ridesharing-cities-are-left-with-the-consequences\/\" data-target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"button\" data-align-horizontal=\"center;center;center;center\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-30;-30;-30;-30\" data-offset-y=\"124;124;124;124\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"500\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"14000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"24;24;24;24\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-leave-delay=\"19000\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-btn-blue\">Learn More<\/div>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"slide\"  data-class=\"\" data-id=\"\" data-animation=\"msSlide\" data-fade-animation=\"msSlide\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-easing=\"linear\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/29\/sad-labor-lesson-pooper\/\" data-link-target=\"_blank\">\n                    <div class=\"slide_bg\" >\n                        <div  data-type=\"color\" data-color=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\"><\/div><div  data-src=\"https:\/\/mljwjcbi4h5g.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pooper.gif\" data-type=\"image\" data-fit=\"contain\" data-position=\"right center\" data-repeat=\"no-repeat\"><\/div>                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"layers\">\n                                                            <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"left;left;left;left\" data-align-vertical=\"top;top;top;top\" data-offset-x=\"-97;-97;-97;-97\" data-offset-y=\"20;20;20;20\" data-animation=\"zoomInLeft\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"5000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"1\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"20;20;20;20\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\"center;center;center;center\" data-width=\"183;183;183;183\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\"><h3>Two witty marketing professionals discover the smelly side of the \"gig economy\"<\/h3><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-link=\"#http:\/\/wp.me\/p8d3O9-1xp\" data-target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"button\" data-align-horizontal=\"right;right;right;right\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"282;282;282;282\" data-offset-y=\"0;0;0;0\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"8000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"1\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\";;;\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-btn-blue\">Read More<\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"left;left;left;left\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-95;-95;-95;-95\" data-offset-y=\"90;90;90;90\" data-animation=\"zoomInLeft\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"7000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"20;20;20;20\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\"center;center;center;center\" data-width=\"181;181;181;181\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\"><h3><strong>---<br \/><\/strong>19th century labor problems resurface in today's tech revolution<\/h3><\/div>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"slide\"  data-class=\"\" data-id=\"\" data-animation=\"msSlide\" data-fade-animation=\"msSlide\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-easing=\"linear\" data-link=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p8d3O9-1xp\" data-link-target=\"_blank\">\n                    <div class=\"slide_bg\" >\n                        <div  data-type=\"color\" data-color=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\"><\/div><div  data-src=\"https:\/\/mljwjcbi4h5g.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Finished-cesar.png\" data-type=\"image\" data-fit=\"contain\" data-position=\"right center\" data-repeat=\"no-repeat\"><\/div>                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"layers\">\n                                                            <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"right;right;right;right\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"396;396;396;396\" data-offset-y=\"-136;-136;-136;-136\" data-animation=\"fadeInUp\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"0\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"25;25;25;25\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\"center;center;center;center\" data-width=\"232;232;232;232\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer\">Where Is The Cesar Chavez Of The Ride Share World?<\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"left;left;left;left\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-3;-3;-3;-3\" data-offset-y=\"-72;-72;-72;-72\" data-animation=\"zoomInLeft\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"3000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\";;;\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-txt-dark\"><em>Arbitration Agreements<\/em><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"left;left;left;left\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-21;-21;-21;-21\" data-offset-y=\"-7;-7;-7;-7\" data-animation=\"zoomInLeft\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"5000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\";;;\" data-line-height=\"22;22;22;22\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\"219;219;219;219\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-txt-dark\"><em>+ Independent Contractor<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0Classification<\/em><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"left;left;left;left\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-19;-19;-19;-19\" data-offset-y=\"-43;-43;-43;-43\" data-animation=\"zoomInLeft\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"4000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\";;;\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\";;;\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-txt-dark\"><em>+ Class Action Waivers<\/em><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"left;left;left;left\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-23;-23;-23;-23\" data-offset-y=\"29;29;29;29\" 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data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\";;;\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-width=\"259;259;259;259\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-txt-dark\"><strong><em>= A Perfect Storm of Worker<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0Exploitation<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-link=\"#http:\/\/wp.me\/p8d3O9-1xp\" data-target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"button\" data-align-horizontal=\"left;left;left;left\" data-align-vertical=\"bottom;bottom;bottom;bottom\" data-offset-x=\"9;9;9;9\" data-offset-y=\"10;10;10;10\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"1000\" data-delay=\"8000\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"1\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\";;;\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\";;;\" data-class=\"mpsl-layer mpsl-btn-blue\">Read More<\/div>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"slide\"  data-class=\"\" data-id=\"\" data-animation=\"msSlide\" data-fade-animation=\"msSlide\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-easing=\"linear\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/12\/season-of-the-switch\/\" data-link-target=\"_blank\">\n                    <div class=\"slide_bg\" >\n                        <div  data-type=\"color\" data-color=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\"><\/div><div ><\/div><div  data-type=\"video\" data-src-mp4=\"http:\/\/ridesharejustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DALTON3.mp4\" data-src-webm=\"\" data-src-ogg=\"\" data-loop=\"false\" data-mute=\"true\" data-fillmode=\"fit\" data-cover=\"false\" data-cover-type=\"\" data-autoplay=\"true\"><\/div>                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"layers\">\n                                                            <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"right;right;right;right\" data-align-vertical=\"top;top;top;top\" data-offset-x=\"-11;-11;-11;-11\" data-offset-y=\"41;41;41;41\" data-animation=\"fadeInLeft\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"0\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"35;35;35;35\" data-line-height=\";;;\" data-text-align=\"center;center;center;center\" data-width=\"385;385;385;385\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-sub-header-dark  mpsl-layer mpsl-txt-white\"><strong><em>\"Season Of The Switch\"<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n                                                                    <div class=\"layer\"  data-type=\"html\" data-align-horizontal=\"left;left;left;left\" data-align-vertical=\"middle;middle;middle;middle\" data-offset-x=\"-48;-48;-48;-48\" data-offset-y=\"-15;-15;-15;-15\" data-animation=\"fadeInUp\" data-timing-function=\"linear\" data-duration=\"1000\" data-leave-animation=\"auto\" data-leave-timing-function=\"linear\" data-leave-duration=\"0\" data-delay=\"1500\" data-resizable=\"1\" data-dont-change-position=\"\" data-hide-width=\"\" data-font-size=\"20;20;20;20\" data-line-height=\"20;20;20;20\" data-text-align=\"center;center;center;center\" data-width=\"145;145;145;145\" data-white-space=\"normal;normal;normal;normal\" data-class=\"mpsl-sub-header-dark  mpsl-layer\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">In 5 years, rideshare hiring practices have admitted a growing number of social misfits &amp;\u00a0predators. \u00a0<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Gone are the days of happy fist-bumping drivers.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n                                                              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He left behind a wife and 2 children with no means of support.<\/span><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1752588556827{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-alex-habibs-loved-ones\">Click here to donate to Alex&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">gofimdme <\/span>account.<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221;][vc_column][vc_separator color=&#8221;purple&#8221; style=&#8221;double&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1583345547751{margin-top: -20px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #cecece !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1537363798073{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1621407735919{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/roomykhan\/2017\/05\/11\/uber-a-paradigm-shifting-unicorn-do-the-rules-not-apply\/?sh=c884107197e1\">Uber &#8211; A Paradigm Shifting Unicorn: Do The Rules Not Apply?<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;However, recent misbehavior, such as (Theranos), circumventing regulators (Uber), attempting to silence reporters (Uber), misogynistic culture (Uber), trying to infringe on intellectual property (Uber) and spying to thwart competition (Uber), all behoove the question: Do the rules not apply to Unicorns?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Roomy Kahn, Forbes Contributor<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1621407963266{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postbulletin.com\/opinion\/columnists\/gig-companies-thrive-by-evading-the-law\/article_1ca5e3ce-a565-11e8-87c9-eb8c091c13cc.html\">Gig Companies Thrive By Evading The Law<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;This isn\u2019t a battle to turn back the clock on technology and innovation, nor is it about denying worker freedom or employer control. It is about economic justice.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Veena Dubal, associate professor of law UC Hastings College of Law<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1603124989538{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public-accountability.org\/report\/silicon-valley-billionaires-spend-millions-manufacturing-consent-for-uber-lyft-in-wny\/\">Silicon Valley billionaires spend millions manufacturing consent for Uber &amp; Lyft in WNY<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;While Uber and Lyft and the lobbying groups and politicians backing them are trying to portray their public relations campaign as a grassroots movement of people and businesses who want ridesharing in Western New York, it is not in actuality about the grass roots or sharing. It is a sophisticated and cynical effort to manipulate public opinion and manufacture consent via a network of corporate lobbying organizations and the politicians beholden to them. The campaign is the work of billionaires \u2013 like Uber CEO Travis Kalanick \u2013 spending millions of dollars to convince Western New Yorkers to allow the exploitation of local workers so they can extract money back to the Silicon Valley.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Robert Galbraith, Public Accountability Initiative<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600179742571{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/download.cnet.com\/blog\/download-blog\/how-uber-puts-passengers-in-danger-by-doing-cheaper-background-checks\/\">How Uber and Lyft are putting passengers in danger by choosing cheaper background checks for drivers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;<\/em><em>&#8220;The background checks used by Uber and Lyft to screen potential drivers leave large loopholes for a dangerous felon to give you your next ride.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Shelly Brown, Associate Writer at CNET&#8217;s download.com<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1640703021480{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labor.ucla.edu\/publication\/more-than-a-gig\/\">More Than A Gig: A Survey Of Ride-Hailing Drivers In Los Angeles<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Drivers are facing financial hardship. 44% of drivers report difficulty paying for work expenses such as gas, insurance, and car maintenance. 55% of drivers would prefer to earn a set hourly wage after expenses.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Institute For Research On Labor And Employment. UCLA Labor Center<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600179782141{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"r\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poseidon01.ssrn.com\/delivery.php?ID=484029088111000008076111091000126072016089038039060053007118014027100111086069091109010114056102019017037122121028072092006118048032033082076107119102120080111003108007092010067124084090119120079081116013080125123068109010027084009074030067074066113085&amp;EXT=pdf\">The Taking Economy: Uber, Information, And Power<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Sharing economy firms have the ability to monitor and channel behavior of all participants and may be using this capacity to everyone\u2019s<br \/>\ndetriment but their own.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Ryan Calo &amp; Alex Rosenblat Columbia Law Review<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600179796737{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-article-header__hed\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2018\/09\/uber-south-africa\/567979\/\">Driving for Uber When You Can\u2019t Afford a Car<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;In South Africa, extreme inequality means that drivers have a much more difficult time turning a profit with the ride-share service. Critics,&#8230;. along with many Uber drivers, believe that Uber unfairly profits at the expense of the workers who make its service possible in South Africa.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Kimon De Greef, The Atlantic<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1605769155838{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-article-header__hed\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/82w2z91j\">Disruptive Transportation:<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Phil\/Downloads\/2017_UCD-ITS-RR-17-07.pdf\">The Adoption, Utilization, and Impacts of<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Phil\/Downloads\/2017_UCD-ITS-RR-17-07.pdf\">Ride-Hailing in the United States <\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;After using ride-hailing, the average net change in transit use is a 6% reduction among<br \/>\nAmericans in major citie.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>We find that 49% to 61% of ride-hailing trips would have not been made at all, or by walking,<br \/>\nbiking, or transit.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Institute of Transportation Studies \u25e6 University of California, Davis<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600179829117{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/uber-and-the-labor-market-uber-drivers-compensation-wages-and-the-scale-of-uber-and-the-gig-economy\/\"><span class=\"title-presub\">Uber and the labor market<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"subtitle\">Uber drivers\u2019 compensation, wages, and the scale of Uber and the gig economy<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The Uber driver W-2 equivalent hourly wage is roughly at the 10th percentile of all wage and salary workers\u2019 wages, meaning Uber drivers earn less than what 90 percent of workers earn. The Uber driver W-2 equivalent hourly wage falls below the mandated minimum wage in the majority of major Uber urban markets (13 of 20 major markets, which include 18 cities, a county, and a state).<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600179854123{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_21349 c47b4 a756e none\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/work\/1394763\/the-black-car-fund-is-an-important-model-for-how-portable-benefits-could-work\/\">A fund for NYC drivers models how benefits could work in the gig economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;When you hop in an Uber or hail a cab, your driver is most likely an independent contractor, and thus unable to receive the traditional benefits and protections that many workers receive from their employer.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Natalie Foster, advisor to the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative &amp;\u00a0<\/em><em>David Rolf founding president of SEIU 775.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600179871516{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_21349 c47b4 a756e none\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/promarket.org\/uber-kill-real-cost-ride-sharing\/\">The Cost of Convenience:<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/promarket.org\/uber-kill-real-cost-ride-sharing\/\">Ridesharing and Traffic Fatalities<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Not only does the introduction of ride-sharing seem to not reduce congestion, it actually increases the number of car registrations by 3 percent. Most importantly, Barrios et al. find that the introduction of ride-sharing increases the number of\u00a0<b>fatal accidents<\/b>\u00a0by 3 percent (in the aggregate, this is equivalent to 987 extra lives lost every year in the United States alone).<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">John M. Barrios, University of Chicago, Yael V. Hochberg, Rice University and NBER Livia Hanyi Yi, Rice University<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655844025086{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/gig-economy-dpd-courier-taylor-review\">The gig economy is being fuelled by exploitation, not innovation<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The mistake made in so much of the debate surrounding the gig economy is to assume it is a modern issue caused by digital technology. It is not. Gig economy companies succeed because of how they apply, or fail to apply, long-standing and robust employment law.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">James Temperton, WIRED Opinion<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655844083574{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/feature\/americans-are-more-vulnerable-than-ever-and-the-gig-economy-isnt-helping\">Americans Are More Vulnerable Than Ever, And The Gig Economy Isn\u2019t Helping<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The gig economy, no matter its size, is a symptom of a larger problem: Workers aren\u2019t making enough, and have nothing else to fall back on.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Monica Putts, Talking Points Memo<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600179921342{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/troymedia.com\/2018\/11\/11\/uber-utter-disrespect-social-norms\/\">Uber\u2019s utter disrespect for social and business norms<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The problem isn\u2019t Uber or any other ride-sharing company. The soft spot is us as users of those services. Uber et al do only what we enable them to do. And whatever their sins, they\u2019re only a symptom, not a cause, of our social architecture shattering into micro-particles.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Peter Stockland, Cardus<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600179936120{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodjobsfirst.org\/blog\/report-wage-theft-pervasive-corporate-america\">Grand Theft Paycheck: The Large Corporations Shortchanging Their Workers\u2019 Wages<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cWashington, DC\u2014A new report finds that many large corporations operating in the United States have boosted their profits by forcing employees to work off the clock, cheating them out of required overtime pay and engaging in similar practices that together are known as wage theft<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Philip Mattera, Good Jobs First &amp; Jobs With Justice Education\u00a0Fund<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600179952438{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/texas-workforce-commission-labor-regulators-lobbyists-rewrite-rule-gig-economy\/\">How Silicon Valley Lobbyists Secretly Pushed Texas Regulators to Rewrite the Rules of the Gig Economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cDocuments show that lobbyists for Handy.com dictated a rule to the Texas Workforce Commission that would give legal shelter to gig economy companies who don\u2019t want to treat workers like employees.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Justin Miller, The Texas Observer<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1640703299937{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/19\/nyregion\/nyc-taxis-medallions-suicides.html?action=click&amp;module=MoreInSection&amp;pgtype=Article&amp;region=Footer&amp;contentCollection=More%20From%20The%20Times\">\u2018They Were Conned\u2019: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cBut a New York Times investigation found much of the devastation can be traced to a handful of powerful industry leaders who steadily and artificially drove up the price of taxi medallions, creating a bubble that eventually burst. Over more than a decade, they channeled thousands of drivers into reckless loans and extracted hundreds of millions of dollars before the market collapsed..<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Brian M. Rosenthal, New York Times<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600179989312{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/the-sharing-economy-was-always-a-scam-68a9b36f3e4b\">The Sharing Economy Was Always a Scam<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cSharing\u2019 was supposed to save us. Instead, it became a Trojan horse for a precarious economic future.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Sharing was supposed to transform our world for the better. Instead, the only thing we\u2019re sharing is the mess it left behind.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Susan Cagle, onezero.medium.com<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1640703410446{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uberpeople.net\/threads\/uber-and-lyft-drivers-reveal-what-they-wish-they-knew-before-signing-up-to-work-for-the-apps.340417\/\">Uber and Lyft drivers reveal what they wish they knew before signing up to work for the apps<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c*Vehicle damage can add up quickly<br \/>\n<\/em><em>*Riders will take their time<br \/>\n<\/em><em>*Figuring out a schedule that works for you can be tricky<br \/>\n<\/em><em>*Know your numbers<br \/>\n<\/em><em>*Going to the restroom isn\u2019t always easy<br \/>\n<\/em><em>*Taxes can get complicated \u2026<br \/>\n<\/em><em>*It\u2019s a lonely job<br \/>\n<\/em><em>*Not all riders know the rules<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Graham Rapier, Business Insider<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180022599{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2019\/05\/uber-ipo-profitability-value-labor-costs\">Uber Is a Scam<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cAs\u00a0Lacy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/conversations\/2017\/6\/30\/15900544\/uber-travis-kalanick-harassment\">put it<\/a>\u00a0in an interview soon after Kalanick\u2019s ouster, \u2018The thing that\u2019s gonna kill Uber has nothing to do with who\u2019s at the company, has nothing to do with scandals, has nothing to do with any of this. The thing that\u2019s gonna kill Uber is when Uber finally has to charge what it costs to get a car to you.&#8217;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Doug Henwood, JACOBIN<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180048178{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/opinion\/openforum\/article\/Open-Forum-Driving-for-Uber-Lyft-GrubHub-and-14123731.php?psid=ez0Wp\">Driving for Uber, Lyft, GrubHub and others is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe fatality rate for Uber and Lyft drivers is 14.6 per 100,000 full-time workers, with percentile rank 19.4. This indicates that 80.5% of jobs have lower fatality risks and 19.3% have higher fatality risks. For GrubHub drivers, the non-fatality rate is 205.7 per 10,000 with percentile rank 9.0; the fatality rate is 24.8 per-100,000 with percentile rank 10.6. My estimates also indicate that Uber and Lyft drivers face fatal risks that are 1.1 and 2.6 times the fatality rate for police officers and firefighters. The corresponding estimates for GrubHub drivers are 2.0 and 4.4.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Paul Leigh, professor emeritus Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602264725143{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ridester.com\/uber-fees\/\">Uber Fees: How Much Does Uber Pay, Actually? (With Case Studies)<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201c<\/em>According to the San Francisco-based study, the median commission that drivers lost out on over the course of 37 rides was around 39.01 percent \u2014 much higher than the 25 percent claim that Uber makes.<br \/>\nFurther, a majority of the Uber drivers that participated in the study earned less than $10 on a majority of their rides. After you factor in additional automobile and other independent contractor expenses, you\u2019ll quickly see your effective hourly wage decrease \u2014 especially on shorter rides.<em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ridester.com<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180081171{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ladot.lacity.org\/sites\/g\/files\/wph266\/f\/LADOT%20Taxi%20and%20FHV%20Final%20Report%20-%20DRAFT%20for%20distribution_0.pdf\">Ladot Taxi And For-Hire Vehicle Study<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe growth of shared and on-demand mobility over the last decade has presented challenges for urban transportation and policy. While this growth in Transportation modes is expanding the number of mobility options available to Angelenos, it is also impacting congestion, impacting the incumbent taxicab industry, and thus, requires attention.\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Sam Schwartz Engineering, For The Los Angeles Department Of Transportation<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180100710{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s27147.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Policy-Brief-On-Demand-Covered-Workers-Compensation.pdf\">On-Demand Workers Should Be Covered By Workers\u2019 Compensation<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cOn-demand jobs are among the most dangerous in the country. In particular, for-hire transportation, the largest segment of on-demand work, is a very hazardous industry. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs are killed on the job at a rate five times higher than the average for all other workers. They are among the highest risk of all jobs for occupational fatalities from homicides and motor vehicle accidents.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>National Employment Law Project<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180118301{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/promarket.org\/ubers-academic-research-program-how-to-use-famous-economists-to-spread-corporate-narratives\/\">Uber\u2019s \u201cAcademic Research\u201d Program: How to Use Famous Economists to Spread Corporate Narratives<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cUber\u2019s employees co-authored academic papers with brand name scholars that were then used to back the company\u2019s PR and lobbying strategy. Published in respected journals, those articles are based on proprietary data and non-replicable analysis. Moreover, they all don\u2019t discuss the subsidies that make it possible for Uber to pursue market dominance despite its endless losses<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180145588{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/promarket.org\/false-claims-and-propaganda-why-ubers-narratives-are-wrong-but-successful\/\">False Claims and Propaganda: Why Uber\u2019s Narratives Are Wrong But Successful<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cUber\u2019s narratives reduce everything to emotive battles between good and evil.\u00a0If Uber\u2019s success is inevitable, and resistance is futile, no one needs to waste time examining any actual economic or financial data.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Hubert Horan,\u00a0Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1682457118142{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/laborcenter.berkeley.edu\/what-do-we-know-about-gig-work-in-california\/\">What Do We Know About Gig Work in California? An Analysis of Independent Contracting<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cSimilarly, the motivations for doing independent contractor work are likely varied and more complex than the prevailing narrative of individuals actively choosing self-employment for flexibility or self-fulfillment.18 In low-wage occupations in particular, workers such as janitors employed by subcontractors may be forced to accept independent contractor status, even though they are clearly employees.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, &amp; Institute for Research on Labor and Employment<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180593083{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportenvironment.org\/sites\/te\/files\/T%26E_Europe%20s%20giant%20taxi%20company%20is%20Uber%20part%20of%20the%20problem%20or%20the%20solut...%20%281%29.pdf\">Europe\u2019s giant \u2018taxi\u2019 company: is Uber part of the problem or the solution?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe real-world data suggests that today Uber-like services bring more emissions and congestion, and an incentive for people who did not use cars before to do so. While cities like London and Paris have been pursuing the objective over the past 15 years of reducing car trips, the arrival of Uber and the increase in the number of taxi-like PHV services have done little to reduce car activity in cities and the uptake of Uber licenses coupled with the requirements for relatively new high mileage cars suggests that additional car trips have been added to the city streets where they operate. We estimate that only in three cities, the emissions of Uber services could be as high as half a megatonne of CO2, equivalent to the emissions of a quarter of a million privately owned cars. In the UK, taxi and taxi-like services CO2 emissions have grown 23% since 2012.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, &amp; <\/em><em>Yoann Le Petit &amp;\u00a0Thomas Earl,\u00a0Transport &amp; Environment<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602265019476{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.arb.ca.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-12\/SB%201014%20-%20Base%20year%20Emissions%20Inventory_December_2019.pdf?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">Clean Miles Standard <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.arb.ca.