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Juansilvaphoto.com As it became clear that many workplaces – essential and less so – would remain open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, ALIGN became a key player in a coalition of 70 unions, workers’ centers and nonprofits that have pushed the NY HERO Act. The bill sets enforceable workplace standards for testing, PPE, social distancing, hygiene and more. Maritza Silva-Farrell has led ALIGN, an alliance of labor and community organizations, since 2016. 52. Charlene Obernauer Executive Di...

If you take Uber and Lyft, you’ve probably realized some higher fares and longer wait times.

The loans came as Uber and gig economy companies added billions to their stock values after defeating an effort to make drivers employees.

Updated on March 14, 2021 at 5:52 pm NBCUniversal Media, LLC Police have arrested a 25-year-old man who, according to law enforcement, kidnapped and sexually assaulted an Uber driver in the southwest suburbs before driving to Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, authorities said. Andrew Anania was apprehended in the 2300 block of South Central Park Avenue Sunday following an investigation by several law enforcement agencies including the suburban Major Case Assistance Team, the United Stat...

Rideshare drivers are being increasingly targeted by carjackers, according to the Independent Drivers Guild, a group aiming to obtain more protections for their members as carjackings increase in the city. The group has released a list of several demands including passenger verification, using mandatory profile photos, as well as a voice-activated panic button. "We can not get on the app without taking a picture without a face mask on, but when people get in our cars we have no idea who they ar...

The news of the task force’s actions is especially welcome for rideshare drivers, who have been targeted in a string of recent thefts. “The fear is very real,” Kevin Nelson, the organizer for the Independent Drivers Guild, said. “Drivers feel like they are working for practically nothing with a target on their back.” The guild presented a list of requests to Uber and Lyft on Tuesday, calling for additional measures to be taken to protect drivers. Those measures include voice-activated...

It’s not necessarily because of low barriers to entry. In fact, over the past decade the barriers became unbelievably high, as policymakers and predatory lenders spent years artificially inflating the price of a taxi cab medallion — the city permit required to own a yellow cab — pushing many taxi drivers into spiraling debts that have led to multiple taxi drivers committing suicide. But despite all that, the barriers are even more prohibitive in many other sectors, pushing immigrants into...

Congrats on surviving this wild first week of 2021. Outside all-things political, a few labor developments happened that are worth noting. Also, shortly before the mob of Trump supporters wreaked havoc on the U.S. Capitol, I caught up with Dr. Timnit Gebru, the prominent AI ethics researcher who said she was fired from Google last […]

Major U.S. companies are lobbying in a scrum for early vaccine Christopher Rowland, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Jacob Bogage, Abha Bhattarai and Laura Reiley, The Washington Post Dec. 20, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Uber and Lyft, which consider their drivers independent contractors, not employees, are making their size and organization a key part of the appeal for prioritization.  (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty Images 2019 Companies across America - from Amazo...