Uber and Lyft drivers in California are filing a lawsuit claiming Prop 22 violates the state’s constitution. The ballot measure, which passed last November, allows the gig economy companies to avoid having to classify their workers as employees.
A collection of rideshare drivers and labor unions filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to overturn a recent California ballot measure that enshrined the non-employee status of gig workers, arguing the new law is unconstitutional.
We received news last week of the death of Fred Hirsch ((Nov. 11, 1933 – Dec.15, 2020), a true working class hero. Fred was a giant in the struggle for all human rights, especially labor rights, and a true internationalist. He was Vice President of the Plumber & Pipefitters Local 393 of Santa Clara and San Benito Counties in California. His activism was always rooted in his being a worker and a union member.
Fred had a significant and continuing impact on us at the Alliance for Global Justice. He was a founder of our Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee. He not only proposed its name, but the two points of its mission: to end US labor’s dependency on government funding and oversight of its international relations; and to develop a new model of direct, worker to worker solidarity.