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-12\/SB%201014%20-%20Base%20year%20Emissions%20Inventory_December_2019.pdf?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">2018 Base-year Emissions Inventory Report<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c\u2026it is estimated that in 2018, almost 38.5 percent of total TNC Vehicle Miles Traveled in California was deadhead miles.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>(Figure 12) demonstrates that the TNC vehicles on average travel roughly 10 miles per hour slower than their California vehicle fleet counterparts. This can impact the TNC fleet average in-use fuel economy relative to that of the California passenger fleet.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>California Air Resources Board<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180630269{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centernyc.org\/the-magnitude-of-low-paid-gig-and-independent-contract-work-in-new-york-state\">The Magnitude of Low-Paid Gig and Independent Contract Work in New York State<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cEarnings are so low for self-employed unincorporated independent contractors that over a quarter (27 percent) are covered by Medicaid while 20 percent do not have any health insurance coverage. The occupational fatality rate for self-employed workers is over three times as great as it is for private payroll employees.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>The New School\u2019s Center For New York City Affairs<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602263845105{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/27\/opinion\/uber-covid-gig-economy.html\">Opinion: Uber Rides Cost More? OK<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cMany gig-based business models help customers take advantage of workers. Let\u2019s stop giving tech companies a free ride.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Americans are willing to spend extravagantly on their smartphones. Now it\u2019s time they also spent a little more on the artificially low-paid labor those phones have made possible.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The gig economy has become a part of our daily routines. But workers shouldn\u2019t have to bear the brunt of a business model that works only when they are exploited.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Editorial Board Of The New York Times<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180665433{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/features\/uber-lyfts-fight-over-gig-worker-status-as-campaign-against-labor-activists-mounts\/\">&#8216;A totally different ballgame&#8217;: Inside Uber and Lyft&#8217;s fight over gig worker status<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cWe&#8217;ve seen a lot of disinformation as a service campaigns,&#8221; says Zarine Kharazian, assistant editor at the Atlantic Council&#8217;s Digital Forensic Research Lab, who reviewed the anti-AB5 network&#8217;s social media activity for CNET. &#8220;This seems to be targeted harassment as a service, which is an adjacent but distinct phenomenon.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Dara Kerr, CNET<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180682026{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/jgxazk\/they-arent-anything-without-us-gig-workers-are-striking-throughout-latin-america?\">&#8216;They Aren\u2019t Anything Without Us&#8217;: Gig Workers Are Striking Throughout Latin America<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cGig workers around the world are facing dangerous conditions and unstable income due to the pandemic. The Fairwork Project, part of the Oxford Internet Institute, published a study in April on the impact of Covid-19 on gig economy workers. The study found no evidence of companies acknowledging worker demands or collaborating with independent worker associations. To the contrary, they found instances of platforms trying to suppress worker efforts to organize.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Martha Pskowski, Vice<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1643014983992{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/labor\/how-uber-and-lyft-are-buying-labor-laws\/\">How Uber and Lyft Are Buying Labor Laws<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cCalifornia\u2019s Prop 22 could set back labor standards, particularly for nonwhite workers, for decades.<br \/>\nIf Prop 22 passes, it would reach far beyond a couple hundred thousand drivers in California working in food delivery and ride-hailing. It would send shock waves all over the country, becoming the basis for a formalized tier of substandard labor that would certainly be exported, across numerous industries and millions of workers, and internationally as well.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Alex Sammon, American Prospect<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602956618028{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/nov\/20\/food-delivery-bike-couriers-in-australia-being-underpaid-by-up-to-322-a-week\">Food delivery bike couriers in Australia being underpaid by up to $322 a week<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201c<strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: (The Young Workers Centre) Survey reveals almost all are paid per delivery and a quarter of riders have been in an accident.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The survey found that the average age of riders is 26, while three-quarters are temporary visa holders such as international students, or people on working holiday or bridging visas. Just one in 10 surveyed was an Australian citizen.<br \/>\nOne-quarter of surveyed couriers had been in an accident, with one in eight sustaining injuries such as concussions, knee injuries, broken bones or dislocations.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Paul Karp, The Guardian Australia<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1643015017771{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/10\/16\/latest-election-stunt-proves-uber-and-lyft-are-their-own-worst-political-enemies\/\">Latest Election Stunt Proves Uber and Lyft are Their Own Worst Political Enemies<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cNone of Prop 22\u2019s offerings come close to what drivers will receive if voters reject it and drivers remain regular employees instead of independent contractors. Even worse, Proposition 22 would lock in these serf-like conditions, since it will require an unprecedented 88 percent vote by the state legislature and the governor\u2019s signature to change it.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Steven Hill , author of Raw Deal: How the Uber Economy and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655845273721{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/how-uber-lyft-and-other-gig-companies-won-an-election-but-still-could-lose-the-vote-2020-11-24\">Opinion: How Uber, Lyft and other gig companies won an election but still could lose the vote<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUber is one such company that has invested far more in hiding from its risks than confronting them head-on \u2014 a strategy that will only cost the company in the long run.<br \/>\nThe road ahead for Uber, Lyft and other gig-economy companies including Postmates, and DoorDash still runs through their ability to tackle these long-term workplace tensions that are inherent in their business models \u2014 and they won\u2019t cruise to long-term success by spending hundreds of millions of dollars every time their business models are challenged. The scrutiny will not subside, and these companies would be wise to show their commitments to long-term solutions.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dieter Waizenegger, executive director of CtW Investment Group<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655845337438{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/06\/opinion\/prop-22-california-labor-law.html\">Opinion: Other States Should Worry About What Happened in California<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cLegislatures and voters should beware. Prop 22 codified a system that denies workers full benefits, true minimum wage guarantees and stability \u2014 guarantees that are especially crucial during the coronavirus pandemic. In California, gig companies overwhelmed voters and drivers with relentless and often disingenuous ads, text messages, push notifications, emails and even fliers along with their food deliveries touting the benefits of the measure, while outspending their opponents more than 10 to one.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Greg Bensinger, Editorial Board, New York Times<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846222679{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2020\/12\/19\/uber-lyft-business-model-proposition-22-worker-benefits\/\">The broken business model of Uber and Lyft is taking a heavy toll on society<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cOne study found that if their California drivers had been classified as employees rather than contractors these last five years, Uber and Lyft would have paid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laborcenter.berkeley.edu\/press-release-what-would-uber-and-lyft-owe-to-the-state-unemployment-insurance-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than $400 million<\/a>\u00a0into the state unemployment insurance fund alone. Instead, California taxpayers have had to foot the bill for the significant wage and benefit gaps created by these companies.\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Steven Hill, author of &#8220;Raw Deal&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847755249{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/160764\/instacart-grubhub-doordash-pandemic-parasites\">Instacart Is a Parasite and a Sham<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cAllowing masses of underpaid workers to be exploited in order to provide widespread convenience was always a depraved bargain, built on a rickety ethical and economic foundation.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Jacob Silverman, The New Republic<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1682457264666{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/iscience\/fulltext\/S2589-0042(20)31130-5\">The impact of Uber and Lyft on vehicle ownership, fuel economy, and transit across U.S. cities<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We estimate effects of Uber\/Lyft market entry on U.S. urban areas<br \/>\nVehicle registrations per capita increase by 0.7% on average<br \/>\nEffect on registrations is larger in car-dependent and slow-growth cities<br \/>\nTransit displacement is larger in cities with high income or fewer children&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul id=\"ulist0010\" class=\"ce-list--remove-bullets\"><\/ul>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Jeremy Michalek\u00a0&amp; Staff-Carnegie Mellon University<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847520617{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2021-02-17\/gig-economy-coming-for-millions-of-u-s-jobs-after-california-s-uber-lyft-vote\">The Gig Economy Is Coming for Millions of American Jobs<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cNow Uber, after successfully reshaping culture and politics to accommodate its business model, is bending unions, too. Labor groups have to take seriously the prospect that if they don\u2019t come to the table, the companies will write the laws themselves, as they did with Prop 22.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg Businessweek<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848466567{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2021\/01\/23\/study-taking-an-app-taxi-more-than-doubles-your-roadway-impact\/\">Study: Taking An App Taxi More than Doubles Your Roadway Impact<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cIn every region in the study, the customers of transportation network companies at least doubled their total vehicle miles travelled compared to the modes they told researchers they would have taken had Uber and Lyft not been around. <\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Kea Wilson STREETSBLOG USA, Bruce Schaller, Schaller Consulting<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847617488{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equaltimes.org\/uber-s-uk-u-turn-the-exploitative#.YGXWY-hKhhF\">Uber\u2019s UK U-turn<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cthe exploitative gig economy employment model is not dead but it may be at an inflection point&#8230;<br \/>\nProper classification of workers determines the workplace protections an individual is entitled to and the nature of collective labour rights available to them. Yet, it is often left to workers and unions to fight for these basic rights in court against well-funded and belligerent companies. <\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ruwan Subasinghe, Equal Times<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848081258{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newframe.com\/part-one-why-the-gig-economy-must-be-regulated\/\">Why the gig economy must be regulated<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cIf you look at the history of labour, the idea of workers having a permanent job, what the International Labour Organization calls decent work, with benefits, with a voice, a union, is something that was won through struggle over a number of decades. What we are seeing here with the gig economy is really a going back to a despotic form of labour relations.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Musawenkosi Cabe, New Frame<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848143434{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/texaslawyer\/2021\/03\/29\/2021-the-year-of-reckoning-for-uber-and-ride-hailing\/\">2021: The Year of Reckoning for Uber and Ride-Hailing<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cSo this will truly be a year of reckoning for the ride-hailing industry, one that has been allowed to operate for a decade in a manner that many, and now the U.K.\u2019s highest court agrees, have felt to be inequitable. We are going to witness a perfect storm of a fractured business model, inflamed public opinion, and a legal system that may have finally had enough.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Aaron Solomo<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>n, Law.com<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848552202{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/workplace\/tough-gig-urgent-regulation-of-on-demand-work-economy-needed-20210316-p57b6j.html\">Opinion<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/workplace\/tough-gig-urgent-regulation-of-on-demand-work-economy-needed-20210316-p57b6j.html\">Tough gig: urgent regulation of on-demand work economy needed<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cFor almost a decade, wealthy and powerful global tech companies have evaded employment protection regulation in Australia by using digital labour platforms to hire vulnerable workers as independent contractors.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The federal government can no longer ignore unregulated work in the gig economy, which has created an underclass of exploited workers who are putting their lives on the line to earn a living.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Dr. Michael Rawling and Professor Joellen Riley Munton, UTS Law<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848701521{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/unfortunate-economic-uber-rideshare-taxi\">Uber\u2019s disastrous economic cocktail: Manipulating supply and demand<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cSomeone call a taxi for Uber, it&#8217;s got drunk and needs to go home.<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Matthew Beedham, Shift<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848819809{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noahpinion.substack.com\/p\/why-has-the-gig-economy-been-a-disappointment\">Why has the gig economy been a disappointment?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cGig economy mania faded when it became apparent that the business model didn\u2019t make sense for a lot of things \u2014 \u201cUber for X\u201d just didn\u2019t work for most values of X. And thus, an industry that was supposed to transform the face of the U.S. labor market ended up doing very little in terms of changing the way people work&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Noah Smith, Noahpinion<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847232544{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfpublicpress.org\/california-failed-to-consistently-track-ride-hailing-assault-and-harassment-complaints\/\">California Failed to Consistently Track Ride-Hailing Assault and Harassment Complaints<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cSince California legalized ride-hailing in 2013, hundreds of passengers have filed lawsuits alleging driver misconduct. Uber and Lyft say safety problems are rare.<br \/>\nThe agency responsible for regulating the ride-hailing industry in California has failed to collect consistent data on claims of assaults, threats and harassment on Uber and Lyft rides, a San Francisco Public Press investigation found.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Seth Rosenfeld, San Francisco Public Press<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848913316{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalandmain.com\/inside-the-secretive-world-of-union-busting-labor-focused-academics-targeted-for-their-research\">Inside the Secretive World of Union Busting: Labor-Focused Academics Targeted for Their Research<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cResearchers in the field have been the target of legal threats and lawsuits, onerous public records requests and misinformation campaigns from union avoidance consultants, business executives, corporate lawyers and conservative think tanks.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Jo Constantz, Capital &amp; Main<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847037079{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/analyticsindiamag.com\/big-tech-and-their-ignorance-of-gig-workers-safety\/\">Big Tech And Their Ignorance Of Gig Workers\u2019 Safety<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cIt comes without a doubt that front line and blue-collar workers around the globe are scared for their safety. Delivery workers have always had a tough job. Between mitigating fluctuating pay, horrid weather conditions, tiresome robot generated routes, time pressure and disrespectful customers, driving has been associated with one of America\u2019s most dangerous jobs.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Avi Gopani, Analytics India Magazine<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846622914{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2022\/02\/gig-prop-22-flexibility-contractors-anti-racism-social-justice-lyft-uber-instacart\">Gig Companies Are Disguising Exploitation as Social Justice<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cFrom California to Massachusetts, companies like Uber and Lyft are promoting legislation that misclassifies gig workers. What\u2019s worse, they\u2019ve convinced some people that their pursuit of cheap labor is actually a crusade for equality.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Akil Vicks, Jacobin<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846545898{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfpublicpress.org\/utilities-agency-admits-more-problems-in-tracking-ride-hailing-assaults\/\">Utilities Agency Admits More Problems in Tracking Ride-Hailing Assaults<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cSusan B. Sorenson, a professor of social policy at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied the epidemiology and prevention of sexual assault, commenting on the Public Press\u2019 findings last fall, said the commission had not followed standard practice of using clear definitions necessary for gathering reliable data. She also questioned whether the agency possessed flawed data for years and &#8216;apparently didn\u2019t notice.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Seth Rosenfeld, San Francisco Public Press<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846390798{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doctorow.medium.com\/the-big-lie-that-keeps-the-uber-bezzle-alive-8d6e8c0ccde7\">The Big Lie That Keeps The Uber Bezzle Alive<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cUber is (still) a bezzle (&#8216;the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it&#8217;). And every bezzle \u2014 <em class=\"li\">every<\/em>\u00a0bezzle \u2014 ends.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Corey Doctorow, Pluralistic.net<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1660793267872{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doctorow.medium.com\/the-big-lie-that-keeps-the-uber-bezzle-alive-8d6e8c0ccde7\">Death And Corporate Irresponsibility In The Gig Economy:An Urgent Safety Crisis<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cCorporations like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart have transformed transportation and meal delivery, but have done so by exploiting their workers on the job. Their growth-at-all-costs model has repeatedly failed to address the most tragic human cost of their business: loss of life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Action Center for Race and the Economy \/ Gig Workers Rising \/ PowerSwitch Action \/ Working Partnerships USA<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1701215115849{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lensherman\/2023\/01\/16\/ubers-new-math-increase-prices-and-squeeze-driver-pay\">Uber\u2019s New Math: Increase Prices And Squeeze Driver Pay<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c<\/em>According to tracking data from YipitData, Uber\u2019s number of US ridehail trips in Q3 2022 decreased 29% from pre-pandemic Q3 2019 levels, offset by the price hike of 41% over the same period. In essence, Uber has traded off decreased ridehail demand (as measured by number of trips) in exchange for increased revenue and profitability.<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Len Sherman, Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1682456550909{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/dy7mpa\/pay-algorithms-make-working-in-the-gig-economy-feel-like-gambling-study-says\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pay Algorithms Make Working in the Gig Economy Feel Like &#8216;Gambling,&#8217; Study Says<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201c&#8217;Algorithmic wage discrimination allows firms to personalize and differentiate wages for workers in ways unknown to them, to behave in ways that the firm desires, perhaps as little as the system determines that they may be willing to accept,&#8217; Dubal writes. The wages are &#8216;calculated with ever-changing formulas using granular data on location, individual behavior, demand, supply, and other factors,&#8217; she adds.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Roshan Abraham, Vice Media Group<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1682456400482{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2023\/04\/report-uber-lyft-contributed-massively-to-sf-gridlock-pollution\/\">Report: Uber, Lyft contributed massively to SF gridlock, pollution<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cSan Francisco, the city that spawned Uber and Lyft, has also suffered the most in emissions and congestion from them, according to a first-of-its-kind, state-wide study of ride-hailing activity released by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Yujie Zhou, Reporter, Mission Local, San Francisco<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1684692656223{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/institute1.bofa.com\/C?q=e4-Jpdevawg&amp;t=ada\">Has the gig economy peaked?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cAfter a threefold rise during the pandemic, the share of Bank of America customers that received gig-type income through direct deposits or debit cards slipped to 2.7% in February 2023, from a high of 3.3% in March 2022. Is the peak of the gig economy now behind us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Anna Zhou &amp; Taylor Bowley, Economists, Bank of America Institute<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1696464976597{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/articles\/entry\/unrigging_the_gig_economy#\">Unrigging the Gig Economy<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cHow badly do platform companies treat their workers? A recent study rated most major firms zero on a 10-point scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Stanford Social Innovation Review- Authors: Jill Habig, Public Rights Project &amp; Veena Dubal, principal investigator for Fairwork US and professor of law at the University of California, Irvine &amp; Mishal Khan sociologist and a postdoctoral fellow with Fairwork US.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1701214640940{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/opinion\/157743\">My experience trying to negotiate with Uber<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cAfter working with people in unusual employment situations for a decade, I thought I had seen it all as a union organiser. Then I began dealing with Uber. The extent to which Uber will go to avoid playing by the rules is unprecedented in the Netherlands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>\u00a0Amrit Sewgobind, Euobserver<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1702256066260{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eocampaign1.com\/web-version?p=dc5c7b76-95b3-11ee-a84f-153eb3779272&amp;pt=campaign&amp;t=1702129994&amp;s=8a773d49b08b96f9f934f45c27865dd06305eae280d069d08d1d73b53bd20d3a\">Investigation: Understanding rider accidents and accident insurance<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWe went out onto the streets of the Basque city to engage riders directly, at their place of work, about their experiences of accidents and accident insurance. In total, we interviewed more than 30 riders.<br \/>\nWhat we found is that most accidents occur among &#8216;<span class=\"eo-link-wrapper\">riders sin papeles<\/span>&#8216;; workers without legal residency in Spain, who work through Glovo or Uber Eats rented accounts (Just Eat riders have employment contracts in Spain, so they all have to prove legal status). The most common estimate on the streets was that 70-75% of riders in Bilbao were working undocumented, and they also work the longest hours, often doing 16 hours-a-day on weekends, when demand is highest. The more hours you spend on the street, the more likely you are to be involved in an accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ben Wray, Gig Economy Project co-ordinator<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1710967688155{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dli.mn.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/TNC_driver_earnings_analysis_pay_standard_options_report_030824.pdf\">Transportation Network Company Driver Earnings Analysis and Pay Standard Options <\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cFor all Greater Minnesota drivers, gross hourly pay for passenger time (P3) averaged $46.42, gross hourly working time (P1 + P2 + P3) pay averaged $22.03 and net after-expense pay averaged $9.28 per working hour. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Minnesota Department Of Labor And Industry. March 8,2024<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1711518963486{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/es20BBJ5Yn\">Humanising food delivery work in Australia <\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c\u201cWe immigrants do the jobs that Australians don\u2019t want to. You don\u2019t see Australians doing Uber Eats\u2026 I\u2019ve only seen Brazilians, Indians, Colombians, some Europeans\u2026 being an immigrant in Australia comes with a lot of fear of breaking the rules, of not being able to survive economically&#8230; and they take advantage of that. That\u2019s why platforms have the luxury of paying $5 per order, because there is so much demand from [international] students.\u201d Anita Lawyer, Colombia&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Tyler Riordan, Richard N.S. Robinson, &amp; Gerhard Hoffstaedter. UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, Australia<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1714323003656{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/04\/27\/metro\/peril-behind-wheel\/?event=event12\">Debate over how to classify rideshare drivers isn\u2019t just about pay. It\u2019s also about their safety.<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe rideshare companies argue that contractor status allows their drivers to maintain independence and flexibility. It also protects the companies\u2019 bottom lines. Edwards cites numbers from an upcoming state auditor\u2019s report showing that, based on drivers\u2019 $1.4 billion in gross earnings in Massachusetts last year, the companies avoided paying some $47 million to unemployment insurance, family medical leave, and other contributions required of companies with employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Yvonne Abraham, Columnist, Boston Globe<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1741758100364{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoconnectedcar.com\/2024\/06\/obi-rideshare-report-reports-rideshare-price-rollercoaster\/\">Obi Rideshare Report <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoconnectedcar.com\/2024\/06\/obi-rideshare-report-reports-rideshare-price-rollercoaster\/\">Rideshare Price Rollercoaster<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Uber-Flation And The Rideshare Price Rollercoaster:<\/li>\n<li>Uber Underestimates Trip Duration.<\/li>\n<li>Rideshare Prices Have Spiked And Stayed High In New York City:<\/li>\n<li>Uber and Lyft Are Making More Per Ride in New York City:<\/li>\n<li>Drivers Take Less Share Of Every Ride:<\/li>\n<li>Consumers Are Frustrated By Ride Prices And Less Loyal.<\/li>\n<li>Consumers Will Wait Longer To Pay Less.<\/li>\n<li>Competition Brings Greater Price Stability.<\/li>\n<li>The High Cost of Rain. .<\/li>\n<li>Consumers Need Incentives To Take Green Rides.<\/li>\n<li>Politeness Pays.<\/li>\n<li>Eager for Driverless Cars.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Free OBI report PDF download available<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Bryan Jonston, Auto Connected Car News<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727756218165{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"epi-fontLg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20240930494017\/en\/Carnegie-Mellon-Study-Finds-Ride-Hailing-Technology-Mitigates-Impact-of-Racial-Discrimination\">Carnegie Mellon Study Finds Ride-Hailing Technology Mitigates Impact of Racial Discrimination<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The study builds on prior research that concluded using a Black-sounding name results in up to double the cancellation rate as when using a White-sounding name, but despite that substantial difference, wait times for a ride were the same or differed by mere seconds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Abby Verret, Carnegie Mellon College Of Engineering<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1732216554055{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/retailwire.com\/uber-lyft-supreme-court-california-labor-law\/\">Uber &amp; Lyft Denied Chance To Contest California Labor Law. Here\u2019s What That Means<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Uber &amp; Lyft Drivers Can Now Sue. Reuters reported that on Monday, Oct. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider Uber and Lyft\u2019s appeal to cases filed by the state of California on behalf of drivers who agreed to settle legal problems with the ride-hailing businesses out of court in an ongoing legal battle over their contractor status.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Bernadette Giacomazzo, Retail Wire<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1735096377774{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ridefair.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Legislated-Poverty.pdf\">Legislated Poverty<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Under current City and Provincial regulations Toronto\u2019s ride-hail drivers\u2019 median pay is an estimated $6.37-$10.60\/hour, a collective annual loss of up ~$200 million\/year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">A report by RideFairTO Coalition&amp; Rideshare Drivers Association of Ontario<\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1741039925305{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metro-magazine.com\/10234560\/reports-examine-transforming-workforce-development-for-the-transportation-indust?