Excited to be part of this event with Alvaro Bedoya! RSVPs required, see you there NYC: eventbrite.com/e/building-wor…

Ever heard of 'The Coalition for Workforce Innovation' or 'Flex'?

These innocuous-sounding front groups are actually formed & funded by app corporations like Uber & Lyft in order to turn stable, secure employment into 'gig' work.

Read about it here 👉 powerswitchaction.org/resources/disr…

A sympathetic Supreme Court has emboldened businesses to bring more challenges to agencies’ power. 'What we’ve seen is this resurgence of corporations challenging the basic authority of administrative agencies to do their basic tasks' nytimes.com/2024/04/24/bus…

Those bullying and retaliation tactics from app companies in NYC? Turns out they're part of a national playbook used to exploit workers and confuse customers -- as revealed in this new report from National Employment Law Project and PowerSwitch Action

🚨NEW: Uber is throwing a fit in Minneapolis over paying drivers fairly.

We’ve studied their tactics since 2018 & found it’s part of a larger pattern.

Here are 3 tactics we found that corps like Uber & Lyft use to exploit communities across the country 👉powerswitchaction.org/resources/disr…

New research w/ National Employment Law Project reveals 3 big tactics ridehail corporations use over + over to get their way:

1) BUY: pouring $ into legislation, campaigns, lobbyists
2) BULLY: using threats, outsized power, pressure & influence
3) BAMBOOZLE: spreading misleading narratives & division

proud to be here witnessing history with you all

Why we need feminist economics 😬

Big deal! This bill would require large corporations to pay into social security and Medicare for their workers (both independent contractors and employees) and is a big step towards stopping corporations from shirking their responsibilities to their workers.

This is a HUGE win. Forced arbitration is a root cause of so much worker exploitation-- misclassification, algorithmic management etc--because workers have no viable way to challenge these structural issues.

Sorry man, forced arbitration and misclassification made this your problem. Cities should be especially insistent on setting industry-specific minimum wages where employers cheat the system to avoid unions and enforcement of generally applicable wage laws.

In an op-ed for the Minnesota Reformer, Terri Gerstein & Laura Padin team up to urge #Minnesota lawmakers to see Uber & @Lyft's threats to leave the state as a 'fearmongering rejection of the notion that democratically enacted laws should apply to them.' minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/08/ube…

.Uber Lyft say they'll leave Minneapolis bc of its new driver min wage, but there's a bigger picture: These companies go bananas when gov't anywhere (Austria, Phoenix, Quebec) passes laws to constrain them. Laura Padin & I wrote about it Minnesota Reformer 1/ minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/08/ube…

My kids were excited for this trip!

Come work with me!

Wow. Wow. Wow.

Uber’s model depends on the myth of independence and the suggestion that your time and money is your own. But drivers’ time and money serve Uber’s profits—this is subminimum wage work.

Hell yeah.

App-based #workers deserve the same protections all employees are guaranteed. This rule is an important first step towards closing corporate loopholes.

🧵Today, the U.S. Department of Labor announced how it determines whether a worker is an #independentcontractor or #employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The rule adopts the framework which asks: is the worker in business for themselves? Read NELP’s statement here: nelp.org/news-releases/…