Uber, having prevailed in passing an expensive ballot measure that exempts it from California labor laws, wants to take its new model and message around the world with a brand that sounds like it was stolen from a streaming service: “IC+” — as in “independent contractor-plus.”
“The drivers will still struggle not having employee status, and Uber benefits financially” despite the messaging by Uber, Corbett said. “We’re looking ahead and across the country, ready to champion new benefits structures that are portable, proportional and flexible,” Tony Xu, chief executive of DoorDash, said in a statement.
William Gould, emeritus law professor at Stanford University and a former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, questions whether sectoral bargaining could bring meaningful changes for drivers. The benefits that drivers secure could be “artificial, self-defeating and simply imposed from above,” he said.
The Independent Drivers Guild has had some success with bargaining with more than one company. The group, which is affiliated with the Machinists Union and was started with funding from Uber , negotiates with Lyft and Juno, too. The IDG helped secure a minimum wage and other benefits for drivers in New York City and represents 200,000 ride-hailing drivers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
“Plaintiffs were winning against Uber under the pre-ABC standard,” he added. “What [Prop. 22 has] done is render this group of workers completely outside under any independent examination of their status. It’s preposterous.”
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