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20250116_1706:678956a9440e6a48e0002858:ot_NL-MET-Express-Thursday-20250116&amp;omid=1004753661&amp;cid=63699439c9833befca0552f5\">Reports Examine Transforming Workforce Development for the Transportation Industry<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A 2022 survey revealed that 96% of transit agencies of all sizes are experiencing workforce challenges, and 84% said these shortages are impacting their ability to provide service. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Starr Writers Metro Magazine<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1748550634430{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: 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!important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"entry-title feature-title fw-bold my-1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/599414-uber-collapse-across-south-africa.html\">Uber collapse across South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Uber is experiencing significant issues across South Africa, with users reporting safety concerns, being overcharged, drivers cancelling trips, and poor-quality cars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Garrin Lambley<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1751699179583{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/transportation\/uber-shared-route-buses\/\">Uber\u2019s new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who\u2019s taken a bus<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;Beyond the jokes about Uber inventing bus lines are serious questions about what its shuttle service will mean for struggling transit systems, air quality, and congestion.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Sophie Hurwitz, Grist<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1754802759061{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/06\/business\/uber-sexual-assault.html\">Every Eight Minutes: Uber&#8217;s Alarming Sexual Violence Problem<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;The company has tested tools that make rides safer, court records show. Measures to stem the violence have been set aside in favor of protecting the company\u2019s business.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Emily Steel, New York Times<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1756262069942{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"m-hero-article-img__title f-h1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/ideas\/ideas-podcast-how-uber-disrupted-washington-dc\">How Uber disrupted Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for how to deal with intransigent regulators and to win in the realm of local politics. The city already serves as the nation\u2019s capital. Now, D.C. is also the blueprint for how Uber conquered cities around the world\u2014and explains why so many embraced the company with open arms.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Katie J. Wells, Declan Cullen &amp; Kafui Attoh, Princeton University Press<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1761092703921{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2025\/10\/is-uber-eats-a-recession-indicator\/\">Is Uber Eats a recession indicator?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2025\/10\/is-uber-eats-a-recession-indicator\/\">I know how unpredictable consumers can be<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;By requiring delivery drivers to deliver both no- or low-profit orders, platforms like Uber Eats ensure that customers who can\u2019t \u201cafford\u201d the service (meaning that they have enough cash for the meal but not the tip) will feel that they can. With a \u201cdelivery fee\u201d that doesn\u2019t actually go to the driver, and the fact that there\u2019s never a shortage of drivers willing to run a 40-minute order for $3, it lets the user think that everyone\u2019s getting a deal. In truth, it costs the driver more money to refuse such an order \u2014 which would lower the payout of\u00a0<i>subsequent\u00a0<\/i>orders \u2014 than to simply take the $3 for this one hour\u2019s work, in hopes of earning $18 the next.\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Alexander Sorondo, UnHerd<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1766077213851{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h2_article css-i2risw\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/the-game-behind-the-gig-economy\/\">The Game Behind the Gig Economy<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;Gig companies understand what drives addictive behavior, attempting to disguise hard work as play and dependency as freedom. They have engineered their designs so effectively that the more sinister aspects of gamification may go relatively unnoticed by everyday gig workers. <\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>George Augustus Bachmann, Tech Policy Press<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1771328711559{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h2_article css-i2risw\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etuc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publication\/file\/2026-02\/ETUC%20Manual%20OSH.pdf\">Platform Work Is Dangerous<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;A study for the European Trade Union Confederation examines what health &amp; safety risks platform workers face in Europe and how to tackle them. A study by the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses) in France on the food delivery sector came to a similar conclusion. Anses found that while 26.4% of riders had suffered an accident at work, this number rose to 46.2% when the riders were working on a self-employed basis.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ben Wray, Gig Economy Project co-ordinator<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1775356501249{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"post-title published title-X77sOw\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phoebewallhoward.substack.com\/p\/shes-the-lawyer-from-detroit-playing\">Powerhouse lawyer from Detroit plays a key role in Uber, Lyft sexual assault lawsuits<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;These ride share sexual assault cases are about the conflict we face as a society,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cThese companies have completely transformed the way we get around, allowing people to make money and allowing people to get places \u2014 but it comes with dangers. We believe, and have proven, that companies responsible could do something about these dangers. With great power comes great responsibility.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Phoebe Wall Howard, Substack<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1537363815291{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180706845{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2015\/12\/uber-sharing-economy-taskrabbit-silicon-valley-technology\">Why We Fight Uber<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cIn many ways, this is like the fight of the Luddites (machine smashers) two hundred\u00a0years ago at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. While the Luddites were fighting the way technology was used to further exploit rather than liberate workers, they were and are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412\/?no-ist\">misrepresented<\/a>\u00a0as simply being afraid of and opposing technology.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Michael Rozworski, JACOBIN<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1728267066906{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2018\/09\/uber-misclassification-gig-economy-taxi-workers-alliance\">Uber&#8217;s Big Lie<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Uber\u2019s business model isn\u2019t based on new technology, but corporate greed and worker exploitation that has been aided and abetted by a political system that has failed to hold the company accountable to basic employment standards&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Chris Brooks, staff writer at Labor Notes<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655843794918{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/labour\/ola-uber-and-the-precarious-future-of-blue-collar-platform-workers\">Ola, Uber and the Precarious Future of Blue Collar Platform Workers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The digital platform economy excels in creating an illusion of &#8216;micro entrepreneurship&#8217; without any legal obligation to ensure job or income security. While the popular media narrative has restricted this issue to cab-hailing companies, the problem lies with the very structure of such labour platforms that ignores the rightful obligations of the aggregator platform.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ira Anjali Anwar, The Wire<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180741528{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"css-ifnb0o ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/09\/nyregion\/uber-nyc-vote-drivers-ride-sharing.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fginia-bellafante&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=undefined&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=7&amp;pgtype=collection\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Uber and the False Hopes of the Sharing Economy<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;While Uber promotes itself as a way for drivers to earn extra money to fund their dreams, in truth, most drivers in New York City work full time&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ginia Bellafante, reporter, critic and columnist for the New York Times<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180780018{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"post-title-to-print\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nelp.org\/publication\/uber-state-interference\/\">Uber State Interference: How TNC\u2019s Buy, Bully, And Bamboozle Their Way To Deregulation<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;TNCs have successfully adopted state interference, an antidemocratic legislative practice favored by the gun and tobacco industries and popularized by the ultraconservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), in order to rewrite the law.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Rebecca Smith, National Employment Law Project<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1603213036139{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"post-title-to-print\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2016\/03\/uber-airbnb-sharing-economy-housing-tech\/\">The Sharing Economy\u2019s Dirty Laundry<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Simply put, there are huge rewards for companies that can fake it until they make it, and bankruptcy for those who air their dirty laundry honestly. And tech start-ups are the biggest fakers of all.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Tom Slee, Jacobin<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180797079{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"post-title-to-print\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.relats.org\/documentos\/FT.SIND.GU.UNIgigeconomy.pdf\">Towards A Fairer Gig Economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Instead, the great marketing hype of new corporations in the \u2018gig economy\u2019 masks many new ways in which they exploit their employees. This is a great concern for the future of society, and especially for the well-being of us all as workers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Mark Graham &amp; Joe Shaw<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180818437{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"post-title-to-print\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duo.uio.no\/bitstream\/handle\/10852\/60423\/MA-Geitung.pdf?sequence=1\">Uber drivers in Cape Town:\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duo.uio.no\/bitstream\/handle\/10852\/60423\/MA-Geitung.pdf?sequence=1\">Working conditions and worker<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duo.uio.no\/bitstream\/handle\/10852\/60423\/MA-Geitung.pdf?sequence=1\">agency in the sharing economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\"><em>&#8220;Following this, the platforms dependency of network effects also affected drivers work, by constructing the app in favour for riders over drivers. This forced drivers to adapt their work to the demands of riders, constantly chasing good ratings and enduring racist and unpleasant<br \/>\nriders. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>A Thesis By\u00a0Ine Geitung<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180834049{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"post-title-to-print\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/uber-cant-be-ethical-its-business-model-wont-allow-it-85015\">Uber can\u2019t be ethical \u2013\u00a0its business model won\u2019t allow\u00a0it<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Figuring that Uber\u2019s app explains its growth is like putting the birthday cake\u2019s appeal down to the candle on top. The engine of Uber\u2019s growth to date has been the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/uber#\/entity\">US$11.5 billion<\/a>\u00a0it has raised from banks and investors.\u00a0&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/murray-goulden-103466\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"fn author-name\">Murray Goulden\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1635139633379{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"post-title-to-print\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/schallerconsult.com\/rideservices\/emptyseatsfullstreets.pdf\">Empty Seats, Full Streets<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/schallerconsult.com\/rideservices\/emptyseatsfullstreets.pdf\">Fixing Manhattan&#8217;s Traffic Problem <\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;While hours spent transporting passengers showed a large increase, unoccupied hours grew even more quickly. Taxis spent 34,000 unoccupied hours in the CBD in 2013, decreasing to 29,000 in 2017. Meanwhile, TNCs added 37,000 unoccupied vehicle hours. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Bruce Schaller Schaller Consulting<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655843936737{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steven-hill.com\/the-uber-way-of-precarious-work\/\">The \u201cUber Way\u201d of precarious work<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;So German taxi drivers and small owners are right to fear an Uber invasion. In so many ways, ridesharing has taken the US backwards. It will do the same in Germany, or anywhere else in Europe, if it is not properly regulated. We need to vigorously educate ourselves about the pluses and minuses of platform capitalist companies, and decide how to regulate their services so that we can enjoy the benefits without suffering so many of the severe downsides.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Steven Hill<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180865829{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"a-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/john-mcdonnell-gig-economy-workers-rights-uber-deliveroo\">Labour&#8217;s gig economy fix shows why Uber and Deliveroo could be great news for workers&#8217; rights<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Fix Uber, and you might just fix the whole taxi industry. This is a sentiment that rings true for the whole gig economy: for critics of the sector, the perceived worker exploitation is nothing new. What is new is that there\u2019s finally an opportunity, and political will, to do something about it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>James Temperton, WIRED<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1635139497111{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2817653\">Uber as For-Profit Hiring Hall: A Price-Fixing Paradox and its Implications<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The point of this paper is that even if Uber is not legally the employer of Uber drivers, Uber drivers ought to be permitted to engage in price coordination so long as Uber is permitted to set prices.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Sanjukta Paul,\u00a0BERKELEY JOURNAL OF EMPLOYMENT &amp; LABOR LAW\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180899667{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ridester.com\/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make\/\">How Much Does an Uber Driver Make in 2018? [The Inside Scoop]<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Many of these rates are below minimum wage, especially after you factor in car costs and other driving-related expenses. It\u2019s a pretty good bet they spend more than $0.34 in gasoline per hour. They also have wear and tear and depreciation on their cars that will eat substantially into their hourly earnings. In fact, at these rates, I would bet they\u2019re not making any money at all, they are probably losing money every hour they drive.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Staff: Ridester.com<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180915360{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/mumbai-news\/a-catch-22-debt-trap-for-ola-uber-cab-drivers\/story-83OpKnG71wWm7ErTZL8lJJ.html\">A Catch-22 debt trap for Ola, Uber cab drivers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;I had to pay my cab EMI of \u20b910,000 today, but the cheque has bounced as there were insufficient funds in my account. This is all because the company has reduced the per-kilometre fare paid to us and my cab is off-road the past week&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Kailash Korde,\u00a0Hindustan Times<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180930150{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/ubers-arbitration-policy-comes-back-to-bite-it-in-the-a-1830892372\" data-id=\"\">Uber&#8217;s Arbitration Policy Comes Back to Bite It in the Ass<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Over 12,000 Uber drivers found a way to weaponize the ridesharing platform\u2019s restrictive contract in what\u2019s possibly the funniest labor strategy of the year.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Bryan Menegus, Gizmodo<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655844563483{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aau2670\">Do transportation network companies decrease or increase congestion?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Using data scraped from the application programming interfaces of two TNCs, combined with observed travel time data, we find that contrary to their vision, TNCs are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>American Association For The Advancement Of Science<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180947074{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilo.org\/wcmsp5\/groups\/public\/---dgreports\/---dcomm\/---publ\/documents\/publication\/wcms_645337.pdf\">Digital Labour Platforms And The Future Of Work<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"image-element\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cHow do the workers fare?<br \/>\n\u25a0 The ILO survey finds that on average across the five platforms, in 2017, a worker earned US$4.43 per hour when only paid work was considered, and US$3.31 per hour when total paid and unpaid hours were considered.<br \/>\n\u25a0 Median earnings were lower, at just US$2.16 per hour when paid and unpaid work were considered.<br \/>\n\u25a0 Nearly two-thirds of American workers surveyed on the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform earned less than the federal minimum wage of US$7.25 per hour; only 7 per cent of German workers surveyed on the Clickworker platform reported earnings above the German minimum wage of \u20ac8.84 per hour,taking into consideration paid and unpaid hours of work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Janine Berg * Marianne Furrer * Ellie Harmon * Uma Rani * M Six Silberman\u00a0<\/em><em>The International Labor Organization<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180968596{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/the-growing-use-of-mandatory-arbitration-access-to-the-courts-is-now-barred-for-more-than-60-million-american-workers\/\">The growing use of mandatory\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/the-growing-use-of-mandatory-arbitration-access-to-the-courts-is-now-barred-for-more-than-60-million-american-workers\/\">arbitration: Access to the courts is now barred for more than 60 million American workers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cMandatory arbitration discourages employees from bringing claims when their rights are violated.<br \/>\nAttorneys who represent employees are less likely to take on clients who are subject to mandatory arbitration (Colvin 2014), given that arbitration claims are less likely to succeed than claims brought to court, and, when damages are awarded, they are likely to be significantly smaller than court-awarded damages (Colvin and Gough 2015). Attorney reluctance to handle such claims effectively reduces the number of claims that are brought since, in practice, relatively few employees are able to bring employment law claims without the help of an attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Alexander J.S. Colvin,\u00a0Economic Policy Institute<\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600180987443{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregreview.org\/2019\/04\/01\/the-future-of-workplace-regulation\/\">The Future of Workplace Regulation<br \/>\nSeries Of Essays<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Ratcheting Up Workplace Protection\u00a0<\/strong>April 1, 2019 | David Weil, Brandeis University<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Joint-Employment Standard in Limbo\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>April 2, 2019 | Moshe Z. Marvit, The Century Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Labor without Employment\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>April 3, 2019 | Alexander Kondo, U.S. Department of Labor, and Abraham Singer, Loyola University Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Regulating Non-Compete Agreements\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>April 4, 2019 | Najah A. Farley, National Employment Law Project<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Future Looks Bright for the Right-to-Work Movement\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>April 5, 2019 | Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr., National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Regulating Work in an Age of Fissuring and Automation\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>April 8, 2019 | Cynthia Estlund, New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Who Are Gig Economy Workers?<\/em><\/strong><em>April 9, 2019 | Deepa Das Acevedo, University of Alabama<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Is the Fiduciary Rule Dead?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>April 10, 2019 | Gregory F. Jacob, O\u2019Melveny &amp; Myers LLP<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Conflicting Interpretations of Worker Classification\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>April 11, 2019 | Sean Burke, University of Pennsylvania\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Penn Program on Regulation, <\/em><em>University of Pennsylvania Law School<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181005460{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/uber-and-the-labor-market-uber-drivers-compensation-wages-and-the-scale-of-uber-and-the-gig-economy\/\">Uber and the labor market:<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/uber-and-the-labor-market-uber-drivers-compensation-wages-and-the-scale-of-uber-and-the-gig-economy\/\">Uber drivers\u2019 compensation, wages, and the scale of Uber and the gig economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThere has been much hype around Uber and the gig economy. But in our assessment, in any conference on the future of work, Uber and the gig economy deserve at most a workshop, not a plenary.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181018421{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/597745\/the-gig-economy-screws-over-everyone-but-the-bosses-across-canada\">The Gig Economy Screws Over Everyone But the Bosses<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThis shows that although millennials and Gen Z are trying to make the best of their situation, the vast majority aren\u2019t cobbling together side hustles by choice\u2014they would swap freedom and flexibility for stability and job security in a heartbeat.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Anne Gaviola, Vice<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181036905{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/humanimpact.org\/hipprojects\/driving-away-health\/?strategy=research\">Driving Away Our Health: The Economic Insecurity of Working for Lyft and Uber<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe unpredictability of ride-hail driving fuels economic insecurity, which is bad for health. Lyft and Uber maintain a constantly shifting dynamic for drivers as the companies decrease driver earnings per ride, add new drivers to their platforms, and eliminate the promise of flexibility in when and where to drive. As a result, drivers live in a state of chronic stress, driving for low pay with unpredictable earnings and a lack of control while driving\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Human Impact Partners &amp; Rideshare Drivers United<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181053483{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/mayor\/Press%20Room\/Press%20Releases\/2019\/October\/TNPCongestionReport.pdf\">Transportation Network Providers And Congestion In The City Of Chicago<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe negative environmental and social impacts of traffic congestion include increased air pollution, lost time commuting for residents and increased traffic collisions. While Transportation Network Providers (TNPs), or ride-hailing services, are not the sole reason for increasing congestion and gridlock in Chicago, our analysis shows that they are a significant contributing factor warranting action.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Lori E. Lightfoot, Mayor Of Chicago<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602264850370{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/watermark.silverchair.com\/kww062.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAlgwggJUBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggJFMIICQQIBADCCAjoGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMtrO2AQUz7NtGQ3pMAgEQgIICCzIB3GMbDJkm_EOPZLl_ArVp9Zg62wA2FNYNdiRXzW_RAX0aacAJF3pY3V4O8kHN0v2fd25E1abf5gkOL0fHZYpqS_rdQPb_YALdnnaYE_UTHCYZDAL3MwFTD33HTCekXjSxz2EzlDqkxkd0CmJ8T_M86geuQ-oMVfDmiiNl6PkPzLF7ovrj5C9JXmceQtWZ62et3VUcJSt3DyrrXKjX20omam0KJjyD8npjmkIFRcTXUrwQUNrNr_tMh4ImxXvwImLT4OYWJt1EkFuRXjxZxNdPabPJnA6ufCeLSm47l2TJ0DSOf3d3XaNxfU5meLTRYU2dKn2NK2Rw_qsUteQROuN3dzHcANKed1F0rPgx7RjhiOxcMd9PLkrV8mdqt_LpdPm6FmkDbNnepVdys3qNssIFcKHeixa6ibI5bs9p3GgTuGcTVn-_B5F80jKjQJV2SVF-DJcLpOb7V6jegAGQOQ2JxrHu_vAcQpwKY1aMl-oeMQr390yM3nGXtCuRRulJUMaZC6TVwyKEOM7cBNlRYd6l1A1WeDxnOQ6fJ6L9jcCjupGi7OwGsc_aO3vNyu3SZ_I-4vrm4Y78E_xWdRcNVSDvR8WCgmfUbU6bcVX0P-S0-O34k-m-FIhQ-oDau_PpUBaUzolRWCxC77bNBDq7sW8MRrUaB_KqSVbrJePw0024OpuQL5PiSFyG6CE\">Uber and Metropolitan Traffic Fatalities in the United States<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cGiven the convenience and low cost, Uber has been characterized as a potential countermeasure for reducing the estimated 121 million episodes of drunk driving and the 10,000 resulting traffic fatalities that occur annually in the United States.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>We found that the deployment of Uber services in a given metropolitan county had no association with the number of subsequent traffic fatalities, whether measured in aggregate or specific to drunk-driving fatalities or fatalities during weekends and holidays.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Noli Brazil &amp; David S. Kirk,\u00a0American Journal of Epidemiology<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655845426113{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/grogonomics\/2019\/jan\/24\/all-flexibility-no-security-why-conservative-thinktanks-are-wrong-on-the-gig-economy\">All flexibility, no security: why conservative thinktanks are wrong on the gig economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cWorkers in the gig economy are treated as independent contractors despite some working effectively full-time.<br \/>\nAll flexibility, no security is great for companies, not so great for workers \u2013 despite what conservative think tanks might want you to believe.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Greg Jericho, Columnist The Guardian Australia<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181094331{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportenvironment.org\/publications\/how-much-does-uber-really-cost\">How much does Uber really cost?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportenvironment.org\/publications\/how-much-does-uber-really-cost\">Uber adds to pollution and congestion in US cities and in Europe too<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>Uber is adding more polluting car trips to already-clogged European cities such as London and Paris, new analysis suggests \u2013 contributing to air pollution and climate change and exploding the company\u2019s sustainability claims.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The analysis estimates that in London and Paris alone, the emissions of Uber taxi services could be as high as half a megatonne of CO2. This is equivalent to adding the CO2 emissions of an extra 250,000 privately owned cars to the road.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Sandra Riano, Transport &amp; Environment<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655844733525{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campaignlive.co.uk\/article\/uber-everything-wrong-disruption\/1440077\">Uber is everything that is wrong with disruption<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUber\u2019s business model is predicated not on technological disruption but on breaking rules. And, having grown through skirting regulation, it doesn\u2019t matter who you put in charge now \u2013 Uber ain\u2019t gonna change.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Andy Pemberton, director of Furthr<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181107835{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/promarket.org\/the-uber-bubble-why-is-a-company-that-lost-20-billion-claimed-to-be-successful\/\">The Uber Bubble: Why Is a Company That Lost $20 Billion Claimed to Be Successful?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThere is no real innovation in the company\u2019s business model, he argues. Its market share is the product of predatory pricing and gigantic subsidies, not of higher productivity.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Hubert Horan, Stigler Center at the University of Chicago<\/em>\u00a0Booth School of Business<\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181129945{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/09\/11\/gig-economy-has-costs-we-can-no-longer-ignore-them\/\">The gig economy has costs. We can no longer ignore them.<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201d But the gig economy \u2014 and the absence of worker protections that come with it \u2014 is nothing short of a modern-day sharecropping business. And the model costs California $7 billion annually in lost tax revenue. It puts businesses that abide by the law at a competitive disadvantage.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Lorena Gonzalez, California Assembly<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181159521{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inequality.org\/research\/uber-drivers-death-misclassifying-workers\/\">The gig economy has cost: An Uber Driver\u2019s Death Shows the Harms of Misclassifying Workers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWith the proliferation of rideshare services and other on-demand delivery platforms, more workers are driving for a living. Transportation incidents are consistently the most frequent cause of fatal occupational injuries, accounting for 2,077 deaths on the job in 2017 \u2013 or 40 percent of all occupational fatalities for the whole year. Given this high risk, it\u2019s particularly egregious for Uber, Lyft, and other \u201cgig economy\u201d companies to misclassify workers as independent contractors and deny them the basic protections of workers\u2019 compensation as well as OSHA coverage.