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[Link] Uber drivers tell Senate inquiry of abuse, false complaints and suspensions during Covid
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Uber drivers in Sydney and Melbourne have been temporarily suspended from the service for asking customers to wear face masks in their cars, a Senate committee has been told.
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[Link] New York City Taxi Drivers Win Debt Deal After 15-Day Hunger Strike
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has declared victory in its struggle with the city government that had made millions artificially inflating the price of taxi medallions and then left taxi drivers to suffocate under debt as those prices plummeted in the age of Uber.
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[Link] Uber Wants In On All That Positive Hertz-Tesla Press
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, Hertz announced it is buying 100,000 Teslas as part of a massive push into electric vehicles. This is a smart move by Hertz, because renting electric vehicles, especially in the U.S., is currently very difficult.
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[Link] Lyft Has Received More Than 4,000 Sexual Assault Reports
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The report, released Thursday, breaks down sexual assault into five categories, including non-consensual sexual penetration, attempted sexual penetration, and non-consensual touching and kissing of body parts.
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[Link] UPDATE 1-China to cap how much ride-hailing platforms can take from drivers
Read: 26/8/2021 www.reuters.com
SHANGHAI, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities will impose a cap on the percentage ride-hailing platforms can take from drivers’ fees, an official from the Ministry of Transport said on Wednesday.
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[Link] Labor demands Uber shape up or shut down
Read: 22/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
Labor has questioned whether transport giant Uber should be allowed to keep operating in NSW after the industry regulator revealed a systematic failure by the company to report safety problems, check drivers were doing mandatory training and stop them clocking up to 17-hour stints on the road.
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[Link] Fake Uber driver admits sexually assaulting two ‘vulnerable’ women he lured into his car in Melbourne
Read: 6/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
A Melbourne man has admitted raping one “remarkably vulnerable” woman and sexually assaulting another after pretending to be a ride-share driver.
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[Link] How to Read Uber and Lyft's Purposefully Confusing Earnings Reports
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
For years, Uber and Lyft have claimed that profitability is just around the corner (or used accounting tricks to claim that they’re making money).
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[Link] Uber, Lyft Introduce Prop 22 Clone to Undermine Labor Law In Massachusetts
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s nearly been a year since Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates wrote Proposition 22—a ballot measure that exempted them from following California labor laws—and spent $220 million on a deceptive campaign to pass it.
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[Link] ‘We owe it to our couriers’: Menulog trials employee rights for workers
Read: 12/4/2021 www.smh.com.au
One of Australia’s largest food delivery platforms, Menulog, has broken with the industry and declared it will be the first to give many of its couriers rights to a minimum wage and superannuation contributions by directly employing them.
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[Link] Uber gave drivers more control to prove they're independent. Now the company is taking back control because drivers actually used it.
Read: 7/4/2021 www.businessinsider.com
In late 2019, California lawmakers passed AB-5, hoping to make it harder for companies such as Uber to skirt labor laws and off-load healthcare and unemployment-insurance costs to taxpayers by misclassifying workers as contractors.