Uber drivers staged a protest outside of the Uber CEO’s house in San Francisco today by AngelAuYeung
Since AB5’s passage, Uber, Lyft, Doordash and other tech companies that rely on gig workers have spent $110 million on a new ballot measure for the November election, called Protect App-Based Drivers & Services, which would carve out an exemption for their drivers.
“Our demands are very simple,” said Cherri Murphy, an Uber driver who joined the protest outside of Khosrowshahi’s house. “Drop the ballot measure. Accept yourselves to AB5. You’re not only sidestepping democracy, you’re further ensuring your workers will be kept in poverty forever.”Protesters also pointed out on Wednesday that drivers are even more vulnerable amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar, an elected official who represents several districts in the city, also spoke at the protest, expressing solidarity with the rideshare drivers. “During a public health crisis, it’s immoral, it’s irresponsible to deny workers their basic rights,” said Mar. “We cannot and will not stand for this. Uber and Lyft and these other corporations must do the right thing, and more importantly they must follow the law and properly classify their drivers as employees.
Stacey Wells, a spokesperson for the Protect App-Based Drivers & Services measure, said in a statement to: “By a 4:1 margin drivers have said they want to remain independent contractors. They don’t want to be employees. That’s because 80 percent of drivers are part time and drive fewer than 20 hours a week and most drive less than 10. They’re driving to supplement income around other jobs and life responsibilities and wouldn’t be able to work as full time employees.
The protest was organized by We Drive Progress and Gig Workers Rising, two advocacy organizations that are made up of rideshare drivers across the country.
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