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Yasin Khan, UC Berkeley\u2019s Labor Occupational Health Program<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181177033{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sfpublicpress.org\/news\/2020-01\/dumped-on-the-highway-passengers-fought-uber-secrecy-in-court\">Dumped on the Highway, Passengers Fought Uber Secrecy in Court<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c[The case] illustrates Uber\u2019s use of secrecy in responding to lawsuits that accuse it and its drivers of injuring people \u2014 and the hurdles that accident victims can face in trying to hold the nation\u2019s largest ride-hailing firm accountable. In many of those cases, court records also show, Uber obtained broad protective orders that have hidden evidence concerning accidents and prevented the public and regulators from learning of safety hazards.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Seth Rosenfeld, San Francisco Public Press<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182596581{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sfpublicpress.org\/news\/2020-01\/california-agency-is-hiding-uber-and-lyft-accident-reports\">California Agency Is Hiding Uber and Lyft Accident Reports<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe number of ride-hailing accidents is rising as the services boom. But the industry has hidden safety records \u2014 with help from its chief regulator.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Seth Rosenfeld, San Francisco Public Press<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181209648{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forworkingfamilies.org\/article\/new-report-finds-prop-22-uber-lyft-doordash-ballot-initiative-be-harmful-workers-communities\">New Report Finds Prop 22 (Uber, Lyft &amp; DoorDash Ballot Initiative) to be harmful to workers, communities, and good government in California<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIf approved by voters, Prop 22 would ensure that gig corporations could:<br \/>\n*Avoid ever paying for overtime, critical work expenses (such as full mileage expenses or cell phones), or even the state\u2019s minimum wage. These omissions could cost drivers as much as $500 per week in lost wages and reimbursements;<br \/>\n*Prevent workers from accessing a single day of paid sick or family leave or the unemployment benefits many need during this pandemic;<br \/>\n*Deny workers long-term medical or income protections if they are disabled on the job;<br \/>\n*Discriminate on the basis of immigration status &#8211; a protection that is crucial given that 56% of app-based transportation and delivery workers are immigrants;<br \/>\nObscure access to health benefits that would require individuals to work longer hours for far less assistance than advertised.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Partnership For Working Families<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602956851267{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2020\/sep\/24\/disruption-big-tech-buzzword-silicon-valley-power\">The disruption con: why big tech\u2019s favourite buzzword is nonsense<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUber claims to have \u201crevolutionised\u201d the experience of hailing a cab, but really that experience has largely stayed the same. What it managed to get rid of were steady jobs, unions and anyone other than Uber making money on the whole enterprise.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Adrian Daub, the Guardian<\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1643014849842{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/annehelenpetersen\/millennial-burnout-cant-even-anne-helen-petersen\">\u201cI Accept Pay Less Than My Worth Just To Get A Job&#8221;: How The Gig Economy Screwed Over Millennials<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cAfter the recession, newly vulnerable workers were forced to take crappy jobs and a decade later, they\u2019re still screwed.<br \/>\nTo be clear, it\u2019s not that jobs weren\u2019t created. In fact, strong job creation numbers were flouted every day \u2014 first by Obama, then by Trump. It\u2019s just that they weren\u2019t the same sort of jobs as before. A &#8216;job&#8217; can be a temp position given to a freelancer, a seasonal gig, even a part-time job. According to one study, nearly all of the jobs &#8216;added&#8217; to the economy between 2005 and 2015 were &#8216;contingent&#8217; or &#8216;alternative&#8217; in some way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Anne Helen Petersen,\u00a0 senior culture writer for BuzzFeed News and author of &#8220;<i>Can\u2019t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation<\/i>.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602956756617{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/14\/perspectives\/gig-companies-employees-uber-postmates\/index.html\">Gig companies want to change the rules about who qualifies as an employee. Here&#8217;s why they&#8217;re wrong<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBut legally, being an &#8220;employee&#8221; means that workers have a broader bundle of rights that their employer must respect. What would gig companies jettison, based on Uber&#8217;s proposal? The right to a safe workplace, to minimum wage and overtime pay, to unemployment insurance and employer Social Security contributions and also to form a union and to not face retaliation for asserting any of these rights<em>.<br \/>\nIn essence, gig companies want to redistribute the costs of the safety net away from themselves and toward workers and all of us. Indeed, right now, regular employee unemployment insurance benefits are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/up-front\/2020\/07\/20\/how-does-unemployment-insurance-work-and-how-is-it-changing-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/#:~:text=Who%20pays%20for%20unemployment%20insurance,%247%2C000%20of%20each%20employee's%20wages.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paid for by employer taxes<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Terri Gerstein, Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project, Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, and also a Fellow in the Program.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846073314{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/12\/18\/opinion\/gig-workers-deserve-employment-protections\/\">Gig workers deserve employment protections<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe misclassification of employees as independent contractors predates the emergence of the gig economy and has been a method of skirting the cost of standard worker protections.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Mark Erlich, Wertheim Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846256884{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/11852498\/dashers-taskers-and-other-euphemisms-obscure-real-losses-for-gig-workers\">&#8216;Dashers,&#8217; &#8216;Taskers&#8217; and Other Euphemisms Obscure Real Losses for Gig Workers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWhile Sam Walton at Walmart helped mainstream fancy titles for low-paid employees, executives at gig companies like Lyft and Instacart have succeeded in passing labor laws that created a whole new legally defined sub-employee class for their workers. The new term for this sub-employee category? &#8216;Independent contractor plus.&#8217;<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Sam Harnett, KQED, San Francisco<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847537390{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/01\/uber-lyft-prop-proposition-22-california\">After Prop 22, Expect Uber to Escalate Its War on Workers\u2019 Rights<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe events of 2020, and especially the campaign for Prop 22, were a mask-off moment for the gig companies. Though they covered up their true business models with empowering language and clever marketing strategies, the pandemic showed them for what they were: companies using the excuse of technology to roll back workers\u2019 rights in service of the power and profits of their wealthy shareholders and, by extension, the entirety of the capitalist class.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Paris Marx, Jacobin<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847598478{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41893-020-00678-z\">Impacts of transportation network companies on urban mobility<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cDespite the ideal of providing a sustainable mobility solution by promoting large-scale car sharing, our analysis suggests that TNCs have intensified urban transport challenges since their debut in the United States.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Mi Diao, Hui Kong &amp; Jinhua Zhao, Nature Sustainability<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847637724{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/160082\/uber-lyft-prop-22-impunity\">Uber and Lyft Bought Themselves Impunity, Again<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIn California, gig economy giants won the ability to make their own laws. Money will do that for you.<br \/>\nMore disheartening still is that they achieved their California win by pouring vast sums of money into a ballot measure\u2014theoretically an avenue of direct democracy\u2014which suggests that their influence extends far beyond the usual suspects of lobbyists and pro-business politicians.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>J.C. Pan, staff writer at The New Republic<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848053907{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/29\/technology\/what-we-got-wrong-about-uber-and-lyft.html\">What We Got Wrong About Uber and Lyft<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cHow can we believe that technology will help solve big problems if Uber\u2019s great promise didn\u2019t pan out?<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Shira Ovide, Tech Opinion Writer for Bloomberg and New York Times<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848123442{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessleader.co.uk\/deliveroo-strikes-and-uber-court-ruling-is-this-the-end-of-the-gig-economy\/116199\/\">Deliveroo Strikes And Uber Court Ruling: Is This The End Of The Gig Economy?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not the algorithm, it\u2019s not the code, it\u2019s not the logo, it\u2019s the people. Either as workers or as customers, both need to be treated with care and respect. In the long term, any business\u2019s brand is worthless without this buy-in. And as Deliveroo are finding out, any business that forgets or ignores this is on shaky ground, that seems to be getting shakier by the day.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Barney Cotto<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">n, Business Leader<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848510441{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.milkenreview.org\/articles\/how-the-gig-economy-promotes-inequality\">How the Gig Economy Promotes Inequality<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe gig economy is also reproducing interpersonal inequality structured by race and class\u2014think of it as a servant economy. The apps allow the privileged to get personalized services they can afford by the task.<br \/>\nBut if the country is serious about addressing structural racism, gig work is one of the practices that needs to be addressed \u2014 and soon.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology Boston College<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848665669{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/uber-supreme-court-future-lawsuits\">The Supreme Court owned Uber. What comes next is much worse<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUber&#8217;s future is, for the first time, out of its hands. After 12 years of moving fast and breaking things, the slow progress of the courts and the looming spectre of regulation are finally catching up with it. If the Supreme Court ruling lays down a marker, then what comes next will define not just Uber&#8217;s future, but the future of the entire gig economy. Faced with a deluge of lawsuits and legislators keen to get a grip on the gig economy, Uber must make a choice: fight in the courts or accept its fate.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Natasha Bernal, WIRED<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848951928{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marker.medium.com\/amp\/p\/901e3077bbbc\">End of the Line for Uber<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cEven as a public utility, Uber is doomed. The company can\u2019t make money even by robbing workers and restaurateurs, nor by pretending that adding cars will solve traffic jams. Uber is a menace, and while its doom is clear, it\u2019s not going quietly.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Cory Doctoro, Medium<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847176366{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0966692321002726\">The relationship between ridehailing and public transit in Chicago: A comparison before and after COVID-19<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c\u2022 We studied TNC-PT relationship at a spatially and temporally granular level.<br \/>\n\u2022 TNC-PT relationship before and during the COVID-19 shutdown is examined.<br \/>\n\u2022 Only approximately 2% of TNC trips complement public transit.<br \/>\n\u2022 45% to 50% of TNC trips substitute transit and this percentage drops during COVID-19 shutdowns.<br \/>\n\u2022 Crime rate positively correlate with TNC-PT substitution both before and during COVID-19 shutdowns.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Patrick Meredith-Karama, Hui Kong, Shenhao Wanga, Jinhua Zhaoa, Journal of Transport Geography<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847004688{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/12\/16\/who-pays-when-an-uber-driver-is-killed\/\">Who Pays When An Uber Driver Is Killed?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cMany ride-hail drivers, immigrant or not, come to the apps because they think they\u2019ll be able to make a lot of money, but find that having to cover the costs of gas and auto repairs just ends up sucking them into working more hours to make payments, all the while they\u2019re not building out resumes that could help them find more stable work in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846658236{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3855094\">The New Racial Wage Code<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIn writing and passing Prop 22, platform companies like Uber and Lyft obscured the way in which the law created a new racial wage code, claiming instead to offer economic opportunities for people of color and concealing the exploitative conditions endemic to those &#8216;opportunities.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Vena Dubal, Harvard Law And Policy Review<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846581443{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/workplace\/lyft-uber-compromise-drivers-washington\">How Uber and Lyft compromised with labor in Washington state \u2014 and kept drivers from becoming employees<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWhile the local Teamsters were intimately involved in crafting and then advocating for the bill\u2019s passage, the local Teamsters\u2019 own national leader vehemently opposed it. &#8216;This will be the model that sets the tone for the entire country,&#8217; Sean O\u2019Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said before Inslee signed the bill. Other national labor groups also urged state Democrats to vote against it. Rebecca Dixon, the executive director of the National Employment Law Project, said that the bill &#8216;sets a dangerous precedent&#8217; by giving gig-based companies &#8216;special treatment&#8217; and allowing them to manipulate laws intended to protect workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Anna Kramer, Protocol<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846415762{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/niwr.org\/2021\/08\/11\/no-due-process-no-rights\/\">No Due Process, No Rights: How Forced Arbitration Enables Misclassification In The Gig Economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe prevalence of forced arbitration agreements and class action bans enables misclassification of gig workers to continue in many ways. First, forced arbitration precludes workers from resolving their employment status in the courts, and makes it unlikely they can resolve the matter favorably in an arbitral proceeding. Second, even if misclassification is addressed in arbitration, the underlying systemic problem of misclassification will persist because any decision will be non-precedential, secret, and only applicable to the individual workers arbitrating the claim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>National Institute for Workers&#8217; Rights<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1673898285838{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/10\/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign\">Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe documents indicate Uber was adept at finding unofficial routes to power, applying influence through friends or intermediaries, or seeking out encounters with politicians at which aides and officials were not present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Harry Davies, Simon Goodley, Felicity Lawrence, Paul Lewis and Lisa O&#8217;Carroll, The Guardian<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1673898378596{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalequityatlas.org\/prop22-paystudy\">Prop 22 Depresses Wages and Deepens Inequities for California Workers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cDrivers\u2019 median net take-home earnings are just $6.20 per hour under Prop 22.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Drivers who pay for health insurance out of pocket earn nearly half of that.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The wage floor under Prop 22 is just $4.10 per hour.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Drivers would earn nearly $11 more per hour if they were classified as employees.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Rideshare work has become less flexible and more controlled by rideshare companies under Prop 22.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Eliza McCullough, Brian Dolber,<a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/nationalequityatlas.org\/prop22-paystudy#notes\">*<\/a> Justin Scoggins, Edward-Michael Mu\u00f1a, and Sarah Treuhaft &#8211; National Equity Atlas<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1673898396383{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/stories\/archives\/2022\/november\/ride-hailing-brief.html\">The Effects of Uber and Lyft in U.S. Cities<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe series summarizes key findings and recommendations from a compilation of studies conducted by Jeremy Michalek, the lead author, and other Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering researchers.: <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/cmuengineering\/docs\/tnc-policy-guidehttps:\/\/issuu.com\/cmuengineering\/docs\/tnc-policy-guide\">https:\/\/issuu.com\/cmuengineering\/docs\/tnc-policy-guidehttps:\/\/issuu.com\/cmuengineering\/docs\/tnc-policy-guide<\/a>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Sherry Stokes, Carnegie Mellon University<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1674483358047{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jan\/23\/african-leaders-who-dilute-workers-rights-for-ubers-digital-empire-harm-africa\">African leaders who dilute workers\u2019 rights for Uber\u2019s digital empire harm Africa<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201c<\/em>During a decade on the continent, Uber has often cut drivers\u2019 pay and added little value to local economies. Governments should admit it is not economic progress but imperial exploitation<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Dr. Kelle Howson, research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1675205994766{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2023\/01\/five-claims-uber-2022-recap-fact-checked\/\">Five claims from Uber\u2019s rosy 2022 recap, fact-checked<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cMoore said that, even when the article isn\u2019t blatantly deceptive, it\u2019s full of carefully woven half-truths. Despite Uber\u2019s claims about reinforcing transparency and maximizing drivers\u2019 earning potential, Moore said, &#8216;the truth is, they\u2019re minimizing transparency and drivers\u2019 earnings potential.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Yujie Zhou, Reporter, Mission Local, San Francisco<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1700508670382{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"_2DnPg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2023\/02\/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-thirty-two-losses-top-33-billion-but-uber-has-avoided-the-equity-collapse-most-tech-startups-experienced.html\">Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Two: Losses Top $33 Billion But Uber Has Avoided The Equity Collapse Most \u201cTech\u201d Startups Experienced<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cHubert Horan again painstakingly goes through Uber\u2019s deliberately distorted financial results to present something much closer to a real picture. To give an idea of the level of the fabrications: Uber relies on a pet metric, Adjusted EBITDA Profitability, which excludes all sorts of cost of doing business expense, like legal expenses and regulatory settlements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Hubert Horan, Naked Capitalism<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1691181200791{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabrangindia.in\/evolution-of-labour-exploitation-from-slavery-to-platform-economies\/\">Evolution of labour exploitation: from slavery to platform economies<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThroughout economic history, the exploitation and participation of labour have been a significant topic. From slavery to the rise of the platform economy, this narrative has evolved through social, political, and technological changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/sabrangindia.in\/content-author\/srinivas-venkat\/\">Srinivas Venkat, Sabrat India<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1701307174370{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2023\/11\/british-columbia-gig-worker-protection-legislation-limits\">Canadian Protections for Gig Workers Are Falling Flat<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBritish Columbia is touting a bill that will protect gig workers from the worst depredations of the sector. However, in a familiar trend of industries outsmarting employment standards in the country, the bill is poised to fall short of its lofty promises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Gerard Di Trolio, Jacobin<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1702257236383{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/braveneweurope.com\/los-riders-sin-papeles-migrants-tell-their-story-from-undocumented-food-delivery-couriers-to-trade-union-organisers\">Los riders sin papeles:<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/braveneweurope.com\/los-riders-sin-papeles-migrants-tell-their-story-from-undocumented-food-delivery-couriers-to-trade-union-organisers\">Migrants tell their story from undocumented food delivery couriers to trade union organisers<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUndocumented riders\u2019 double-exploitation \u2013 first by the platform, second by the account owner \u2013 means it should be no surprise that they tend to work the longest hours, at all times of the day not just when it is busy, to try to scrape together enough money to live on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Brave New Europe<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1710279550920{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ridefair.ca\/legislated-poverty\/\">Legislated Poverty:<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUnder current City and Provincial regulations, Toronto\u2019s ride-hail drivers\u2019 median pay is an estimated $6.37-$10.60\/hour, a collective annual loss of up ~$200 million\/year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>A report by RideFairTO Coalition and Rideshare Drivers Association of Ontario.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1711518096040{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inequality.org\/research\/cities-taking-on-ubers-bullying\/\">Cities Are Taking on Uber\u2019s Bullying<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cNew research shows that Uber and Lyft&#8217;s favorite argument against raising driver pay \u2014 that it would make trips unaffordable \u2014 isn&#8217;t borne out by data. Wall Street greed is a better explanation for why your most recent ride was so pricey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Mariah Montgomery, National Campaigns Director at PowerSwitch Action<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1714538715368{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/rideshare-giant-ola-has-abruptly-exited-the-australian-market-what-does-this-mean-for-the-future-of-ridesharing-227452\">Rideshare giant Ola has abruptly exited the Australian market. What does this mean for the future of\u00a0ridesharing?<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cOla\u2019s departure represents further concentration in Australia\u2019s rideshare market. Prior to it,\u00a0seven ridesharing companies were operating here: Uber, Didi, Ola, Shebah, InDrive, Bolt and GoCatch. This was down from a peak of 11 firms operating in 2022&#8243;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Neil G. Sipe, Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland. Via The Conversation<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1714538651276{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/bjir.12797\">What do platform workers in the UK gig economy want?<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cTherefore, this article makes use of a novel research design that generates a strategic non-probability sample of 510 platform workers with which to investigate workers\u2019 preferences regarding labour rights, representation and voice. Findings suggest strong support for labour rights, trade unions and co-determination. The low pay, insecurity, risk and lack of organizational voice that we find provides a rationale for these preferences. Moreover, platform workers\u2019 preferences are seemingly influenced by wider inequalities, with significant differences according to gender and country of birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Nicholas Martindale, Alex J. Wood, Brendan J. Burchell, British Journal Of Industrial Relations<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1718298367868{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/06\/13\/business\/food-delivery-mopeds-drivers-safety-doordash-uber-eats-grubhub\/\">A 23-minute ride for $3.52:<br \/>\nBoston\u2019s food delivery drivers are getting squeezed from all sides.<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWith little oversight from app-based companies, a largely migrant workforce is zipping around the city on mopeds \u2014 and raising safety concerns \u2014 to satisfy the insatiable demand for takeout&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0Katie Johnston &amp; Esmy Jimenez, Boston Globe<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1725056793230{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/02\/Fairwork-Annual-Report-2023.pdf\">Is the bubble bursting? Crisis and consolidation in the platform economy<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c2023 has been a year of both consolidation and crisis in the platform economy. Most significantly, pressures in international markets have created challenging conditions for platform companies that all too often at work. are passed down to workers in the form of declining pay, worsening conditions, and management standards &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Fairwork (2024) Fairwork Annual Report 2023: State of the Global Platform Economy. Oxford, United Kingdom; Berlin, Germany.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1728754091808{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"container-width svelte-1srjyxx\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2024-uber-lyft-nyc-drivers-pay-lockouts\/?embedded-checkout=true\">How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cFor years, Uber and Lyft have fought with regulators across the world to define drivers as independent contractors, not employees \u2014 arguing that workers are better off having a flexible schedule and being their own bosses. But over this long, frustrating summer, drivers never knew when they\u2019d be allowed to work, and often had no choice but to spend more unpaid hours on the road if they wanted any chance of matching their typical earnings. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Natalie Lung, Leon Yin, Aaron Gordon &amp; Denise Lu For The Big Take, Bloomberg.com<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1732216446930{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"documentFirstHeading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigpedia.org\/resources\/blogs\/wageindicator-no-such-thing-as-a-free-coffee-webinar-the-unpaid-work-in-the-gig-economy-and-possible-solutions-nov-1-2024?utm_source=WageIndicator+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=e40345e0e2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_08_10_07_32_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_bd1ac303f1-e40345e0e2-195977456&amp;mc_cid=e40345e0e2&amp;mc_eid=f88e2a4d08\">Unpaid work in the Gig Economy and Possible Solutions<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c1 Nov 2024 &#8211; All forms of unpaid work in the gig economy, the social impact of unpaid work on workers&#8217; personal lives, a focus on the domestic sector, and two practical solutions to tackle the phenomenon: all this was discussed during the latest event hosted by the WageIndicator gig team. Takeaways, recordings, and more resources in this blog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>WageIndicator Foundation, supported by FairWork and the University of Leeds<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1740082334226{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/ridesharing\/2025\/report-rising-cost-of-rideshare-services-may-cause-lower-demand\/\">Report: Rising Cost of Rideshare Services May Cause Lower Demand<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;The rising cost of rideshare services may lead to lower demand, according to a <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/gridwise.io\/analytics\/2025-annual-gig-mobility-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/gridwise_gridwise-analytics-annual-gig-mobility-report-activity-7297648914302693378-40pg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0Tuesday (Feb. 18) by gig worker app provider\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/gridwise.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gridwise<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">.<\/span>The report found that the median price for rideshare services (excluding tips) rose 7.2% in 2024 after increasing by 7.6% in 2023.<br \/>\nThese trends reflect inflationary pressures, adjustments in base fares, and higher operational costs, including fuel and vehicle maintenance,&#8217; the report said.<br \/>\nAbout 72% of the consumers surveyed said they would reduce or stop their use of rideshare services if prices increased further, while 19% said they would not change their usage habits due to higher prices, according to the report.<br \/>\nAsked if they had changed their behavior in the past year due to pricing, about 52% of consumers said they reduced their rideshare usage for that reason, per the report.<br \/>\nOffering lower fares is the top way customers can retain rideshare users, the report said. About 56% of consumers said lower fares keep them loyal to a specific rideshare service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Pyments<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1752579331949{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"post-title global-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readthemaple.com\/uber-drivers-have-unionized-for-the-first-time-in-canada\/\">Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;On July 2, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1518 in British Columbia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ufcw1518.com\/update\/topnews\/history-making-uber-drivers-in-greater-victoria-join-ufcw-1518\/?ref=readthemaple.