Seattle gig workers fought back against unfair deactivations by app corporations like DoorDash and UberEats - and we WON. Read about how these protections changed one new father’s life.
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Workers in the Seattle Times: KEEP PAYUP IN PLACE
Is Seattle summer weather finally heating up or is our blood boiling because Council President Sara Nelson and the app corporations are still trying to cut gig workers’ pay?
To catch you up: Nelson has been on a reckless, bewildering mission to rob gig workers of the right to minimum wage. Together with the app corporations, she has been championing a deeply unpopular proposal that the corporations wrote to gut workers’ wages, take transparency rights away from both customers and workers, and allow corporations free rein to charge junk fees that harm us all.
But despite Nelson and the app corporations shutting us out of their back-door deliberations as they try to undo our right to minimum wage, workers continue to organize hard and make our voices heard.
Just this week, The Seattle Times published Seattle delivery driver Mupopa Tshibuabua’s op-ed calling on the council to keep PayUp in place. You should read it (it’s worth the two minutes, we promise!) and >> share it on your channels << to amplify the voices of actual workers who are finally earning a living wage doing gig work.
“In the eyes of these companies, we’re just inventory. But we are people with lives and families. We won the right to get paid minimum wage after expenses. Now the companies are attacking the law because they don’t want workers elsewhere to believe that something like that is possible. Seattle shouldn’t fall for it. The Seattle City Council should keep the law in place.”
Workers still need your help. We’ve managed to hold off the corporations’ hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth in lobbying efforts and Council President Nelson’s bizarre priority mission to slash gig workers’ wages up ‘til now – but she’s still trying, even though 82% of Seattle voters do not support what she’s doing.
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The Center for American Progress has just released a report about workers’ rights in the gig economy, and it's a big step in making sure gig workers are included in the national conversation about workers’ rights!
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