Caravan of Uber Drivers in Orange County (USA) Against Proposition 22
Opponents of the shameful Proposition 22 from companies Uber, Lyft and DoorDash, including drivers, labor organizations and elected officials, arrived in central Orange County on Friday.
If approved, the initiative would classify drivers who work for transportation and delivery companies as self-employed.
Being a freelancer in these companies is undoubtedly being subjected to labor exploitation, as they affirm after what seemed like a flexible job, the brightness began to disappear, due to a decrease in wages.
A motorcade made its way from Santa Ana City Hall to Anaheim City Hall, culminating in a press conference in Orange.
Marie Harrison, 71, of Garden Grove, said she started driving for Uber five years ago.
She was one of the organizing members of the Rideshare Drivers United caravan.
“In 2015, when I started driving, I was making $ 1.40 per kilometer,” Harrison said. Today, it’s 80 cents with additional bogus charges built in, meaning the fee has been reduced by 70% for drivers.
I now have 200,000 miles on my car without a penny back for maintenance, repairs, insurance and taxes. The fact is that drivers own the fleet used by Lyft and Uber, so we should be paid for the use of our vehicles. “
Harrison, who raised four children in Huntington Beach, said she’s not sure how she’s supposed to buy another car if hers breaks down, adding that people have asked her why she doesn’t get “a real job.”
“I tell them, ‘Okay, do you go when you’re 71 and try to get any kind of job? There is no way. They won’t hire you.
The disruptive companies Uber, Lyft and DoorDash have contributed more than 185 million dollars for the campaign to support proposition 22, through marquees, press, television, internet, social networks, email, etc. they have been filled with a sham to support the proposal.
The advertising runs counter to the AB5 Act, recently passed legislation that requires bogus self-employed workers to be reclassified as employees and given job protections such as minimum wage, sick leave and unemployment insurance.
Trucking companies have claimed that reclassifying their drivers as employees is an unsustainable model for them.
Josh Newman, a Democrat running for state Senate in the 29th district, argues that the ballot initiative is more than an attempt to repeal state law.
“What we are seeing is the value of money, the impact of money on our politics. Transportation companies have spent more than $ 185 million in support of Proposition 22.
That is nothing less than an attempt to buy a stock, to buy its part of the California state constitution, and we cannot allow that to happen because it would be an enormously bad precedent. We will all regret it.
Gloria Alvarado, executive director of the Orange County Federation of Labor, pointed to a giant inflatable rat behind her as she addressed rally attendees, saying, “This is greed. That’s how bad they get.
“There is no other better investment in our communities for our economies than a well-paid worker. We consume, we vote, we spend our money, we live, we pay rent, we pay taxes. What else can we say? We are our communities ”.
California polls predict Uber and Lyft will lose Proposition 22
Uber Driver Caravan in Orange Against Proposition 22
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