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>announced<\/u><\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/victoria-uber-drivers-unionize-1.7575942?ref=readthemaple.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>more than<\/u><\/a> 500 Uber drivers in Greater Victoria have unionized.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Adam D.K. King, assistant professor in Labor Studies, University of Manitoba<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1753653599056{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dir.ca.gov\/dlse\/FAQ-Lawsuits-Uber-Lyft.html\">Frequently Asked Questions on Lawsuits Against Uber and Lyft<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;California&#8217;s Department Of Industrial Relations responds to 17 common questions asked by drivers about their potential in receiving back pay .<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>California&#8217;s Department Of Industrial Relation<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1756258075867{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2025\/uber-to-pay-15-5m-in-record-labor-settlement-with-seattle-covering-more-than-16000-delivery-drivers\/\">Uber to pay $15M in record labor settlement with Seattle, impacting more than 16,000 couriers<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;As the largest settlement in OLS history, this sets a new benchmark and represents a significant milestone for the\u00a0protection of worker rights in Seattle in the rapidly growing industry of app-based work,\u201d Steven\u00a0Marchese, director of the Office of Labor Standards, said in a statement.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Taylor Soper, Geek Wire<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1756262932137{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"m-hero-article-img__title f-h1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/ideas\/ubers-view-of-urban-life?_gl=1*1mi5523*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTA5MTcwMDU1MS4xNzU2MjYxODky*_ga_N1W9JWKLY3*czE3NTYyNjE4OTAkbzEkZzAkdDE3NTYyNjE4OTAkajYwJGwwJGgxNDE4MDcxOTQ1\">Uber\u2019s view of urban life<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;Over decades, neoliberal retrenchment and austerity policies have warped American cities and the kind of lives we make possible within them. The reality is that companies like Uber invariably benefit when public institutions, welfare programs, and existing labor markets fail to address the needs of people like Diana.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Katie J. Wells, Declan Cullen &amp; Kafui Attoh, Princeton University Press<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1761092681192{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.datocms-assets.com\/64990\/1752622539-ubers-inequality-machine-07152025.pdf\">Uber&#8217;s Inequality Machine<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;Data on how AI-driven pay is harming workers and what we can do to push back<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Power Switch Action &amp; Gig Workers Rising<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1761513348841{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"dcr-uc7bn6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/27\/what-taxi-uber-battle-means-airport-trip-sydney-melbourne\">Fare game: what the battle between taxis and Uber means for your airport trip in Sydney and Melbourne<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;Taxi companies are trialling flat-fare rides to challenge Uber\u2019s dominance on the airport run. Can they win back support \u2013 or at least customers?<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Penry Buckley, reporter for Guardian Australia<\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1770784229215{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/legalblogs\/courtside\/the-first-trial-of-ubers-many-sexual-assault-lawsuits\/\">The First Trial of Uber\u2019s Many Sexual Assault Lawsuits<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;<\/span>Dean\u2019s verdict is just one case, but it now sets the tone for thousands of similar lawsuits. Her win shows juries are willing to tag Uber with liability for incidents of sexual assault, even without finding its entire safety system defective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Vaidehi Mehta, lawyer and writer for FindLaw.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1773820279615{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/economy\/2026\/02\/uber-california-ballot-initiatives\/\">Uber ballot initiative sparks showdown with lawyers, doctors<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst\u2019s Office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lao.ca.gov\/ballot\/2025\/250454.pdf\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0that if Uber\u2019s ballot measure passes, the state could be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars of increased Medi-Cal costs, such as for health care that the state wouldn\u2019t be able to recover. On the other hand, the state could save tens of millions of dollars a year in court costs because there could be fewer auto accident cases, the LAO wrote.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Levi Sumagaysay at Cal Matters<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1775523800328{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"h1 c-hero__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Uber and Lyft Sexual Assault Lawsuits: Eligibility and 2026 Updates\">Uber and Lyft Sexual Assault Lawsuits: Eligibility and 2026 Updates<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-center text-dark fw-bold display-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;Thousands of people have filed rideshare sexual assault lawsuits claiming that Uber and Lyft didn\u2019t do enough to provide safe conditions for their passengers. Lawsuits say that both companies failed to implement safety measures, such as thorough driver background checks or video cameras that could have kept riders safe.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Michelle Llamas, Senior Writer BCPA<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1537363829197{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181236221{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"css-1jlz2s ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/18\/opinion\/technology\/technology-gig-economy.html\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">It\u2019s Not Technology That\u2019s Disrupting Our Jobs<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;But for the vast majority of workers, the \u201cfreedom\u201d of the gig economy is just the freedom to be afraid. It is the severing of obligations between businesses and employees. It is the collapse of the protections that the people of the United States, in our laws and our customs, once fought hard to enshrine.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Louis Hyman, Economic Historian and opinion writer New York Times<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181258014{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"css-1jlz2s ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/theausinstitute\/pages\/2692\/attachments\/original\/1519989285\/Subsidizing_Billionaires_Final.pdf?1519989285\">Subsidising Billionaires &#8211; Simulating the Net Incomes of UberX Drivers in Australia<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The implicit wage subsidy paid to Uber by its drivers, in the form of below-minimum wage labour, is large relative to the overall fares and margins generated in this business. It is equivalent to a subsidy paid to Uber (and ultimately its owners) by its Australian drivers, that is worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Jim Stanford, Ph.D.<br \/>\nCentre for Future Work at the Australia Institute<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1664419537290{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"css-1jlz2s ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/04\/02\/technology\/uber-drivers-psychological-tricks.html\">How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers\u2019 Buttons<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Employing hundreds of social scientists and data scientists, Uber has experimented with video game techniques, graphics and noncash rewards of little value that can prod drivers into working longer and harder \u2014 and sometimes at hours and locations that are less lucrative for them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Noam Scheiber, New York Times<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181278302{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"css-1jlz2s ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/our-work\/government-reform\/disrupting-democracy\">Disrupting Democracy<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/our-work\/government-reform\/disrupting-democracy\">How Uber Deploys Corporate Power to Overwhelm and Undermine Local Government<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;No single company or interest should have the power to use its wealth the way Uber does, overwhelming democracy\u2019s deliberative and decision-making processes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Public Citizen<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181292558{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"css-1jlz2s ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/uber-and-arbitration-a-lethal-combination\/\">Uber And Arbitration: A lethal Combination<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The recently settled Uber litigation in California illustrates how under current law arbitration effectively extinguishes important worker rights.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Katherine V. W. Stone, Economic Policy Institute<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181339765{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"css-1jlz2s ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/schallerconsult.com\/rideservices\/unsustainable.pdf\">UNSUSTAINABLE?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/schallerconsult.com\/rideservices\/unsustainable.pdf\">The Growth of App-Based Ride Services and <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/schallerconsult.com\/rideservices\/unsustainable.pdf\">Traffic, Travel and the Future of New York City<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;A continuation of TNC-led growth in travel is not a sustainable way to grow the city. Adding TNC mileage to already congested streets will lead to mounting costs for businesses and consumers from increasing traffic delay and hinder progress toward the City&#8217;s goals for mobility, economic growth and the environment. \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Bruce Schaller, Principal of Schaller Consulting<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181357956{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/datasociety.net\/output\/beyond-disruption\/\"><span class=\"fw5\">Beyond Disruption<br \/>\n<\/span>How Tech Shapes Labor Across Domestic Work &amp; Ridehailing<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8221; As a result, we have shown that labor platforms create uneasy trade-offs for workers, placing new pressures on them in ways that can be harmful, while also providing them with avenues for appealing to weak forms of accountability that may not have existed otherwise in informal work arrangements. Platform policies and practices that create conveniences or consumers may end up amplifying worker vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Julia Ticona, Alexandra Mateescu, Alex Rosenblat &#8211;\u00a0 Data &amp; Society<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181376937{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"article__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legal-forum.uchicago.edu\/publication\/disrupting-work-law-arbitration-gig-economy\">Disrupting Work Law: Arbitration in the Gig Economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The gig economy offers an important opportunity to grapple with the effects of IACs on workers\u2019 and consumers\u2019 low-value claims. So far, the results are troubling: while it is too early to say what is happening to drivers who pursue arbitration, it is apparent that IACs are impeding the development of answers to questions about drivers\u2019 employment status, and significantly reducing the value of workers\u2019 claims in litigation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Charlotte Garden,\u00a0Associate Professor, Seattle University School of Law<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181395960{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"article__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rep-am.com\/news\/news-business\/2018\/09\/24\/gig-economy-may-not-be-the-way-of-the-future-after-all\/\">\u2018Gig\u2019 economy may not be the way of the future after all<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Research by Uber\u2019s chief economist, Jonathan Hall, and John Horton of New York University found that when Uber raised its fares, drivers initially earned more money. But there were offsetting effects: The higher rates attracted more drivers while reducing the number of trips consumers made. Overall earnings for drivers soon fell back to their previous levels.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181413269{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"post-headline \" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/uber-lyft-ride-hailing-increases-fatal-car-accidents-new-research-shows-2018-10\">The meteoric rise of Uber and Lyft may have spurred a deadly outcome, according to new research<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The arrival of ridesharing is associated with an increase of 2-3% in the number of motor vehicle fatalities and fatal accidents&#8230;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">John Barrios of the University of Chicago, Yael Hochberg and Livia Hanyi Yi of Rice University<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181429217{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/technology\/2019\/01\/03\/canadian-court-slams-ubers-arbitration-process.html\">Canadian court slams Uber\u2019s arbitration process<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201c\u2026.Ontario\u2019s highest court ruled (Uber\u2019s) process for arbitrating disputes were not only unlawful but \u201cunconscionable\u2026..Uber was improperly forcing its drivers in the province to resolve complaints about pay or other work issues through an international mediation process in the Netherlands. Drivers disputing even small complaints face a steep cost of $14,500 (U.S.) to initiate the process\u2026<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>JACQUIE MCNISH, The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181444425{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneycontrol.com\/news\/india\/opinion-ola-uber-drivers-strike-exposes-the-legal-gaps-in-the-aggregator-business-model-3118391.html\">Opinion:\u00a0 Ola, Uber drivers\u2019 strike exposes the legal gaps in the aggregator business model<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Considering the frequency of strikes, the legal ramification may only be to appreciate the legitimacy of drivers\u2019 struggles and giving them their due recognition as a &#8216;worker&#8217; under the law\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Puneet Shah | Sanchit Kapoorh | it Kapoor, Moneycontrol India<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181483931{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nelp.org\/publication\/rights-at-risk-gig-companies-campaign-to-upend-employment-as-we-know-it\/\">Rights At Risk: Gig Companies\u2019 Campaign To Upend Employment As We Know It<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cRide-hailing giant Uber and aspiring \u201cUber of home services\u201d Handy, along with other tech-companies-cum-service-providers, have been conspiring with powerful corporate allies and lobbyists on a far-reaching, multi-million-dollar influence campaign to rewrite worker classification standards for their own benefit\u2014and to workers\u2019 detriment. Their goal: to pass policies that lock so-called \u201cgig\u201d workers who find jobs via online platforms into independent contractor status, stripping them of the basic labor rights and protections afforded to employees and allowing the companies to evade payroll taxes and worker lawsuits.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Irene Tung, National Employment Law Project<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1605764525200{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steven-hill.com\/is-uber-the-amazon%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aor-the-enron%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aof-the-transportation-industry\/\">Is Uber the Amazon\u200a\u2014\u200aor the Enron\u200a\u2014\u200aof the transportation industry?<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe dirty little secret of Silicon Valley is that seven out of 10 startups fail. I think it\u2019s very possible that Uber is destined to be one of them. But everyone is afraid to say that because a good chunk of Silicon Valley\u200a\u2014\u200athe venture capital funds, leading companies and influential leaders\u200a\u2014\u200aare heavily invested in it and hoping to cash in.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Steven Hill<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181502346{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/5\/28\/18638480\/gig-economy-workers-wellbeing-survey\">The recession hasn\u2019t ended for gig economy workers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201c..the Federal Reserve\u2019s latest report on economic wellbeing in the US. The report, which was released last week [May 21, 2019], found that in 2018, workers who supported themselves through the gig economy struggled financially far more than the average person.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Alexia Fern\u00e1ndez Campbell, VOX<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181520911{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/uber-ab5-gig-economy-legislation-california-1448302\">Hardwire Gig Workers&#8217; Rights Into Law. It\u2019s The Only Way To Save The American Dream<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhile ride share companies say they want to do better than the status quo, they continue to fight against this path for gig workers, claiming AB5 would hurt their profitability and cause us to lose the flexibility we love in our jobs. This is a false premise and a false choice.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Linda Valdivia &amp; David Huerta, Opinion Newsweek<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602265173094{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/americanaffairsjournal.org\/2019\/05\/ubers-path-of-destruction\/\">Uber\u2019s Path of Destruction<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cBut Uber\u2019s demonstrated ability to use raw economic power on an unprecedented scale makes the risks to society even worse\u2026.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Uber, meanwhile, is unique because it is entirely exploitive. It has not created any sustainable offsetting benefits. The private wealth it has created comes entirely at the expense of the rest of society.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Hubert Horan<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181557242{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2019\/05\/ubers-ipo-strike-lyft-cities-governance\">The City Is Ours, Not Uber\u2019s<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBeyond its impact on workers, Uber has made our cities worse places to live. The company has decreased urban public transit usage and even produced a sharp rise in US traffic deaths. And Uber has vastly increased congestion. Last year in NYC, rideshare companies added 85,000 cars per month completing 700,000 trips a day to the city\u2019s streets. If we assume an average of five miles per trip, using EPA metrics, then rideshare companies added 516,110 metric tons of CO2 to NYC\u2019s air \u2014 the equivalent pollution of 406,066 flights from NYC to San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Andrew Wolf, JACOBIN<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181575097{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-uber-makes-its-drivers-pay-11565737028\">How Uber Makes Its Drivers Pay<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe firm\u2019s reported costs don\u2019t include the cars\u2019 lost value: almost $11 billion. Once drivers understand that they are liquidating the value of their vehicles, in effect receiving payday loans with their cars as collateral, the effects may be significant. \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ken Wiles, clinical associate professor of finance at The University of Texas at Austin &amp; Kep Sweeney,\u00a0<\/em><em>managing director of Acceleron Group.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181593976{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/8\/8\/20793793\/uber-5-billion-quarter-loss-profit-lyft-traffic-2019\">Uber lost over $5 billion in one quarter, but don\u2019t worry, it gets worse<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cUber and Lyft keep losing money while driving up the number of cars on our overcrowded streets\u2026.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>THE DISCONNECT IS BETWEEN HOW ANALYSTS TALK ABOUT THESE COMPANIES AND HOW CITIES ABSORB THE EFFECTS OF APP-BASED RIDE-HAILING\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1612214513345{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/4vz52416\">The Effects of Ride-Hailing Services on Greenhouse Gas Emissions<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThis study found that ride-hailing leads to increased VMT and GHG emissions, through increased trip generation, empty travel to pick up passengers, and riders switching from other modes of travel. <\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Caroline Rodier&amp; Julia Michaels, National Center for Sustainable Transportation, UC Davis<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181610366{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-50418357\">Uber\u2019s paradox: Gig work app traps and frees its drivers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIn perhaps the first move of its kind, Ms Joshi\u2019s commission forced Uber to hand over data about its drivers operating in New York.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat we found out was that conditions were worse than what was described to us by drivers,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n\u201cNinety-six per cent of drivers were making less than the city\u2019s minimum wage. Most of the drivers were providing the main source of income for their families.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Carl Miller,NEWS BBC.com<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181664301{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-to-stop-workers-being-exploited-in-the-gig-economy-103673\">How to stop workers being exploited in the gig economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBetter regulating the gig economy is important to ensure everyone benefits from technological change. We need to consider the gains to workers, not just companies and consumers. Is technology going to provide quality jobs and increase people\u2019s control over their work? Or is it going to be used to circumvent the basic minimum wage and drive down working conditions?<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Michael Rawling, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney &amp;\u00a0<span class=\"fn author-name\">Sarah Kaine,\u00a0<\/span>Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181683285{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/uber-drivers-are-not-entrepreneurs-nlrb-general-counsel-ignores-the-realities-of-driving-for-uber\/\">Uber drivers are not entrepreneurs<br \/>\nNLRB General Counsel ignores the realities of driving for Uber<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe GC memo gets the realities of driving for Uber wrong. In reality, Uber drivers do not experience entrepreneurial opportunity. Drivers have no control over the fares Uber charges passengers. Drivers have no ability to grow their business through marketing strategies or subcontracting. In fact, academic research co-authored by Uber\u2019s chief economist demonstrates that drivers have very limited ability to improve their own earnings.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Lawrence Mishel and Celine McNicholas, Economic Policy Institute<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1622469178057{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/payup.wtf\/doordash\/no-free-lunch-report\">No free lunch, but almost: What DoorDash actually pays, after expenses, and what\u2019s happening with tips<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cOn average, DoorDash pays just $1.45 per hour worked, after accounting for the expenses of mileage and the additional payroll taxes borne by independent contractors. The average job requires 6.8 miles of driving, and takes 30 minutes to complete.<br \/>\n8% of jobs include gross pay from DoorDash of just $2.<br \/>\n86% of jobs include a customer tip.<br \/>\nJust 11% of jobs pay more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25\/hour after expenses, and only 2% meet the standard of $15 + expenses.<br \/>\nDespite the company\u2019s insistence that they are no longer misappropriating tips,\u00a0our analysis shows that jobs with higher tips tend to have lower pay.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Working Washington<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181720129{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/uber-delivery-workers-in-mexico-track-thieves-through-a-secret-whatsapp-network-d5795a0e3b41\">Uber Delivery Workers in Mexico Are Tracking Thieves Through Google Maps and WhatsApp Networks<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cDelivery workers across Mexico are under severe pressure.\u00a0<a class=\"bu do kh ki kj kk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/7\/3\/20679004\/uber-eats-mexico-delivery-courier-death-injury-insurance-expansion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Fatal crashes<\/a>\u00a0are a known risk, and reports of\u00a0<a class=\"bu do kh ki kj kk\" href=\"https:\/\/lasillarota.com\/metropoli\/a-domicilio-estas-colonias-son-donde-mas-asaltan-a-repartidores-uber-eats-rappi-sin-delantal-iztapalapa\/270803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">robberies<\/a> are practically a daily occurrence. To protect themselves and each other, delivery workers are turning to messaging apps and social networks to document grievances and rally for change.<br \/>\nTo feel safe while making risky deliveries, workers are more likely to depend on each other than company staff on a hotline.<em style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Martha Pskowski in OneZero<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181743523{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/05\/uber-loan-program-debt\">Uber\u2019s new loan program could trap drivers in cycles of crushing debt<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIf the company designs their financial offerings so that drivers must continue to work for Uber in order to pay off their Uber debts or to maintain access to their Uber bank accounts, the company could lock workers in. If the only way you can have a bank account is to drive for Uber, then you might just continue to drive for the company even if you want to stop.<br \/>\nIn continuing its foray into the financial services market, Uber may have proven once again that its main claim \u2013 that it provides freedom to drivers like Aslam \u2013 is also its biggest lie.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Veena Dubal,University of California, Hastings College of the Law<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181762460{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/platformlabor.net\/blog\/brazilian-uber-drivers-covid-19-pandemic\">Managing uncertainty at their own expense: Brazilian Uber drivers facing the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cAll three interviewees are still working. As they drive, SARS-COV-2 may be riding in their back seat, a risk worsened by careless riders. Giacomo estimates that out of ten passengers he picked up, two wore a mask. Ant\u00f4nio\u2019s wife is diabetic, a risk group for Covid-19. He chose to continue working so they could afford her a balanced diet.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ana Guerra, Platform Labor\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181775718{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/11\/opinion\/california-bill-uber-employees.html?action=click&amp;module=RelatedLinks&amp;pgtype=Article\">Opinion: Take That \u2018Gig\u2019 and Shove It<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cA California bill would make it harder for companies like Uber to take advantage of workers. Other states should borrow the idea.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Editorial Board Of The New York Times<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181790434{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/7\/3\/20679004\/uber-eats-mexico-delivery-courier-death-injury-insurance-expansion\">Deaths And Injuries Don&#8217;t Slow Uber Eats&#8217; Rapid Expansion In Mexico<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIn the past six months, five Uber Eats couriers in Mexico have died in crashes, and dozens more have been injured. Uber\u2019s insurance policy was supposed to help \u2014 it hasn\u2019t.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Martha Pskowski, The Verge<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181809536{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/laborcenter.berkeley.edu\/the-uber-lyft-ballot-initiative-guarantees-only-5-64-an-hour\/\">The Uber\/Lyft Ballot Initiative Guarantees only $5.64 an Hour<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUber, Lyft, and DoorDash have unveiled their ballot initiative to undo historic worker protections enshrined in AB5, California\u2019s new law that tightens the criteria for worker classification. The initiative claims drivers will receive a guaranteed pay equal to 120% of the minimum wage (that would be $15.60 in 2021, when the California minimum wage will be $13). Our review of the initiative leads to a very different estimate. After considering multiple loopholes in the initiative, we estimate that the pay guarantee for Uber and Lyft drivers is actually the equivalent of a wage of $5.64 per hour.\u00a0<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Ken Jacobs, Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center &amp; Michael Reich, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley and co-chair, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics.<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181824986{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/07\/gig-workers-are-here-to-stay-its-time-to-give-them-benefits\">Gig Workers Are Here to Stay. It\u2019s Time to Give Them Benefits.<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cCreating buffers, from extended UI to a universal basic income, that support a baseline of broad economic security for all working people (including those who cannot or should not go to work due to health concerns, layoffs, or any other valid reason) could improve the status quo for workers across the wider spectrum of low-wage and unstable work. <em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Alex Rosenblat, Harvard Business Review<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181841159{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/19\/opinion\/uber-lyft-shutting-down-california.html\">Opinion: Uber and Lyft Just Can\u2019t Stop Flouting the Law<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cSaying this doesn\u2019t apply to them has no basis in law, and that\u2019s been backed up by the court,\u201d said Catherine Fisk, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. \u201cIf they cannot provide a business that complies with the law, they need to get out of that business.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Greg Bensinger, member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602956635577{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/oct\/08\/deaths-of-two-food-delivery-riders-in-sydney-throws-spotlight-on-gig-workers-conditions\">Deaths of two food delivery riders in Sydney throws spotlight on gig workers&#8217; conditions<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWithout workers\u2019 compensation, the families of Xiaojun Chen and Dede Fredy may face financial ruin.