“You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.”–Cesar Chavez
It's a new day . We will continue organizing & ensure gig worker voices are heard. Gig workers are no longer afraid of speak out!
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"When I would watch the news about the Sandinistas, I didn’t see a threat, I saw people that looked like me. And I just felt such a deep sense of solidarity"
profiles Bhairavi Desai, head of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, for Lux
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imagine the trauma of being fired without explanation
now imagine being threatened with that trauma *everyday*
that’s what it’s like to be a rideshare driver or a delivery worker
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Most gig workers find it hard to make ends meet, and lack access to employer-based health insurance, retirement plans or workers' compensation. "The precarious nature of not being protected is front and center every single day," said @WillySolis357.
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🎃 On Halloween — Los Deliveristas (App-based delivery workers) are “Trick-or-Treating” in Search of Living Wages in New York City.
New York City: It’s Time to Deliver $30 Take-Home Pay for 65,00 Deliveristas ✊🏾❤️🚲
#DeliveristaPower #LivingWages #Halloween
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Congrats to the hard work of - DC & MN AGs are suing Shipt for misclassifying delivery workers as independent contractors. So proud of all the folks who have fought for this to happen! ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communi & oag.dc.gov/release/ag-rac
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Breaking: MN @AGEllison & DC @AGKarlRacine both sued gig company @Shipt for underpaying workers and misclassifying them as independent businesses instead of as employees. (FYI, Shipt is owned by @Target) Here's a news story about the DC AG's case: (1/4) theverge.com/2022/10/27/234
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“Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.”
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“The real costs of Prop 22 are clear,” the authors of the National Equity Atlas study conclude. “Uber and Lyft now legally pay their drivers poverty wages.”
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👏🏾 “Uber has agreed to pay New Jersey $100 million in back taxes after the state said the ride-hailing company had misclassified its drivers as independent contractors.”
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“Whittaker differentiated Signal’s strategy from the fast growth mantra of most Silicon Valley tech companies. Signal is not interested in increasing profit or attention on ads, but rather creating a network effect of encrypted communication, she said.”
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is pulling no punches, mapping arc from 3rd Reich use of early computing in Holocaust to contemporary surveillance capitalism. #VE22 ~ why companies like are the antidote, and why we need to be so thoughtful about the intentional design + financing of tech
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Scoop: 90% of Google cafeteria workers (~4,000 people) have quietly unionized with over the past few years.
They've secured higher wages, retirement benefits & free healthcare.
from & me.
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in 2020, noticed other Shipt workers like him reporting changes to their pay on Facebook. to investigate, Willy started collecting screenshots and records of workers' pay to compare earnings over time. Shipt was moving to a black-box algorithm, and it was bad.
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UFCW worked closely with behind scenes lobbying govt to NOT make drivers ‘employees’. With comments from myself, .
“Union worked with Uber to ensure Ontario government would not classify gig workers as employees, documents show”
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I was interviewed by about paychange and story about how we fought back. Skip to minute 38:00 for the story. twitter.com/tnewmstweet/st
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Excited to see my research on Amazon Ring used by in a great piece investigating a new wave of laws that turn package theft into a felony. Ring makes package theft more visible, making it useful for lawmakers seeking to justify increased policing and surveillance
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NEW: Critics say harsh penalties for package theft are an ineffective response that can lead to increased surveillance of communities and harm people of color. Ida B. Wells fellow @lamthuyvo reports for @typeinvestigate and @GuardianUS: typeinvestigations.org/investigation/
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In our FOOD issue, and interview about the Gig Workers collective:
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Such a good session. Technologists "co-designed a tool - an SMS chat bot - that collected & analyzed over 200 worker's pay histories to perform a “real world” audit of Shipt’s new algorithm. This audit showed that the new algorithm effectively cut over 40% of workers’ pay!"
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HAPPENING NOW! The Community Keynote on auditing payment structures from online platforms!
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Super proud of 's work supporting gig workers, his long partnership with , and on participatory data research and breaking apart black box algorithms. youtube.com/watch?v=muOgRC
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In Seoul, South Korea at Facct 2022 conference.
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In March, with gas prices rising, Uber and Lyft announced they would charge customers a gas surcharge.
We surveyed hundreds of self-identified gig workers and 90% told us those surcharges were "not sufficient."
Survey results→ home.coworker.org/gig-work-gas-p
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Because of us as workers we won this concession from Target for violating our rights and telling us we aren't allowed to discuss pay and work conditions. This boss had to hand out this notice to let workers know what our rights are and that Target will respect them.
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. cuts payroll, tells us there's no hours to be had, yet they have the payroll to bring in an army of managers into Store 1292 to union bust. We still get backup calls for registers and online orders, but the army of managers spying on us never answer those backup calls.
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Congratulations to . Even without negotiating a first contract, you have already forced CEO Howard Schultz to announce a 25% increase in wages for Starbucks workers.
Imagine what workers will be able to do together with a union!
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Speaking truth to power!
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Take 1 minute and watch Chris Smalls of @amazonlabor shut down Lindsey Graham:
"You forgot that the people are the ones who make these companies operate."
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“I quickly found out it’s sending me to gas stations I wouldn’t normally go to...They’re either too far away or the price is too high,” said . “I would much rather the [gig] companies pay us more per mile...rather than play games with discount apps like GetUpside"
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. and This is shameful! $7 batch pay for an order that would take over an hour to shop and deliver. #instacart #gigworkers #workerexploitation #unfairwages
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Last month, , , , and joined together to discuss what it really means to call an algorithm your boss.
Today, we’re excited to share the conversation.
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the way "working time" is calculated for gig worker "benefits" under Prop22 and HB2076 is... very confusing
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Took a closer look at the two state-wide gig policies currently in effect in California (Prop 22) and Washington (HB 2076).
Even though both laws were lobbied for by gig companies, I was surprised to see how different they were in terms of their treatment of ‘working time’
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I’ve been closely covering the scrappy Amazon Labor Union since it formed last April. Last week I embedded with ALU organizers as they made history.
I talked to 21 ALU organizers, workers, lawyers & wrote about how they pulled off this stunning victory.
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Great things are happening in my life and with our organizing efforts. Still in works but I can see the light 😁
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Received my copy of Logic School yearbook. I really enjoyed being a part of the 2021 Cohort and happy to see our shared experience in this format. Thank you for all your work in making Logic School such a meaningful experience.
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", a gig worker based in Texas, said the various announcements [like Uber and Lyft's gas surcharges] are 'designed in a way to make it sound like they're doing everything they can to take care of the drivers when in reality they're not.'"
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i took a look at the various efforts the gig economy companies have announced in recent days to address how fuel prices are impacting their drivers:
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