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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months agoIn California, anyway. There was a bill/measure whatever the hell to make contractors with services like Uber, DoorDash, etc get treated like normal hired employees, so they would have a minimum wage, guaranteed breaks and lunch, and all the other protections offered to employees here.
MadBob@feddit.nl 10 months ago
vladmech@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Woosh
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How did they do a vote amongst just them? Was it like through the job?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
It was a measure on the ballot in 2016, I think? Maybe 2020? The same as the more recent one that passed giving restaurant employees a bump up to $21/hour in pay without changing the $16/hour state minimum wage.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Paid shills. Look inti the california case further, and you’ll see the companies were lobying their asses off to twist reality. Including several cases where they paid actors or their contractors to puppet the speaking points in ads and on social media.
They didn’t convince the workers, they only had to spend the money to convince the general public.
It worked.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
I don’t think fondly of the people who voted for Trump, either. If you drink the Kool-Aid because the guy handing it out said it was fine, after being warned about the potential outcome of said Kool-Aid repeatedly by everyone else, at some point you share in the blame for the outcome.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I see.