<br \/>\nMost gig economy workers are not eligible for standard workers\u2019 compensation, said Nick McIntosh, the assistant national secretary of the Transport Workers Union. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sira.nsw.gov.au\/claiming-compensation\/workers-compensation-claims\/payments-in-the-event-of-death\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Under the New South Wales workers\u2019 compensation scheme<\/a>, the dependants of someone who dies because of a work-related injury are entitled to a lump sum payment of $834,200, and weekly payments of $149.30 for each dependant child until the age of 16.<br \/>\nBut deliverers for Uber Eats and Hungry Panda are classified as independent contractors, not employees.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Naaman Zhou, The Guardian Australia<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1622563975542{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/942798\/uber-attempting-colonize-californian-government\">Uber is attempting to colonize the California government<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThese companies have also bought off several nominally &#8220;progressive&#8221; organizations in a breathtakingly cynical piece of woke-washing \u2014 making out as though this assault on the labor rights and incomes of a heavily-minority workforce is actually a racial justice issue, somehow. In particular, California NAACP President Alice Huffman has been publishing absolutely shameless pro-22 agitprop after an $85,000 payment to her consulting firm. (She has done the same routine with several other dubious ballot initiatives this year.)<br \/>\nOf course, if Prop 22 passes, Uber and company will continue to rely on the California government for their basic functioning \u2014 from building and maintaining roads, to running the legal system, to providing basic services all their workers and customers rely on, and a hundred other things. It&#8217;s a classic Republican Party strategy of quiet authoritarianism: set up minoritarian structures that make it nearly impossible for the people to actually overthrow your power no matter who they vote for. In effect, these companies are trying to colonize the power of the state for themselves.<br \/>\nCalifornians: Don&#8217;t fall for it!<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Naaman Zhou, The Guardian Australia<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655844942476{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/prop-22-labor\/\">Can American Labor Survive Prop 22?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cVeena Dubal, a labor law professor at UC Hastings, told me that Prop 22\u2019s passage represents &#8216;the most radical undoing of labor legislation since <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2017\/12\/taft-hartley-unions-right-to-work\">Taft-Hartley<\/a> in 1947,&#8217; the law that debilitated the power granted to unions by the New Deal. &#8216;It will create a growing precariat of people who work very hard and are not able to survive off of their earnings. And it will have an impact on American politics for decades, if not the next century.&#8217;<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Wilfred Chan, The Nation<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655845191731{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/transform.ucsc.edu\/on-demand-and-on-the-edge\/\">On-Demand and on-the-edge: Ride-hailing and Delivery Workers in San Francisco<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>A new survey of app-based ride-hailing and food and grocery-delivery workers in San Francisco underscores the financial vulnerability of workers in the gig economy\u2014and the coronavirus has made their plight much worse.\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Chris Benner (UC Santa Cruz) with Erin Johansson (Jobs With Justice), Kung Feng (Jobs With Justice) and Hays Witt (Drivers Seat Cooperative)<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181645917{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/john-joseph-horton.com\/papers\/uber_price.pdf\">Pricing Efficiently in Designed Markets:\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/john-joseph-horton.com\/papers\/uber_price.pdf\">The Case of Ride-Sharing<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cFor the driver hourly earnings rate, we find that when Uber raises the base<br \/>\nfare in a city, the driver hourly earnings rate rises immediately as drivers make more money per trip. However, the hourly earnings rate begins to decline shortly thereafter, and after about 8 weeks, there is no detectable difference in the driver average hourly earnings rate compared to before the fare increase.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Jonathan V. Hall, Uber Technologies \/ John J. Horton, NYU Stern \/Daniel T. Knoepfle, Uber Technologies<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846180983{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3668606\">Words Matter: How Tech Media Helped Write Gig Companies into Existence<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe positive, uncritical coverage prevailed for years and helped pave the way for a handful of companies that represent a tiny fraction of the economy to have an outsized impact on law, mainstream corporate practices, and the way we think about work.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Sam Harnett KQED, San Francisco<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846282455{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/shows\/marketplace-tech\/the-future-of-work-as-determined-by-uber-independent-contractors-gig-work-employment-benefits\/\">The future of work \u2026 as determined by Uber?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c I think what we have done is, unfortunately, we\u2019ve allowed some very powerful platform companies to dictate the terms of our public policies.<br \/>\nAnd that to me is an appropriate thing for public policies and people we elect to think about, not for people in any industry or powerful company to determine for us. I think Prop. 22, and a lot of other things that have happened at the state level, have pushed us, unfortunately, towards defining that based on the interests of a small number of businesses rather than on what we as the public think are appropriate protections.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">David Weil, dean at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847779583{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inequality.org\/research\/5-ways-biden-can-tame-gig-economy\/\">5 Ways the Biden Labor Team Can Tame the Gig Economy \u2014 Inequality.org<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe stigma of surviving off odd jobs was mitigated by the status-enhancing fantasy of belonging to the \u201ctech sector.\u201d In reality, corporations have used digital platforms to dismantle labor protections so that 21st century\u00a0<a class=\"cw jg\" href=\"https:\/\/inequality.org\/research\/california-gig-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">California has come to look more like Colombia or Cambodia<\/a>.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Bama Athreya, Inequality.org<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847919538{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ttd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/THE-COST-OF-DOING-BUSINESS-Why-lawmakers-must-hold-the-ride-hailing-industry-accountable-TTD-report.pdf\">The Costs Of Doing Business<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWhy lawmakers must hold the ride-hailing industry accountable as they undermine their workers and play by their own rules<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847994383{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/stakeholders\/151026\">Open Letter: Uber must recognize its workers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cYou (Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber CEO) want to have your cake and eat it. You want workers at your beck and call without being responsible for them. Rather than complying with labor laws in EU member states you want them to bend their laws to your interests.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Le\u00efla Chaib, Minister European Parliament<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848015354{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inequality.org\/research\/uk-uber-drivers\/\">With One Huge Victory Down, UK Uber Driver Moves on to the Next Gig Worker Battlefront<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWhat we have done so far is challenge Uber to disclosure \u2014 what data the app collects, things like GPS trace. But what we really want are inference data. What decisions has it made about me? How has it profiled me? How does that affect my earnings? This is what Uber has not given us.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Bama Athreya, Inequality.org<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655845063535{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icaew.com\/insights\/viewpoints-on-the-news\/2021\/april-2021\/uber-drivers-are-workers\">Uber drivers are workers. What does that mean for tax and employment?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWhat we have done so far is challenge Uber to disclosure \u2014 what data the app collects, things like GPS trace. But what we really want are inference data. What decisions has it made about me? How has it profiled me? How does that affect my earnings? This is what Uber has not given us.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>\u00a0ICAEW Insights<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848588624{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/online_articles\/the-workers-who-sued-uber-and-won\">The Workers Who Sued Uber and Won<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cAcross the world, companies like Uber are using algorithmic control to remain one step ahead of regulators, adopting new technologies to disguise old-fashioned exploitation.<br \/>\n&#8216;These apps guide our behavior through incentives and punishment. If they do it through electronic nudges, then they don\u2019t need to say it. And if you don\u2019t get the message, that\u2019s okay\u2014you\u2019ll just starve.&#8217;<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Wilfred Chan &amp; James Farrar, Dissent<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655849181150{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2021\/06\/labor-law-reform-uber-lyft-new-york-california-pro-act\">Not All Labor Law Reforms Are Created Equal<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWere such a law (the New York legislation) to pass, Uber and other companies could throw minimum wage and health and safety protections for millions of workers under the bus, putting a giant brake on any Biden administration effort to insure more security and dignity for American workers.<br \/>\nThese gig platforms are simply not viable unless they can create a vast pool of drivers and other contingent workers who themselves bear virtually all the risks \u2014 from accidents to slack sales \u2014 traditionally born by the employer itself.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of history, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655849139859{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/stories\/archives\/2021\/october\/emissions-study.html\">Who&#8217;s Paying For Your Uber?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThis extra driving means that a TNC&#8217;s fuel consumption \u2014 and by extension its greenhouse gas emissions \u2014 are on average about 20% higher than a personal vehicle. More time on the road also means more congestion, more noise, and more potential for vehicle crashes. Considering all of these factors, the team found that opting for a TNC over a private vehicle increases external costs to society by 30% to 35%, or about 32 to 37 cents per trip. This burden is not carried by the individual user, but rather impacts the surrounding community. Society as a whole currently shoulders these external costs in the form of increased mortality risks, damage to vehicles and infrastructure, climate impacts and increased traffic congestion.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Dan Carroll, Carnegie Mellon University<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847263127{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2021\/12\/08\/the-state-of-gig-work-in-2021\/\">The State of Gig Work in 2021<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c16% of Americans have ever earned money from an online gig platform. While most gig platform workers say they have had a positive experience with these jobs, some report facing on-the-job troubles like being treated rudely or sexually harassed\u00a0<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Monica Anderson, Colleen McClain, Michelle Favero, &amp; Risa Gellis-Watnick, Pew Research Center<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847103609{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.workerinfoexchange.org\/wie-report-managed-by-bots\">Managed by Bots<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.workerinfoexchange.org\/wie-report-managed-by-bots\">Data-Driven Exploitation in the Gig Economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cAs case law has developed and platforms matured, employers have become more adept at hiding management control in automated algorithmic processes. The employment misclassification problem continues, but the mask rarely slips. <em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Cansu Safak &amp; James Farrar, Worker Info Exchange<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846801438{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/22\/opinion\/uber-safety-ride-sharing.html\">Why Uber Won\u2019t Call the Police<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUber may say that safety is a top priority, but as its own employees\u2019 testimony shows, when customers or drivers are injured or attacked or worse, victims really are on their own.<br \/>\nUltimately, Uber is effectively helpless to maintain safety when a ride is underway. And when it knows about heinous acts committed on the rides it profits from, it often does no more than kick perpetrators off the app. <em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Greg Bensinger, Editorial Board, New York Times<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846722074{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-03-reveals-platform-firms-uber-strategy.html\">Study reveals how platform firms like Uber use a strategy of &#8216;contentious compliance&#8217; to gain infrastructural power<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe study&#8217;s reference to the firms&#8217; strategy as one of &#8220;contentious compliance&#8221; refers to their technique of adapting to existing legislation to be able to provide their services, while continuing to challenge regulations as aggressively as possible\u2014essentially a push-pull process between firms and governments.<br \/>\nDr. Valdez said: &#8216;Firms accept existing rules only because they take every opportunity to expand and display their services; to build the power necessary to continue to push for more favorable regulatory change.&#8217;<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Dr. Jimena Valdez, Department of International Politics, City, University of London<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846498680{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/1\/18\/22878214\/uber-lyft-women-drivers-sexual-assault-harassment-safety\">Women Who Drive For Uber And Lyft Are Being Left To Fend For Themselves<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c&#8221;They don\u2019t do enough when a driver is assaulted,&#8217; said Michelle Dottin, a driver and advocate. &#8216;Safety, in general, should be for everyone. It shouldn\u2019t be one-sided, and the way that these companies do it, it feels more one-sided \u2014 they don\u2019t really worry as much about their drivers.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Anna Betts, The Verge<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1656040639928{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2022\/06\/dehumanization-is-a-feature-of-gig-work-not-a-bug\">Dehumanization Is a Feature of Gig Work, Not a Bug<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cHowever, my findings also point to something deeper and perhaps more concerning about the changing nature of work and our relationship to it that transcends app work in the on-demand economy. What I observed and experienced was a system that suppresses workers\u2019 uniqueness, experiences, and future aspirations. It was a system that treated people like lines of code to be deployed instead of humans to be developed. This is problematic because work is not simply the translation of physical and intellectual effort into money. What we do on a daily basis for work is part of our broader life narrative that makes us who we are\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/search?term=eric%20m.%20anicich&amp;search_type=search-all\">Eric M. Anicich, Harvard Business Review<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1673898541643{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rhockett\/2023\/01\/15\/why-is-uber-ber-alles--public-platform-infrastructure-for-the-gig-economy\">Why Is Uber \u00dcber Alles? Public Platform Infrastructure for the \u2018Gig Economy\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cPlatforms like Facebook Marketplace make clear that such services can be made available at virtually no extra cost to sellers or buyers. Why don\u2019t all cities, then, make such platforms freely available in all realms where they\u2019re not already available? For that matter, why doesn\u2019t the US Department of Labor do so for the entire American economy? If a large part of the American economy is \u2018the gig economy,\u2019 why not cheaply and publicly provide that economy\u2019s infrastructure just as we do for the non-gig economy?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law and a Professor of Public Policy, Cornell University<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1717387370088{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/ntwe.12272\">Platform couriers&#8217; self\u2010exploitation: The case study of Glovo<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThis article examines the phenomenon of self\u2010exploitation among platform couriers, using the company Glovo as a case study. The research, based on a qualitative approach with interviews from 22 different stakeholders, highlights the ways in which precarity, entrepreneurial subjectivity, and gamification intersect to create what are referred to as post disciplinary control mechanisms. These mechanisms shift the locus of exploitation from the employer to the workers&#8217; inner selves, which are compelled to follow implicit guidelines due to their precarious situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Tiago Vieira, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1674602529792{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2023\/01\/24\/uber-lyft-rideshare-legislation-unions\">Unions back basic benefits bill for Massachusetts Uber, Lyft drivers<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cA new bill (HD 2071 \/ SD 1162) backed by the International Association of Machinists and 32BJ SEIU seeks to ensure that workers for Uber, Lyft and other for-hire ride services can access a guaranteed minimum wage, paid sick time, unemployment insurance, discrimination protection and collective bargaining rights.<br \/>\nThe bill does not require drivers complete any minimum number of hours to qualify for a wage floor, workers compensation or discrimination protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Chris Lisinski, State House News Service<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1675209752261{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/owed-employers-face-little-accountability-for-wage-theft\/\">Wage theft often goes unpunished despite state systems meant to combat it<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Whether it&#8217;s paying less than minimum wage, withholding tips or pressuring staff to work off the clock, so-called wage theft siphons billions from Americans&#8217; paychecks. Through extensive data analysis and interviews with local, state and federal officials, along with victims of wage theft across the country, CBS News found the systems designed to protect those workers often fail&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Chris Hacker, Ash-Har Quraishi, Amy Corral, Ryan Beard, CBS News<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1684683158347{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/365130264_Why_Platform_Capitalism_is_Not_the_Future_of_Work\">Why Platform Capitalism is Not the Future of Work<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Although Uber raised prices and cut staff, \u2018annual operating de\ufb01cits of several billion dollars are expected to continue\u2019, and Lyft only loses less money because it is smaller. Among their problems are that Uber loses drivers at a monthly rate of 12.5 per cent and the cost to hire new ones is approximately US$650 per driver, which amounts to expenses of US$250 million per month just to \ufb01nd new drivers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Dario Azzellini, University of Zacatecas, Mexico \/ Ian Greer, Cornell University, USA \/ Charles Umney, University of Leeds, UK<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1698019774843{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2023\/10\/uber-gig-work-neoliberal-city-governance-washington-dc\">The Failures of Neoliberal Governance Paved the Way for Uber\u2019s Conquest of the City<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Uber conquered cities around the world in part by offering false, tech-based \u201csolutions\u201d to long-standing problems like broken public transit and underemployment. The company\u2019s victory was made possible by decades of failed neoliberal policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Sara Wexler, Jacobin &amp; Kattie J. Wells\/Kafui Attoh\/Declan Cullen<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1702259218676{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ubers-u-turn-over-listing-black-cabs-isnt-difficult-to-understand-when-you-look-at-its-finances-219039\">Uber\u2019s U-turn over listing black cabs isn\u2019t difficult to understand when you look at its finances<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;So there you have it. A business that will probably always struggle to make money and isn\u2019t doing the world much good. As Uber turns for support to an industry it has squeezed so much, it will be hard to feel much sympathy if it doesn\u2019t succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>John Colley, Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwic<\/em>k<\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1707511713048{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-gig-workers-uber-deliveroo-protection-ride-hailing-app-tech\/\">EU delivers nothingburger to Uber and Deliveroo workers<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;BRUSSELS \u2014 The European Union just delivered a big, fat nothingburger to food couriers and ride-hailing app drivers seeking better social protections from the tech firms they work for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Pieter Haeck, Politico<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1710524617364{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/investigations\/uber-sex-assault-lawsuits\/3479802\/\">\u2018I don&#8217;t have 10 years&#8217;: Women in Uber sex assault lawsuits face long delays<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;According to plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys, Broomfield is one of about 2,000 people suing Uber in civil court in state and federal court, alleging the company didn\u2019t do enough to protect passengers from sexual abuse by its drivers.<br \/>\nWhile news outlets have covered some of these cases, Broomfield says what people don\u2019t know is that there have been significant case delays. She recently learned from her attorney it could take close to a decade since her incident for her to see any sort of resolution.<br \/>\n&#8216;I need to find a way to survive now. I don\u2019t have 10 years to wait. My body is degenerating every minute, day by day. It\u2019s just getting worse,&#8217; Broomfield said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Candice Nguyen, Jeremy Carroll and Elroy Spatcher, SF Bay Area News, NBC<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1717208013470{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/im-always-delivering-food-while-hungry-how-undocumented-migrants-find-work-as-substitute-couriers-in-the-uk-201695\">\u2018I\u2019m always delivering food while hungry\u2019: how undocumented migrants find work as substitute couriers in the UK<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Riders who deliver for online food platforms are self-employed, and can nominate a substitute to deliver on their behalf.<br \/>\nThe UK online food ordering and delivery industry is currently valued at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibisworld.com\/united-kingdom\/market-size\/online-food-ordering-delivery-platforms\/\">\u00a32.75 billion<\/a>, having grown almost 30% each year since 2018. The number of public users of these food delivery services is currently put at 12.7 million \u2013 equating to almost one in four UK adults.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ian Clark, Professor; <\/em><em>Nadia Kougiannoua and Pedro Mendon\u00e7a Associate Professors: Of Work and Employment, Nottingham Trent University\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1717200748051{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"fw500 md:fw500 lg:fw500 block standardHeadlineSm sm:standardHeadlineMd lg:standardHeadlineLg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/opinion\/openforum\/article\/prop-22-workers-california-19476782.php\">How California\u2019s Prop 22 affects far more workers than Uber and Lyft drivers<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The passage of Prop 22\u00a0created a whole new set of reduced (and less expensive) labor standards. Simultaneously, it robbed\u00a0this majority racial minority and immigrant workforce\u00a0of the freedom accorded traditional small businesses. Unlike true independent contractors who can bargain with those who hire them, set their own labor prices and cultivate a clientele, Prop 22 mandates that workers who labor for transportation and delivery \u201cnetwork companies\u201d be governed by a set of rules that leave their everyday work lives to the control and discretion of their hiring entities, depriving them of a guaranteed hourly minimum wage, leaving unpaid time spent awaiting work and providing vehicle reimbursement at half the IRS rate.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em><span class=\"wbbw c-gray700\">Veena Dubal<\/span><span class=\"lg:largeTimestamp smallTimestamp c-gray700 lg:fs16\">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"wbbw c-gray700\">Beth Ross, San Francisco Chronicle<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1725646781827{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lensherman\/2024\/09\/06\/why-the-ftc-needs-to-investigate-ubers-anti-competitive-business-practices\/\">Why The FTC Needs To Investigate Uber\u2019s Anti-Competitive Business Practices<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Uber\u2019s actions impact millions of drivers, customers, and businesses across thousands of cities in all 50 states and only could have been implemented by a company with dominant market control. As such, an FTC investigation of Uber\u2019s business practices is warranted to supplement laudable but insufficient regulatory efforts at the state and local levels.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Len Sherman, Forbes<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1775515887500{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scworkerscomp.com\/blog\/update-the-law-on-workers-compensation-benefits-for-uber-drivers#:~:text=UPDATE:%20The%20Law%20on%20Workers,ever%20injured%20on%20the%20job.\">UPDATE: The Law on Workers\u2019 Compensation Benefits for Uber Drivers<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;In California, Proposition 22 classifies app-based drivers as independent contractors, providing occupational accident insurance for injuries up to $1 million in medical expenses and 66% of lost income, but it notably excludes coverage for illnesses, vocational training, and permanent disability benefits found in traditional workers&#8217; compensation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Jeff Guarrera , Associate Workers&#8217; Comp Attorney for SoCal Workers Comp<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1732216535478{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/economy\/2024\/09\/gig-work-california-prop-22-enforcement\/\">California companies wrote their own gig worker law.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/economy\/2024\/09\/gig-work-california-prop-22-enforcement\/\">Now no one is enforcing it<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nearly four years after California voters approved better wages and health benefits for ride-hailing drivers and delivery workers, no one is actually ensuring they are provided, according to state agencies, interviews with workers and a review of wage claims filed with the state.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Levi Sumagaysay, Cal Matters<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1735097131893{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2024\/12\/a-national-rideshare-cooperative-takes-aim-at-uber-and-lyft\">A National Rideshare Cooperative Takes Aim at Uber and Lyft<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;After years of getting squeezed by Uber and Lyft, a national rideshare cooperative is offering drivers equity stakes that Silicon Valley refuses to grant.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Robert Davis jacobin.com<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1741038811922{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2025-03-03-uber-drivers-an-exorbitant-cost-of-working-in-gig-economy\/\">Fueling inequality \u2014 the exorbitant cost of Uber work<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With about 40,000 Uber drivers on South Africa\u2019s streets, the company is keen to tout its value as a provider of income (but not employment) in the country, allowing drivers to control both their hours and commitments, as well as earn a living. However, with the explosion of competition in the e-hailing market over the past few years, profits for Uber drivers have seen a steep decline.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Yeshiel Panchia, The Daily Maverick<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"author-follow pull-right\"><\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1748575209633{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 id=\"8541\" class=\"report-header__title text-2xl font-bold text-black leading-none sm:text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl xl:text-6xl lg:text-white lg:font-bold lg:text-shadow\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2025\/05\/12\/gig-trap\/algorithmic-wage-and-labor-exploitation-platform-work-us\">The Gig Trap<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the US. The growth of digital labor platforms, fueled by the promise that workers are free to set their own schedules and be their own boss, has undermined decades of US labor law regulation and enforcement, denying workers hard-won rights to an adequate standard of living and safe and healthy working condition&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Human Rights Watch<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1754424244668{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/politics\/government\/republicans-want-to-give-uber-workers-benefits-there-s-a-catch\/ar-AA1JSh6o\">Republicans want to give Uber workers benefits. There\u2019s a catch.<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Unions and union-funded nonprofits argue that portable benefits offer a false choice between job security and flexibility, and point to examples like nurses and restaurant workers where employees can still enjoy more flexible environments. The portable benefits approach, they warn, will just hasten the outsourcing of work to contractors or encourage more companies to misclassify their staff. They point to lobbying efforts by companies reliant on contractors, like DoorDash and Lyft, as well as lobbying by advocacy groups funded by Instacart, Uber, and Grubhub&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Rachael Cohen, Pozen Family Center For Human Rights<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1755022306029{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"hero-detail__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.dlapiper.com\/dlapiperknowledge\/globalemploymentlatestdevelopments\/2025\/French-Supreme-Courts-ruling-on-Uber-drivers-A-turning-point-in-platform-workers-misclassification-claims\">French Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on Uber drivers: A turning point in platform workers\u2019 misclassification claims?