Minneapolis mayor vetoes minimum wage bill for Lyft, Uber drivers: ‘An inexcusable betrayal of Minneapolis workers’

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• malloc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow, he negotiated a contract with Uber only. Lyft drivers fucked. Drivers will probably flee to Uber for higher guarantees. Will Lyft compete to retain their talent or continue to pay the minimum? Or will they drop out of the city entirely and leave Uber as the de facto monopoly in drive sharing?

  Mayor pretty much gave a middle finger to its people with the veto. I wonder how much the mayor was wined and dined to ignore 8 months of work by the city and consultants

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LMFAO, it’s a verbal contract bro, they aren’t required to do anything. They won’t do anything. This was just purely fucking over the people.

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    • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Verbals binding. Hope there’s audio of that conversation.

      And any gumption to hold them to their word. Both of them.

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• DrMango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Clickbait title.

  In his veto message, Frey wrote he “secured a commitment from Uber” that drivers picking up passengers in Minneapolis or driving within the city will make the city’s minimum wage of $15 an hour. The company also committed to paying Uber drivers at least $5 for any trip in the metro area.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This context means nothing. They made a law protecting workers, the mayor vetoed it. Uber is much happier with this. And Lyft, who made no agreement, is ecstatic!

    Yay corporations!

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    • malloc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Uber is happy because they will know drivers will flee to their platform for higher guarantees. Whether Lyft will remain in the city or compete is something we will find out.

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also all people taking Ubers and Lyfts benefit, as they are cheaper. Yay poor people!

      Also Uber and Lyft drivers will get more dates and already make above the min wage, based on existing data. Yay Uber and Lyft drivers!

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  • wagoner@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s fortunate that Uber is famous for following the rules.

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  • fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not a clickbait title, the original bill covered all ride-sharing. He only struck at deal with Uber, and Uber only struck a deal so bills like this would spread and lead to them having to pay fair wages in other cities. He played the role of a corporate patsy and threw a hard-won citizens-supported bill in the trash in exchange for a small face-saving gesture.

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  • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like a reasonable trade-off, likely at the expense of ride prices though. I hope Minneapolis has a viable public alternative for those who used the rideshares to get around and might be priced out by the increase, whenever it arrives

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    • Caradoc879@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You know what’s better than easily broken “agreements”? Actual fucking laws.

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• Pacers31Colts18@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I used to ride share drive part time. I don’t think there is anyone who does strictly Uber or strictly Lyft. You do both to get more money.

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