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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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Burrito Delivery Makes No Sense - 14 novembre 2020
The economics of delivery apps stinks. Uber is offering to buy the food delivery company Postmates to make it stink a little less — for them.
It’s annoying that everything big companies do is shrouded in mystery and obfuscation. I’ll give you some straight talk.
Why is Uber offering to buy the food delivery company (...)
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Uber Drivers Launch Legal Action Over ‘Robo-Firing’ By Algorithm - 13 novembre 2020
A UK-based union that represents gig economy workers has filed legal action against Uber over the use of an algorithm to dismiss drivers.
App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU) has filed the action against the “robo-firing” in the Netherlands, where Uber’s international headquarters are, in relation to four drivers (...)
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Uber bought itself a law. Here’s why that’s dangerous for struggling drivers like me - 12 novembre 2020
The company, along with Lyft and DoorDash, spent more than $200m to deny drivers the wages and benefits we’re entitled to
Last week, Uber bought itself a law.
Along with Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash and Postmates, app companies spent more than $200m – the most spent on any ballot campaign in US history – to bankroll (...)
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’Those in Power Won’t Give Up Willingly’ : Veena Dubal and Meredith Whittaker on the Future of Organizing Under Prop 22 - 5 novembre 2020
Workers can build solidarity and fight back against ‘anti-democratic, corporate law-making’
California voters, overwhelmed by a deluge of gig-company-sponsored misinformation over several months, voted in favor of Proposition 22, which eradicates basic labor protections for the state’s most vulnerable workers.
The (...)
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Results : California votes on Proposition 22 to allow Lyft and Uber drivers to be independent contractors - 4 novembre 2020
A recent study shows that over 70% of gig workers work more than 30 hours a week but do not receive most employee benefits.
Polls have closed in California on Proposition 22, which would allow companies to hire app-based drivers as independent contractors instead of employees of the company.
A recent (...)
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Etats-Unis : La Californie approuve la proposition d’Uber pour protéger son modèle économique - 4 novembre 2020
Cela signifie que les dizaines de milliers de chauffeurs californiens resteront indépendants mais aussi qu’ils recevront des compensations
Les électeurs californiens ont approuvé mardi à 58 % la « Proposition 22 », formulée par Uber et d’autres sociétés pour préserver leur modèle de plateformes avec des chauffeurs (...)
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The racist business model behind Uber and Lyft - 29 octobre 2020
The apps feed a false promise of stability to immigrants and people of color. Instead, drivers receive low pay and no benefits
Uber and Lyft want you to know they aren’t racist. It’s why Uber put up billboards all over the west coast saying : “If you tolerate racism, delete Uber.” It’s why Lyft is running ads (...)
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Gig Workers’ Only Chance to Pee Is Apparently an App - 28 octobre 2020
Gig workers have nowhere to pee and it’s only gotten worse during COVID-19. Instead of a societal solution, there is the Whizz app.
Nowhere has COVID-19’s tendency to accelerate the worst trends in our economic order been more clear than in the gig economy.
Before the pandemic, gig workers—already forced to demean (...)
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Shipt’s Algorithmically Calculated Wages Are Bad News for Workers - 27 octobre 2020
Dynamic pricing allows gig platforms much greater control over their workers
Gig workers who deliver groceries and other essentials for Shipt, a delivery gig platform owned by Target, went on strike this weekend, protesting the company’s new algorithm that determines how much they are paid.
Before this year, (...)
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Qui veut la peau de Google ? - 24 octobre 2020
Cartes, vidéo, navigateurs... Passage en revue des marchés que la firme, poursuivie par la justice américaine, écrase de son poids colossal.
Le mardi 20 octobre 2020 restera comme une date importante dans l’histoire économique et technologique moderne : c’est le jour choisi par le Département de la justice américain (...)
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En Californie, la « gig economy » soumise à référendum - 14 octobre 2020
Uber, Lyft et d’autres plates-formes soumettent au vote, le 3 novembre, la « proposition 22 » pour empêcher une « normalisation » du statut des chauffeurs et livreurs.
Si l’issue du match Trump-Biden ne fait aucun doute en Californie, Etat majoritairement démocrate, le suspense est entier, en revanche, sur le sort de la (...)
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Uber Eats in Italy investigated over alleged migrant worker exploitation - 13 octobre 2020
Prosecutors allege drivers paid €3 per delivery and suffered degrading work conditions
Ten people, including a senior operations manager at Uber in Italy, are under investigation over the alleged exploitation of vulnerable migrant workers by the company’s food-delivery arm, prosecutors have said.
According to (...)
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Seattle approves minimum pay rate for Uber and Lyft drivers - 2 octobre 2020
The Seattle City Council passed a minimum pay standard for drivers for companies like Uber Technologies Inc <UBER.N> and Lyft Inc <LYFT.O> on Tuesday.
Under the ordinance, effective January, the drivers will now earn at least $16.39 per hour - the minimum wage in Seattle for companies with more than (...)
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Delivery companies unveil labor deal with Italian far-right union - 24 septembre 2020
The deal could allow the likes of Uber Eats and Deliveroo to avoid additional regulation.
A coalition of food-delivery companies on Wednesday unveiled a deal with a far-right-affiliated Italian union, pushing through their version of employee protection for gig workers as an alternative to classifying them as (...)
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Les liaisons dangereuses d’Uber Eats & co avec l’extrême droite italienne - 24 septembre 2020
En signant un accord avec le syndicat minoritaire UGL, les plateformes de livraison tentent d’échapper à la régulation.
Un accord « pirate » ? Le 16 septembre, plusieurs plateformes italiennes de livraison de nourriture ont dévoilé la convention collective signée avec le syndicat minoritaire d’extrême droite UGL.
« Il (...)
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Uber and Lyft’s California Proposal Is a Mishmash of Old Ideas - 17 septembre 2020
The past is our best guide for understanding the future of ride-hailing apps
Uber and Lyft are at war with the state of California after a judge ruled last month that ride-hailing companies, like other businesses, should be subject to a new law that classifies their workers as employees rather than independent (...)
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California Bill Makes App-Based Companies Treat Workers as Employees - - 13 septembre 2020
SACRAMENTO — California legislators approved a landmark bill on Tuesday that requires companies like Uber and Lyft to treat contract workers as employees, a move that could reshape the gig economy and that adds fuel to a yearslong debate over whether the nature of work has become too insecure.
The bill passed in a (...)
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Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work - 1er septembre 2020
Someone seems to have rigged Amazon system to get orders first
Operation reflects ferocious rivalry for gigs in a bad economy
A strange phenomenon has emerged near Amazon.com Inc. delivery stations and Whole Foods stores in the Chicago suburbs : smartphones dangling from trees. Contract delivery drivers are (...)
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"Guerre des étoiles" : comment la notation systématique a infusé notre quotidien - 31 août 2020
L’évaluation, bien souvent à coup d’étoiles, des produits et services, est devenue une habitude en apparence inoffensive. Dans "La nouvelle guerre des étoiles", deux journalistes de Libération se sont plongés dans les arcanes, dérives et effets pervers de ces nouveaux systèmes de notation.
TripAdvisor, Amazon, Uber, (...)