<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;France\u2019s Supreme Court ruled Uber drivers are independent contractors, rejecting claims of employment status despite prior decisions suggesting a subordinate relationship under Uber\u2019s operational structure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Vanessa Li, GENIE Employment News<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1760082915766{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00380261251335371\">Algorithmic control and resistance in the gig economy: A case of Uber drivers in Dhaka<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;This finding resonates with\u00a0<a id=\"core-bibr29-00380261251335371-2\" role=\"doc-biblioref\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00380261251335371#bibr29-00380261251335371\" data-xml-rid=\"bibr29-00380261251335371\">Lata et al.\u2019s (2019)<\/a>\u00a0research with informal workers in Dhaka. Their study found that the government and its agencies always turned a blind eye when powerless citizens raised their voice for their rights. This finding is in direct contrast with many Global North countries, including the UK and members of the European Union (<a id=\"core-bibr1-00380261251335371-1\" role=\"doc-biblioref\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00380261251335371#bibr1-00380261251335371\" data-xml-rid=\"bibr1-00380261251335371\">Adams-Prassl et al., 2021<\/a>;\u00a0<a id=\"core-bibr31-00380261251335371-2\" role=\"doc-biblioref\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00380261251335371#bibr31-00380261251335371\" data-xml-rid=\"bibr31-00380261251335371\">OECD, 2023<\/a>). Those governments made Uber follow their local rules as well as made the company recognise drivers as employees (<a id=\"core-bibr1-00380261251335371-2\" role=\"doc-biblioref\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00380261251335371#bibr1-00380261251335371\" data-xml-rid=\"bibr1-00380261251335371\">Adams-Prassl et al., 2021<\/a>), whereas the government of Bangladesh did not take the initiative even to change the language of Uber app. Within such a governance structure, Uber drivers had to rely on each other and their informal networks. Neither Uber nor the government provided any safety networks for Uber drivers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Lutfun Nahar Lata, Dpt. of Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1769483129904{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"article-hero__title wp-block-post-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/03\/02\/mit-study-shows-how-much-driving-for-uber-or-lyft-sucks\/\">MIT study shows how much driving for Uber or Lyft sucks<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The upshot? The researchers found profit from ride-hail driving to be \u201cvery low\u201d. On an hourly basis, the median profit was $3.37 per hour, with 74% of drivers earning less than the minimum wage in the state where they operate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Natasha Lomas, Senior Reporter TechCrunch<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1537367832717{border-right-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1640702894939{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/312537\/the-secret-to-the-uber-economy-is-wealth-inequality\/\">The secret to the Uber economy is wealth inequality<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;All that modern technology has done is make it easier, through omnipresent smartphones, to amass a fleet of increasingly desperate jobseekers eager to take whatever work they can get.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Leo Mirani, Quartz<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1640702938970{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/jia-tolentino\/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death?irgwc=1&amp;source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_VigLink&amp;mbid=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_VigLink\">The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cIt does require a fairly dystopian strain of doublethink for a company to celebrate how hard and how constantly its employees must work to make a living, given that these companies are themselves setting the terms. And yet this type of faux-inspirational tale has been appearing more lately, both in corporate advertising and in the news.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1640702987372{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/opinion\/gig-economy-uber-new-york-ride-share\/\">Editorial: Hop a New York ride, Chicago, and demand a better deal for Uber\u00a0drivers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Our city and nation don\u2019t need another gig-economy industry that makes a small percentage of top executives and investors extraordinarily wealthy by exploiting the labor of ordinary workers<\/em><em>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The Editorial Board of the Chicago Sun-Times<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181904922{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"css-ifnb0o ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebolditalic.com\/how-the-gig-economy-profits-off-desperation-47bc5f04d11b\">How the Gig Economy Profits Off of Desperation<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;So if the gig economy is characterized by low pay, a lack of benefits, and a predatory relationship where the business risks are burdened by the worker, why aren\u2019t workers abandoning it? Simple: they have no other options. The gig economy isn\u2019t about helping people who are being left behind; it\u2019s about exploiting them because they have to accept whatever work they can find.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Paris Marx, The Bold Italic<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181931501{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"css-ifnb0o ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.susanjfowler.com\/blog\/2017\/2\/19\/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber\">Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cOn my first official day rotating on the team, my new manager sent me a string of messages over company chat. He was in an open relationship, he said, and his girlfriend was having an easy time finding new partners but he wasn\u2019t. He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn\u2019t help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with. It was clear that he was trying to get me to have sex with him, and it was so clearly out of line that I immediately took screenshots of these chat messages and reported him to HR.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Susan J. Fowler, Blog<\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181946905{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.iu.edu\/stories\/2018\/03\/iub\/releases\/19-myth-of-the-sharing-economy.html\">The Myth of the Sharing Economy and Its Implications for Regulating Innovation<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;States and communities have struggled to protect consumers through regulation of ride-sharing and short-term rental companies such as Uber and Airbnb, because these businesses have successfully used rhetoric and their users to perpetuate a &#8220;myth&#8221; that their mission is primarily altruistic.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Amy Stemler, Emory Law Journal<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181966365{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-article-header__hed\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schallerconsult.com\/rideservices\/automobility.pdf\">The New Automobility: Lyft, Uber And The Future Of American Cities<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Private ride TNC services (UberX, Lyft) put 2.8 new TNC<br \/>\nvehicle miles on the road for each mile of personal driving<br \/>\nremoved, for an overall 180 percent increase in driving on<br \/>\ncity streets<\/em><em>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Bruce Schaller, Principal of Schaller Consulting<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600181983538{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankfield.co.uk\/upload\/docs\/Sweated%20Labour%20-%20Uber%20and%20the%20'gig%20economy'.pdf\">Sweated Labor: Uber And The Gig Economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;We fear that, until such proposals are set in train, a growing number of people in this country will find themselves being subjected to \u2018sweated labour\u2019 \u2013 toiling through anxiety and insecurity, for unsafe lengths of time across seven days a week, in return for poverty pay.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Frank Field &amp; Andrew Forsey, Members Of UK Parliament<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182001812{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2933177\">Will the Growth of Uber Increase Economic Welfare?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;This paper lays out the economic evidence showing that Uber has no ability \u2014 now or in the foreseeable future \u2014 to earn sustainable profits in a competitive marketplace. The growth of Uber is entirely explained by massive predatory subsidies that have totally undermined the normal workings of both capital and labor markets.\u00a0&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Hubert Horan<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1640703146807{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"c-article-header__hed\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpmorganchase.com\/corporate\/institute\/document\/institute-ope-2018.pdf\">The Online Platform Economy in 2018: <\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpmorganchase.com\/corporate\/institute\/document\/institute-ope-2018.pdf\">Drivers, Workers, Sellers, and Lessors<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The growth in the supply of drivers has come alongside a 53 percent decline<br \/>\nin transportation earnings. <\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>J P Morgan Chase &amp; Company Institute<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182040203{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"fs-headline speakable-headline color-body font-base\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/eriksherman\/2018\/09\/27\/uber-driver-lawsuit-shows-how-a-lack-of-power-enables-income-inequality\/#1e18f0c7304d\">Uber Driver Lawsuit Shows How A Lack Of Power Enables Income Inequality<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8221;\u00a0Employees \u2014 or contractors \u2014 found themselves in a difficult position. They are expected to sign documents giving an employer broad protection when it often is impossible to tell in advance how bad things might be in a systemic way at a company. You only learn when it&#8217;s too late.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Erik Sherman, Contributor Forbes<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182054973{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/study-uber-and-lyft-may-be-making-traffic-worse-in-the-denver-metro-area\/ar-BBNU2Qs\">Study: Uber and Lyft may be making traffic worse in the Denver metro area<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8221; He found ride-hailing accounts for an 83 percent increase in the miles cars travel in the metro. Henao said a combined 34 percent of his passengers would have taken transit, walked or bicycled if ride-hailing didn&#8217;t exist.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>\u00a0University of Colorado Denver Ph.D. graduate Alejandro Henao.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182070533{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rhyd.co\/gig-economy\/\">10 Reasons Why the Gig Economy is Broken<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8221; One way or another the free market has found a convenient feedback loop where both the consumer and labor are taken advantage of by the gig economy.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Jack&#8217;s Raging Bile Duct, RHYD<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182087199{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-employment-uber-breakingviews\/breakingviews-hadas-six-economic-reasons-to-hate-uber-idUSKCN1MZ246\">Breakingviews &#8211; Hadas: Six economic reasons to hate Uber<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8221; The second group of economists who should dislike Uber are specialists in labour markets. They know that the standard early industrial practice of pushing down wages as far as possible is bad, for the affected workers and for the whole economy. Uber, however, has not learned the lesson. Its drivers get a rough deal.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Edward Hadas, Financial Columnist<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182101390{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2018-09-25\/gig-economy-workers-are-last-of-marx-s-oppressed-proletarians?srnd=opinion&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=view&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;cmpid%253D=socialflow-twitter-view\">Gig-Economy Workers Are the Modern Proletariat<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe so-called \u201cfuture of labor\u201d looks like a relic from from Marx\u2019s time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 class=\"article__byline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg Opinion<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655844480532{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjsignal.net\/2018\/12\/04\/ubers-policies-put-consumers-at-risk\/comment-page-1\/\">Uber\u2019s Policies Put Consumers At Risk<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Uber misleading its customers is not only unethical but also unsafe \u2014 users of this service need to be made aware of the potential dangers.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Annie Diaz, The Signal<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182116902{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1556194\/the-gig-economy-is-quietly-undermining-a-century-of-worker-protections\/\">The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201d \u2026.It\u2019s also because, besides its much-touted \u201cflexibility,\u201d the gig economy isn\u2019t much of a place to build a career. Instead, over the course of less than a decade, the self-described \u201ctech companies\u201d that connect people to gig work have managed to erode hard-fought labor protections in place for a century.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Ephrat Levni, QUARTZ<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182130939{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lensherman\/2019\/03\/27\/are-lyft-uber-wework-and-bird-the-next-shooting-stars\/#6fba57958eb5\">Are Lyft, Uber, WeWork And Bird The Next Shooting Stars?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUber raced to global market share leadership in the rideshare sector on the strength of over $9 billion of investment from Softbank\u2019s Vision Fund. But its hyper-growth strategy was based on six critical assumptions that have all proved to be false or yet to be proven.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Len Sherman, Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182145804{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/53ee4f0be4b015b9c3690d84\/t\/5b3a3aaa0e2e72ca74079142\/1530542764109\/Parrott-Reich+NYC+App+Drivers+TLC+Jul+2018jul1.pdf\">An Earnings Standard for New York City\u2019s App-based Drivers: July 2018 Economic Analysis and Policy Assessment<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cWe find that a majority of the city\u2019s FHV drivers work full-time and that 85 percent make less than the proposed pay standard. Hourly pay is low in large part because the industry depends upon a ready availability of idle drivers to minimize passenger wait times.\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>James A. Parrott and Michael Reich<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Report for the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182160631{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.claimsjournal.com\/news\/national\/2019\/07\/09\/291851.htm\">Cash This Check for $250, and Sign Away Your Right to Sue<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe technique, which has been used selectively by companies in other industries, may prove to be particularly effective in the gig economy, where workers lack financial stability, said Bryan Schwartz, a Bay Area attorney who\u2019s not involved in the case. It\u2019s an \u201cinsidious\u201d move, he said, because recipients likely can\u2019t afford to seek legal counsel and weigh the benefits of holding out for a potentially larger payout from a lawsuit. \u201cLow-wage workers, who are trying to make ends meet, are especially vulnerable,\u201d said Schwartz, who serves on the board of the California Employment Lawyers Association, a worker advocacy group. \u201cThey\u2019re going to sign and take the pittance to waive all their claims.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ellen Huet, Bloomberg<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602264360773{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/janetwburns\/2019\/11\/08\/will-platforms-like-uber-and-lyft-ever-stop-fighting-the-law-or-their-workers\/#58163bcb7bd7\">Will Uber And Lyft Ever Stop Fighting Laws, Or Their Workers?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cJacobs also emphasized that, while much of the public discussion around AB5 describes it as a change for platform companies, \u2018It\u2019s important to note that the\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/california-supreme-court-s-dynamex-28277\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/california-supreme-court-s-dynamex-28277\/\">Dynamex<\/a>\u00a0decision has already been in place for over a year; that\u2019s settled law in California, by supreme court ruling, that they have ignored,\u2019 he said.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Uber and\/or Lyft have also settled various lawsuits in these areas, and, because of the nature of most drivers\u2019 arbitration agreements, been able to \u2018cabin off\u2019 such opposition and \u2018keep their business going, without changing practices,\u2019 he said. \u2018There\u2019s a good case to be made that they have always operated by flouting the law \u2026 and continuing the practice of: ignore the law, make money, and build up the power to try to change those laws.&#8217;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Janet Burns, Forbes<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182217057{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orfe.princeton.edu\/~alaink\/SmartDrivingCars\/PDFs\/Zoepf_The%20Economics%20of%20RideHialing_OriginalPdfFeb2018.pdf\">The Economics of Ride Hailing: Driver Revenue, Expenses and Taxes<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cResults show that per hour worked, median profit from driving is $3.37\/hour before taxes, and 74% of drivers earn less than the minimum wage in their state. 30% of drivers are actually losing money once vehicle expenses are included. On a per-mile basis, median gross driver revenue is $0.59\/mile but vehicle operating expenses reduce real driver profit to a median of $0.29\/mile. For tax purposes the $0.54\/mile standard mileage deduction in 2016 means that nearly half of drivers can declare a loss on their taxes. If drivers are fully able to capitalize on these losses for tax purposes, 73.5% of an estimated U.S. market $4.8B in annual ride-hailing driver profit is untaxed.\u00a0<\/em><em>\u2018\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Stephen Zoepf, Stella Chen, Paa Adu, and Gonzalo Pozo,\u00a0MIT Center for Energy and<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Environmental Policy Research\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1577812156906\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182247010{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/promarket.org\/uber-and-the-sherlock-holmes-principle-how-control-of-data-can-lead-to-biased-academic-research\/\">Uber and the Sherlock Holmes Principle: How Control of Data Can Lead to Biased Academic Research<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cCompanies control their data. They tend to share that data with researchers who use it only in ways that are blessed by the corporations. Thus, important questions aren\u2019t answerable, or worse, the apparent answers might be biased or incomplete.<br \/>\nIs it just a coincidence that studies to which Uber grants data tend to enhance its public image?<br \/>\nIn studying digital platforms academic research inadvertently becomes part of the platforms\u2019 lobbying effort, a phenomenon I labeled academic capture.<\/em><em>\u2018\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Luigi Zingales,\u00a0Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600182277411{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2796728\">Wage Slave or Entrepreneur?: Contesting the Dualism of Legal Worker Identities<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cI show how in the mid-to late-twentieth century, taxi companies used the independent contractor category to shift the legal and economic risks of business from government and employers to individual drivers. These changes have profoundly shaped the lives and opportunities of vulnerable workers today by rendering precarious their work.<\/em><em>\u2018\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>V.B. Dubal,University of California Hastings College of the Law<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602972008253{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/09\/25\/ubers-investigations-unit-finds-what-went-wrong-rides-its-never-companys-fault\/\">When rides go wrong: How Uber\u2019s investigations unit works to limit the company\u2019s liability<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201c(Special Investigative Unit) investigators are coached by Uber to act in the company\u2019s interest first, ahead of passenger safety, according to interviews with more than 20 current and former investigators.<br \/>\nThe agents are forbidden by Uber from routing allegations to police or from advising victims to seek legal counsel or make their own police reports, even when they get confessions of felonies.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u2018Investigators are there first to protect Uber; and then next to protect the customer\u2019, said Flores, who worked nearly two years for Uber as an investigator and investigations trainer before leaving in November. \u2018Our job is to keep the tone of our conversations with customers and drivers so that Uber is not held liable.&#8217;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Greg Bensinger, Washington Post Editorial Board<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1603293643448{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/labor\/when-companies-blame-the-law-for-exploiting-workers-vox-media\/\">When Exploiting Companies Blame the Law for Exploiting Their Workers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe assault on labor law that has resulted in the broad disappearance of worker protections and traditional, full-time employment has been a decades-long campaign. Whose fault is that? Certainly not the handful of attempts that have been made by legislators and courts to defend workers\u2019 rights, while corporate profits continue to break records amid stagnant wages.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Alexandr Sammon, The American Prospect<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602264947775{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber-assets.com\/image\/upload\/v1575580686\/Documents\/Safety\/UberUSSafetyReport_201718_FullReport.pdf\">Uber reveals widespread sexual assault problem, including hundreds of reports of rape<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c<\/em>In an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uber.com\/newsroom\/2019-us-safety-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extensive new report<\/a>, Uber details for the first time the number of sexual abuse complaints made to the company in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 84-page report reveals several startling statistics:<\/li>\n<li>235 reports of rape in 2018, up from 229 in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>280 reports of attempted rape in 2018, down from 307 in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>1,560 reports of groping in 2018, up from 1,440 in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>376 reports of unwanted kissing to the breast, buttocks or mouth in 2018, down from 390 in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>594 reports of unwanted kissing to a different body part in 2018, up from 570 in 2017.<br \/>\nIn all, Uber received 5,981 reports of sexual abuse between 2017 and 2018.<em>\u2018\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Conor Ferguson, Stephanie Gosk, Rich Schapiro, NBC News<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602263430001{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sfpublicpress.org\/news\/2020-01\/safety-report-from-uber-leaves-out-most-accidents\">Safety Report From Uber Leaves Out Most Accidents<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBut the report does not include thousands of accidents involving the Uber app \u2014 both fatal and nonfatal \u2014 that the firm knows about.<br \/>\nBut by its own account, Uber excluded from its tally of fatal accidents 22 deaths documented in its own records, on the grounds that it could not locate them in the Fatality Analysis Review System, a federal database of traffic deaths. Although Uber cited various reasons why fatalities generally may not appear in this database, the firm offered no details on the excluded cases.<br \/>\nUber also did not include an unknown number of fatalities that occurred during the period when drivers were logged into the app and awaiting ride requests, such as when an Uber driver fatally struck 6-year-old Sophia Liu in San Francisco in 2013.<br \/>\nAnd the company\u2019s report did not include any non-fatal vehicular accidents, which in the general population account for the vast majority of crashes in which someone is hurt, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Seth Rosenfeld, San Francisco Public Press<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602263594028{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-02\/Ride-Hailing%27s-Climate-Risks.pdf\">Ride-Hailing\u2019s Climate Risks:<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-02\/Ride-Hailing%27s-Climate-Risks.pdf\">Steering a Growing Industry toward a Clean Transportation Future<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cA non-pooled ride-hailing trip is 47 percent more polluting than a private car ride.<br \/>\nA typical ride-hailing trip is about 69 percent more polluting than the trips it replaces, and can increase congestion during peak periods.<br \/>\nRide-hailing is an attractive option for many travelers, and can increase mobility for households who lack a private vehicle. Yet in communities across the country, ride-hailing is increasing<br \/>\nvehicle travel, climate pollution, and congestion\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Union Of Concerned Scientists<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611692496107{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/swlh\/ubers-achilles-heel-the-rule-of-law-2ec6fdf870c2\">Uber\u2019s Achilles Heel: The Rule of Law<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe digital economy represents a new layer to globalization, reinforcing the \u2018race to the bottom\u2019 by allowing corporations to completely escape the bonds of rule of law. Global legal structures, which had yet to catch up to the problem of accountability in global supply chains, have been caught flat-footed by the new challenges posed by platform sector scofflaws.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Bama Athreya, Connected2work.org<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602263754264{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marker.medium.com\/uber-and-airbnb-are-parasites-but-they-dont-have-to-be-36909355ac3b\">How Uber and Airbnb Created a Parasite Economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cI would say the biggest problems are the wages and the availability of work. In the beginning, the wages were really quite good. But now, you have multiple problems on the lower-paid apps. Either wages are not enough, or there\u2019s not enough work. You have too many people chasing too little work.<br \/>\nI say they\u2019re parasites because in order to have a satisfactory experience on a gig work platform, you need another employer or another source of income. If you\u2019re a dependent worker, it doesn\u2019t really work. It\u2019s hard to even earn up to poverty level.<br \/>\nThose conventional employers are paying the benefits. They\u2019re paying the salaries and so forth. The gig platforms are living off that. They\u2019re parasites in the literal sense that they need that host to be able to keep those workers coming. In other words, they\u2019re free riders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Kaushik Viswanath, Medium<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602956652699{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/apr\/08\/casual-and-migrant-workers-are-at-the-mercy-of-an-economy-that-punishes-its-victims\">Casual and migrant workers are at the mercy of an economy that punishes its victims<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cYesterday\u2019s critical workers have been left to fight today\u2019s health crisis with no job, no jobkeeper, no income, and no options.<br \/>\nFor their seven years in government, the Liberals have acquiesced to an ongoing business insistence that employment conditions in this country (Australia) be rendered more &#8216;flexible&#8217;. They\u2019ve encouraged award stripping, outsourcing, and the \u201cgig economy\u201d, as well as imposing funding cuts that have obliged public institutions \u2013 such as, infamously, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/dec\/22\/are-you-next-from-mining-to-academia-workers-face-increasingly-insecure-conditions\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">universities<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 into hiring cheaper, casualised forms of labour.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>\u00a0VisVan Badham,\u00a0 Guardian Australia columnist<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655844881898{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamaathreya.medium.com\/gig-workers-v-uber-will-justice-be-done-59839057370d\">Gig Workers v Uber: Will Justice Be Done?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe app-based platform model may simply not be a viable business model in today\u2019s economy. So for the companies, retaining the ability to pay less than minimum wage, avoid taxes, and otherwise externalize costs may be an existential battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>\u00a0Bama Athreya, bamaathreya.medium.com<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602956709704{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/uber-and-lyfts-business-model-may-be-dead-good-53940dcbac34\">Uber and Lyft\u2019s Business Model May Be Dead. Good.<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThis new model, it has become clearer as the fantasy fades, is really the oldest of the old models: That is, disrupting an entrenched business by finding a means \u2014 or excuse \u2014 to reduce labor costs and skirt regulations.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s hardly a new play, of course; using advances in technology to argue labor laws no longer apply to your business has been a practice embraced by bosses since the Industrial Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Brian Merchant, Senior Editor, One Zero<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1602956778335{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2020\/10\/01\/uber-funded-ballot-measure-in-california-would-create-permanent-underclass-of-workers-expert-says\/\">Uber-funded ballot measure in California would create &#8220;permanent underclass of workers,&#8221; expert says<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cProposition 22 is more than just a determination of classification, though. Labor experts fear it will be a major setback for labor rights, the community at large, and that it will send the wrong signal to other states who have been exploring ways to regulate these companies.