By Preetika Rana Close Preetika Rana and Christine Mai-Duc Close Christine Mai-Duc Oct. 28, 2020 7:33 am ET Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and DoorDash Inc. are spending tens of millions of dollars and flooding voters with messages in a neck-and-neck battle to preserve their current business model in California.
Defeat for the companies in their home state also could set a precedent for battles in other U.S. states and in other countries where the gig-worker model has been challenged. Uber was forced to reclassify its food-delivery drivers as employees in Geneva last month. Massachusetts sued Uber and Lyft over alleged driver misclassification in July.
The companies’ campaign said it is on track to spend more than $82 million on television and radio ads by Election Day. Opponents say they expect to spend more than $11 million on ads by then. Uber says part-timers account for most of its drivers. In the last three months of 2019—the last full quarter before the coronavirus pandemic—less than 10% of its California drivers were online for 40 hours or more a week, the standard for full-time U.S. employees. Those drivers accounted for a quarter of trips.
Had to quit doordash too dangerous plus they changed % of orders you had to accept which made it impossible to earn enough doing it anymore without driving 12hrs a day.
Wtf TonyBobulinsky
It's not the economy but the money, stupid!
If you don't live in California, you'd be shocked at the saturation of political ads relating to state propositions. Almost every local commercial is about one. Hundreds of millions handed to TV station conglomerates by mysterious special interests.
They have been screwing their drivers for years and NOW they want support LOL ScrewEm Maybe they should have kept paying their drivers decent fares.
I tell you Don I'm f**king ready for some justice!,the bull sit that these dems get away with is f**king unbelievable!
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