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Coronavirus Is Speeding Up the Amazonification of the Planet - 23 décembre 2020
As restaurants, bars, and local shops close down, platform-based monoliths are vacuuming up customers and jobs
There are always parties who profit in times of crisis, and so it goes with our ever-accelerating global pandemic. For toilet paper manufacturers and supermarket chains and, say, a pair of grifter (...)
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Gig Companies Like Uber Are Now Lobbying to Change Labor Laws Nationwide - 23 novembre 2020
Prop 22 was only the beginning
Last week, a confident Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive of Uber, told investors that Proposition 22 was only the beginning. The contentious ballot measure, which was voted into law by millions of Californians this month, allows Uber and Lyft to subvert a new state labor law that (...)
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La Californie permet désormais aux entreprises de technologie de rédiger leurs propres lois - 19 novembre 2020
Objet d’une campagne de propagande qui a coûté plus de 200 millions de dollars, l’électorat californien a adopté la « Proposition 22 » soutenue par Uber et Lyft, excluant définitivement les travailleurs des « plates-formes » en ligne de la protection du travail.
Le 3 novembre, les électeurs californiens ont adopté la (...)
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Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You - 2 octobre 2020
Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers. Now the pandemic is creating a boom in the industry.
Airbnb, battered by the pandemic recession, announced in May that it would be laying off a quarter of its (...)
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After Uproar, Instacart Backs Off Controversial Tipping Policy - 25 juin 2020
The gig economy’s work force is fighting back, and in some cases, it’s winning.
On Wednesday, Instacart, the Silicon Valley upstart that delivers groceries and other household items to customers through an app, reversed a tipping policy that had outraged workers, who accused the $7 billion company of cheating them (...)
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Americans Keep Clicking to Buy, Minting New Online Shopping Winners - 15 mai 2020
Online sales in the United States have surged since the middle of March, when shelter-in-place measures shuttered brick-and-mortar stores throughout the country.
While the shutdowns immediately altered how people spent their money, the patterns have continued to shift as the weeks have gone on, new data shows, (...)
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Gig workers among the hardest hit by coronavirus pandemic | World Economic Forum - 26 avril 2020
Gig workers are quitting jobs due to a fall in demand and safety concerns.
The majority of gig workers now have no income due to COVID-19.
Almost 70% of gig workers were not satisfied with the support provided by the company they work for.
Gig workers are among the hardest hit economically by the coronavirus (...)
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Pandemic Erodes Gig Economy Work - The New York Times - 22 avril 2020
Gig companies promoted their flexible hours as an economic lifeline for workers. In the coronavirus outbreak, it has been anything but.
SAN FRANCISCO — It was just after 11 a.m. last Wednesday when Jaime Maldonado, 51, pulled his rented Nissan into a lot outside San Francisco International Airport. He figured he (...)
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Amazon workers walk out over lack of protective gear amid coronavirus | Technology | The Guardian - 1er avril 2020
More than 100 workers went on strike at a New York City facility after reports of multiple employees testing positive for Covid-19
Amazon workers walked out of a New York City facility on Monday, going on strike and demanding increased protective gear and hazard pay as they work through the coronavirus pandemic. (...)
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Coronavirus Exposes Workers to the Risks of the Gig Economy | WIRED - 15 mars 2020
Drivers for Uber and Lyft in Seattle say demand for rides has plummeted, and they have few workplace benefits to fall back on.
For the past nine years, Mandolin Noir has taken care of other people’s pets around Seattle, often working through companies like Rover and Wag. The work is steady ; she visits the dogs (...)
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Coronavirus Outbreak : What Happens to the Gig Economy ? - The Atlantic - 7 mars 2020
The shadow of the new coronavirus finally reached American shores this week, as markets jittered downward and new cases crept up. The scope of any outbreak here is not clear, but experts suspect that the virus will become widespread. While the disease, known as COVID-19, is a global phenomenon, the response to it (...)
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AB 5 is already changing how Uber works for California drivers and riders - Los Angeles Times - 6 mars 2020
For years, Uber drivers have had a few requests. They’ve wanted to be able to see where passengers were going before agreeing to take them. They’ve wanted to know exactly how much Uber was keeping from each fare. Above all, they’ve wanted to make more money.
Uber’s frequent response, when it deigned to respond at all (...)
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« En Californie, le syndicalisme est redevenu cool » - 5 février 2020
La mobilisation pour les questions sociales et les conditions de travail est plus particulièrement spectaculaire dans la Silicon Valley, rapporte Corine Lesnes, correspondante du « Monde » à San Francisco, dans sa chronique.
Chronique. Toujours à contre-courant – ou à l’avant-garde, comme on voudra –, la Californie peut (...)
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Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company’s climate failures | Technology | The Guardian - 29 janvier 2020
Employees ‘needed to stand up for what’s right’ despite policy barring workers from speaking about business
Hundreds of Amazon employees defied corporate policy to publicly criticize the company for failing to meet its “moral responsibility” in the climate crisis.
More than 340 tech workers at Amazon used the hashtag (...)
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Gig Workers Are Forming the World’s First Food Delivery App Unions - 16 janvier 2020
In less than two weeks, Uber Eats and Foodora couriers in Japan and Norway have formed the first unions representing delivery app workers.
There is a case to be made that workers on food delivery platforms have it the worst when it comes to precarious pay and dangerous working conditions in the gig economy. Apps (...)
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En Californie, victoire décisive pour les chauffeurs d’Uber - 11 septembre 2019
En approuvant un texte requalifiant les chauffeurs et livreurs indépendants des plateformes de VTC en employés, le Sénat du Golden State ouvre la voie à une remise en cause radicale de l’économie des services à la demande de l’ère numérique.
L’économie des plateformes en mode ubérisée a-t-elle vécu ? En adoptant mardi soir (...)
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La Californie requalifie en salariés les chauffeurs d’Uber et Lyft - 11 septembre 2019
La loi, qui met fin au statut de travailleur indépendant pour les entreprises de la « gig economy », menace le coeur du modèle économique des VTC. Selon la banque Morgan Stanley, le statut de salarié des chauffeurs va augmenter les coûts des deux applis leader de 35 %.
L’Etat où Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Doordash et la (...)