<br \/>\nThey have basically operated as though the law does not apply to them,&#8221; Ken Jacobs, the chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, told Salon. &#8220;And I think that signals to other states around the country, &#8216;Don&#8217;t try to enforce your laws because we have the political power and resources to defeat you if you do.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1. Very few drivers will actually qualify for health insurance benefits<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2. Drivers won&#8217;t be guaranteed paid leave or paid sick days<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3. Drivers won&#8217;t be able to unionize<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">4.\u00a0 Proposition 22 reverses key worker benefit if there&#8217;s a car acciden<\/span>t&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Nicole Karlis, Salon<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655845977964{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/food-delivery-riders-are-the-21st-century-s-chimney-sweeps-20201125-p56htn.html\">Opinion<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/food-delivery-riders-are-the-21st-century-s-chimney-sweeps-20201125-p56htn.html\">Food delivery riders are the 21st century\u2019s chimney sweeps<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThey do dangerous work for little reward, and our workplace laws ignore them. Their work is unsafe precisely because it is unregulated. No minimum rate of pay means cyclists have an incentive to take risks to make a decent income.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Joellen Riley Munton,\u00a0 professor of law, the University of Technology Sydney.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846092427{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/big-business-spent-millions-to-sway-californians-votes-and-received-billions-in-return-11604540224?mod=article_inline\">Opinion: After spending millions to sway Californians\u2019 votes, companies received billions in return<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIn a troubling precedent, Uber, Lyft and kidney-dialysis clinics win big in two ways after funding expensive California proposition battles that benefit only the companies and their investors\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Therese Poletti, columnist for MarketWatch<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846322191{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inequality.org\/research\/california-gig-workers\/\">Uber and Lyft Notch Another Corporate Victory in the Global Exploitation of \u2018Gig Workers\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cLabor organizing in California is pushing platform companies to take extreme measures to defend their exploitative business model.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Bama Athreya, ineq<\/em><em>uality.org<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847804395{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/02\/16\/doordashs-multimillion-dollar-arbitration-mistake\/\">Opinion: DoorDash\u2019s multimillion-dollar arbitration mistake<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cA civil-justice system in which most low-wage workers cannot, as a practical matter, enforce their rights in court or in arbitration hardly deserves its name. The DoorDash workers\u2019 creative strategy \u2014 one also pursued by thousands of Lyft and Uber drivers in 2018 \u2014 is a way for workers to reclaim some leverage in a legal environment that employers shape to their own benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Charlotte Garden, associate professor, Seattle University School of Law<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655849400161{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.work\/en\/fw\/blog\/ubers-call-for-change-in-europe-shirks-responsibility-while-highlighting-real-challenges\/\">Uber\u2019s Call for Change in Europe Shirks Responsibility while Highlighting Real Challenges<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUber\u2019s white paper is an attempt to narrowly define the parameters within which the debate about platform working conditions can take place. It is corporate lobbying masquerading as progressivism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Shelly Steward, Kelle Howson, Patrick Feuerstein, Pablo Aguera, Fabian Ferrari, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Srujana Katta, Matthew Cole, Mark Graham FAIRWORK<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1617058808688{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-ride-hail-utopia-that-got-stuck-in-traffic-11581742802\">The Ride-Hail Utopia That Got Stuck in Traffic<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cFive years ago, Travis Kalanick was so confident that Uber Technologies Inc.\u2019s rides would prompt people to leave their cars at home that he told a tech conference: &#8216;If every car in San Francisco was Ubered there would be no traffic.&#8217;<br \/>\nToday, a mounting collection of studies shows the opposite: Far from easing traffic, Uber and its main rival Lyft Inc. are adding to congestion in numerous U.S. downtowns.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Eliot Brown, The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655849272228{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qrius.com\/how-airbnb-and-uber-use-activist-tactics-that-disguise-their-corporate-lobbying-as-grassroots-campaigns\/\">How Airbnb and Uber use activist tactics that disguise their corporate lobbying as grassroots campaigns<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIn addition to traditional lobbying, these digital platforms have been cultivating corporate \u201cgrassroots lobbying\u201d initiatives in which they resource and mobilise their users to lobby for deregulation or to block proposals or sanctions from government. They do this by using civil-society practices such as online petitions addressed to politicians, one-on-one meetings with representatives, protests and partnerships with existing civil society groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Luke Yates, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848611615{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/977530\/fake-innovation-gig-companies\">The Fake Innovation Of Gig Companies<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThese stories illustrate an important truth about these gig companies: They are not actually innovative, in the traditional economic meaning of the word. Instead they rely on the most ancient employer technique of all: plain old labor exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ryan Cooper, THE WEEK<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655849220456{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/uber-uturn-worker-rights\">Uber\u2019s Supreme Court fudge could be one of its biggest mistakes yet<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cAll this may sound like a definitive victory for thousands of drivers who joined group action last month, to sue the company and demand it recognise them as workers. But it isn\u2019t. Unions claim that Uber has twisted the Supreme Court ruling, which said that workers are entitled to minimum wage as soon as they log on to the app, not just when they are driving people around. They argue this dilution will mean that drivers could miss out on 40 to 50 per cent of their entitled pay while they are logged on to the app, waiting to be assigned a passenger trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Natasha Bernal, WIRED<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655849056605{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2021-05-28\/uber-flexibility-prop-22\">Uber reneges on the \u2018flexibility\u2019 it gave drivers to win their support for Proposition 22<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cValdez, who is associated with Rideshare Drivers United, says that disappointment in the realities of Proposition 22 was inevitable.<br \/>\n&#8216;The expectation was that the way the companies wrote the law, they would make sure they\u2019d have to pay the least amount of money for anything they did,&#8217; he says.<br \/>\nThrough Proposition 22, he says, &#8216;Uber and Lyft legally made us independent contractors, and allowed themselves to change the system any way they want, to treat us as employees without paying us as employees.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Michael Hiltzik, Columnist Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655848991173{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/why-is-uber-failing\/\">(Why) Is Uber Failing?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUber may prove the archetype of a new corporate model: never actually producing anything of value, never really innovating; only serving as a throughway for investor capital and drawing money out of communities without any obligation or attempt to put something back in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Declan Leary, Associate editor of The American Conservative.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847147004{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/uber-doordash-and-similar-firms-cant-defy-the-laws-of-capitalism-after-all\/21806198\">The flywheel delusion: Uber, DoorDash and similar firms can\u2019t defy the laws of capitalism after all<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIn the flywheel economy hope and hype spring eternal, at least as long as interest rates remain low and capital is essentially free.<br \/>\nBut look deeper and evidence is mounting that business flywheels are not defying the laws of capitalism. The money that went into building them recalls the railway mania among other past speculative investment crazes. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Brett Ryder, The Economist<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655847069116{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/gig-economy-european-commission-law\">The Gig Economy\u2019s Days in Europe Are Numbered<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c&#8217;The majority of the judicial opinion inside and outside of Europe is finding an employment relationship&#8230; There\u2019s still outliers, but I think that is definitely the trend.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/profile\/morgan-meaker\">Morgan Meaker<\/a>, Wired<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846770410{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2021\/08\/10\/unter\/#bezzle-no-more\">End of the line for Uber<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Uber&#8217;s time is up. Uber was never going to be profitable. Never. It lured drivers and riders into cars by subsidizing rides with billions and billions of dollars from the Saudi royal family, keeping up the con-artist&#8217;s ever-shifting patter about how all of this would some day stand on its own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846741572{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dot.la\/proposition-22-california-2020-2654920815\/particle-2\">Q&amp;A: What Overturning Prop 22 Could Mean for the Future of the Gig Economy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe thing about an Uber is that companies figured out that you could have a giant fleet of drivers on the road at all times, with zero fixed cost to the company. The drivers pay for the car; the driver pays their own time; the driver pays gas; the driver pays insurance; the drivers pay if they become injured; and the city picks up the cost of the road maintenance. So the company shifted all the risk and all the fixed costs of the business to the labor force, which was genius from the investing standpoint, but terrible for drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Kate Wheeling &amp; Professor Catherine Fisk<\/i><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846476832{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lpeproject.org\/blog\/the-antitrust-case-against-gig-economy-labor-platforms\/\">The Antitrust Case Against Gig Economy Labor Platforms<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cDiscussion about the relationship between antitrust and labor law, as well as between workers and entrepreneurs, that is confined to a counter-productive either\/or serves no one\u2019s interests except large, dominant employers, who have profited from the inability of any area of law or policy to meaningfully constrain their power. It\u2019s time to put that zero-sum false tradeoff behind us, in favor of a larger vision that recognizes the unity of interest among the disempowered in every corner of the economy and seeks to forge a coalition that might actually have a hope of winning power in this country by securing for its people what they want: a decent standard of living without demeaning service to a brutal plutocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Marshall Steinbaum, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Utah<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1655846443856{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"p-title-value\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/prime\/technology-and-startups\/taken-for-a-ride-how-ola-uber-promised-the-moon-to-drivers-and-failed-to-deliver\/primearticleshow\/92262825.cms\">Taken For A Ride: How Ola, Uber Promised The Moon To Drivers And Failed To Deliver<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBetween digital vows and physical woes exists the world of Uber and Ola. The cab aggregators have failed to deliver on their promises to drivers and customers. As hefty commissions and unfavorable terms continue to hurt drivers, customers are complaining about poor service quality. And these factors are resulting in dwindling business for both.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Kanika Saxina, The Economic Times<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1760773614333{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<h3 class=\"wpb_wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icij.org\/investigations\/uber-files\/uber-global-rise-lobbying-violence-technology\/\">The Uber Files<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icij.org\/investigations\/uber-files\/uber-global-rise-lobbying-violence-technology\/\">The secret story of how the tech giant won access to world leaders, cozied up to oligarchs and dodged taxes amid chaotic global expansion.<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cNow, a new leak of records reveal the inside story of how the ride-hailing giant\u2019s executives muscled into new markets, then managed the fallout, spending gobs of cash on a global influence machine deployed to win favors from politicians, regulators and other leaders, who were often eager to lend a hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>International Consortium Of Investigative Journalists<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1671124713265{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilawnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ISSUE-BRIEF-Taken-for-a-Ride-2.pdf\">Taken\u00a0 For A Ride 2: Accelerating Towards Justice | Issue Brief | December 2022<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network is a membership organization composed of trade union and workers\u2019 rights lawyers worldwide. The core mission of the ILAW Network is to unite legal practitioners and scholars in an exchange of information, ideas and strategies in order to best promote and defend the rights and interests of workers and their organizations wherever they may be. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>The International Lawyers Assisting Workers<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1674005106652{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/whats-a-gig-job-how-its-legally-defined-affects-workers-rights-and-protections-194424\">What\u2019s a \u2018gig\u2019 job? How it\u2019s legally defined affects workers\u2019 rights and protections<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe future of work is not governed by immutable technological forces but involves volitional private and public choices. Navigating to that future requires weighing the benefits gig work can provide\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/15\/business\/economy\/gig-work.html\">some workers with greater economic independence<\/a>\u00a0against the continuing need to protect and bestow rights for the many workers who will continue to play on a very uneven playing field in the labor market.<img data-opt-id=701142951  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/counter.theconversation.com\/content\/194424\/count.gif\"  class=\"optimole-lazy-only \"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\" alt=\"The Conversation\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/> \u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>David Weil, Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1728875329334{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4331080\">On Algorithmic Wage Discrimination<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cRecent technological developments related to the extraction and processing of data have given rise to widespread concerns about a reduction of privacy in the workplace. For a growing number of low-income and subordinated racial minority work forces in the United States, however, on-the-job data collection and algorithmic decision-making systems are having a much more profound yet overlooked impact: these technologies are fundamentally altering the experience of labor and undermining the possibility of economic stability and mobility through work.\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Veena Dubal, UC Law, San Francisco<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1674668284678{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/01\/25\/india-gig-workers-problems\/\">India\u2019s gig economy drivers face bust in the country\u2019s digital boom<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cPer the details shared by the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT), which has amassed more than 35,000 members across the country since early 2020, food and grocery delivery platform workers earn an average of between $0.18-$0.24 per order. This declined between 43-57% from the $0.42 they were getting until the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies have also increased their delivery area radius from 2.4 miles to 12.4 miles, the workers\u2019 union said, which could mean drivers take longer journeys, and thus fewer trips in a working day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Jagmeet Singh, TechCrunch<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1676219957107{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/braveneweurope.com\/gig-economy-project-is-dynamic-pricing-ripping-off-gig-workers\">Gig Economy Project \u2013 Is \u2018dynamic pricing\u2019 ripping-off gig workers?<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;But if dynamic pricing is raising prices for consumers, how can it simultaneously be squeezing the wages of drivers? The answer is that the link between consumers\u2019 prices and drivers\u2019 pay (with Uber taking a commission on each fare) has been broken.<br \/>\n&#8216;One of the areas that can lead to a driver being fired for fraudulent activity is monitoring the driver app and monitoring the passenger app at the same time,&#8217; Farrar says. &#8216;They really don\u2019t want drivers looking at what\u2019s being offered in terms of pricing in real-time. For a driver, there is no such thing as dynamic pricing. It is dynamic pay.&#8217;<br \/>\nUber\u2019s algorithm is setting prices which maximise revenue from customers, and pay which minimises expenditure to drivers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Braveneweurope.com, Gig Ecconomy Project<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1690383092711{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinion\/ny-oped-uber-doordash-grubhub-deliver-poverty-wages-20230726-ucfdufcka5ce7caw2litp4crg4-story.html\">Uber, DoorDash &amp; GrubHub deliver poverty wages: App giants are trying to block NYC rules on minimum pay<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Why, then, are apps suing to stop the rule, if a fair pay standard is inevitable? The longer this is delayed, the less money goes to workers and more stays with the apps. The city has estimated that 60,000 workers will collectively lose $15 million each week that the rule\u2019s implementation is <em>delayed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Terri Gerstein, Director,\u00a0 State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Center for Labor and a Just Economy, and\u00a0 a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1701238287332{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnews.com\/2023\/uber-and-lyft-should-be-made-pay-their-fair-shareby-elizabeth\">Opinion\u2014Uber and Lyft should be made to pay their fair share<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;We\u2019ve all been stopped outside the grocery store to sign petitions to get issues on the 2024 ballot. And we\u2019ve been told that they all do good things for ordinary people. Be careful, though, because these claims are not all true. This year, voters are faced with a set of corporate-backed proposals that claim to support gig workers, but which would actually strip workers of a host of labor and employment rights, create a permanent second class of workers, and let big companies like Uber and Lyft off the hook from following the laws that govern our state. <em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Elizabeth Pellerito, Jasmine Kerrissey, Steve Striffler, and Camilo Viveiros, Jr., Special to the Dorchester Reporter<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1706568829168{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-modern-scientist\/how-ubers-ride-sharing-model-disrupts-urban-transportation-f6847fa1cd89\">How Uber\u2019s Ride-Sharing Model Disrupts Urban Transportation<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cHave you ever wondered how a mobile app is reshuffling the deck in our cities, and indeed, changing the very face of urban transportation? Well, look no further than Uber. Since its inception, Uber, the brainchild of a simple yet powerful idea \u2014 a ride at the touch of a button \u2014 has revolutionized the way we commute. From igniting economic opportunities to fostering cultural exchanges and even reshaping infrastructure, Uber\u2019s ripple effects extend far beyond the confines of transportation\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Jason Benskin, Published in The Modern Scientist<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1711302528981{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/civil-rights\/4550102-minneapolis-just-called-ubers-bluff-other-cities-must-follow-their-lead\/\">Minneapolis just called Uber\u2019s bluff <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/civil-rights\/4550102-minneapolis-just-called-ubers-bluff-other-cities-must-follow-their-lead\/\">Other cities must follow their lead <\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUltimately, Uber and Lyft\u2019s predatory pricing and deceptive tactics harm all of us. Falsely claiming that wage protections will drive up fares seems to be a tactic to pit drivers against passengers and obscure a massive transfer of wealth to Wall Street. Minneapolis, Chicago and more cities have the chance to say enough is enough, that Uber\u2019s bullying has to stop and that racial justice starts with paying drivers (who are mostly people of color) a reasonable wage. It\u2019s time to tell Uber it can no longer take us all for a ride. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Lauren Jacobs Published In THE HILL<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1713930500414{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu\/article\/from-amazon-to-uber-why-platform-accountability-requires-a-holistic-approach\/\">From Amazon to Uber: Why Platform Accountability Requires a Holistic Approach<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cPlatform companies like Uber, Amazon, and Instacart wield immense influence over workers. New research co-authored by Wharton\u2019s Lindsey Cameron offers a framework that integrates different approaches to level the playing field for all users. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Seb Murray, Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1715277386577{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2024\/05\/09\/inside-uber-political-machine\/\">Inside Uber\u2019s Political Machine<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBy spending vast sums on political lobbying, Uber has mounted a multi-pronged assault on the regulatory state. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Katie J. Wells, Declan Cullen, and Kafui Attoh, The New York Review Of Books<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1717362172905{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/want-less-minimum-wage-drive-120000808.html\">Want to make less than minimum wage? Drive for a California rideshare company | Opinion<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cOur study suggests a course correction is needed if gig drivers are to enjoy the protections that California has enacted for all the state\u2019s workers. Unfortunately, Prop. 22 mandates that a 7\/8ths majority of the California legislature is required to make any changes to its provisions. That is, by design, a hurdle too high to clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California at Berkeley. &amp; Michael Reich ,an economics professor UC Berkeley and co-chair of its Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1724884005581{border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\">\n<h3 class=\"wpb_wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/news\/half-uber-lyft-trips-replace-more-sustainable-options\">Half of Uber, Lyft Trips Replace More Sustainable Options<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cStudy Suggests Ways to Make Ride-Hailing More Sustainable and Equitable\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Kat Kerlin\u00a0 UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1739993916988{margin-bottom: 35px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1573426875047\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wageindicator.org\/about\/events\/2024\/facilitating-workers-and-policy-makers-in-the-gig-economy-making-better-informed-decisions-the-case-study-of-the-living-tariff-september-6-2024?utm_source=WageIndicator+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=f063585eb5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_08_10_07_32_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_bd1ac303f1-f063585eb5-&amp;mc_cid=f063585eb5&amp;mc_eid=f88e2a4d08&amp;utm_source=WageIndicator+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=f063585eb5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_08_10_07_32_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_bd1ac303f1-f063585eb5-195977456&amp;mc_cid=f063585eb5&amp;mc_eid=f88e2a4d08\">Facilitating Workers and Policy Makers in the Gig Economy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wageindicator.org\/about\/events\/2024\/facilitating-workers-and-policy-makers-in-the-gig-economy-making-better-informed-decisions-the-case-study-of-the-living-tariff-september-6-2024?utm_source=WageIndicator+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=f063585eb5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_08_10_07_32_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_bd1ac303f1-f063585eb5-&amp;mc_cid=f063585eb5&amp;mc_eid=f88e2a4d08&amp;utm_source=WageIndicator+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=f063585eb5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_08_10_07_32_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_bd1ac303f1-f063585eb5-195977456&amp;mc_cid=f063585eb5&amp;mc_eid=f88e2a4d08\">Making Better Informed Decisions: The Case Study of the Living Tariff &#8211; 9\/6\/2024<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201cThe conference on &#8220;Platform Work and Workers&#8217; Collective Action and Organization&#8221; focused on key issues and, where appropriate, concrete examples, including the challenges of platform work, the rights and status of platform workers, representation and organization of platform workers and more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Marta<em> Kahancova: Director of Research, WageIndicator Foundation; Co-Founder and Managing Director, CELSI,rtijn &amp; Martijn Arets, Gig Economy Expert, WageIndicator Foundation<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1739994266021{margin-bottom: 35px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-humanrights.org\/en\/from-us\/media-centre\/global-brands-including-meta-uber-deliveroo-carrefour-the-pif-linked-to-hundreds-of-cases-of-migrant-worker-abuses\/\">Global brands, including Meta, Uber, Deliveroo, Carrefour &amp; the PIF, linked to hundreds of cases of migrant worker abuses<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The gig economy is a major \u2013 and growing &#8211; concern with companies repeatedly associated with allegations of abuse using gig workers, notably Uber and Deliveroo, both in the top five.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Business And Human Rights Resource Centet<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747895422905{margin-bottom: 35px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"h1 title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nelp.org\/insights-research\/unpacking-uber-and-lyfts-predatory-take-rates\/\">Unpacking Uber and Lyft\u2019s Predatory Take Rates<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;n 2024, the average Uber driver earned less than they had the prior year, while working more. Lyft drivers worked fewer hours in 2024, but earned 14 percent less than they had in 2023. Both companies regularly paid drivers wages less than the applicable minimum wage, while at the same time increasing consumer prices by over 7 percent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Dan Ocampo, National Employment Law Project<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1750741420522{margin-bottom: 35px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrmagazine.co.uk\/content\/news\/half-of-uk-gig-economy-workers-paid-below-minimum-wage\">Half of UK gig economy workers paid below minimum wage<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Half (52%) of UK gig economy workers earn below minimum wage, according to a study by the University of Bristol. Respondents on average earn \u00a38.97 per hour \u2013 around 15% below the current minimum wage, which rose to \u00a310.42 in April. More than three-quarters (76%) of gig workers also experienced work-related insecurity and anxiety.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Millicent Machell HR<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1754838690632{margin-bottom: 35px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/business.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files-efs\/citation_file_upload\/msom.2023.1221.pdf\">Ride-Hailing Networks with Strategic Drivers:<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/business.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files-efs\/citation_file_upload\/msom.2023.1221.pdf\">The Impact of <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/business.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files-efs\/citation_file_upload\/msom.2023.1221.pdf\">Platform Control Capabilities on Performance<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We study the performance impact of operational platform controls, focusing<br \/>\non the interplay with two practically important challenges: (i) Significant demand imbalances prevail across<br \/>\nnetwork locations for extended periods of time so that the natural supply of drivers at a location either falls short of or exceeds the demand for rides originating at this location&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Philipp Af\u00e8che, Zhe Liu, and Costis Maglaras, Columbia Business School<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1756581091566{margin-bottom: 35px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 class=\"text-[28px] @sm:text-[40px] src_newsTitle__tj_vU\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ainvest.com\/news\/gig-economy-labor-shift-valuation-implications-ride-hailing-giants-2508\/\">The Gig Economy&#8217;s Labor Shift: <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ainvest.com\/news\/gig-economy-labor-shift-valuation-implications-ride-hailing-giants-2508\/\">Valuation Implications for Ride-Hailing Giants<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The gig economy\u2019s labor reforms from 2023 to 2025 have rewritten the rules for ride-hailing platforms, forcing companies like Uberand Lyft to navigate a complex web of regulatory, financial, and operational challenges. At the heart of these reforms lies the reclassification of gig workers from independent contractors to employees\u2014or hybrid categories\u2014alongside the introduction of unionization rights. 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