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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 panic systems, photo verification of passengers, and other protocols. At the law enforcement level,...

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 situations where they become vulnerable to all manner of exploitation, be it taxi medallion debt to...

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 Amazon and Uber to railroads and meatpacking plants - are lobbying states and the federal government to p...