Uber, Lyft Spending Big to Fight Californian Gig Economy Laws
A staunch consumer advocate tracking industry trends and regulation. Before joining TTAC, Matt spent a decade working for marketing and research firms based in NYC. Clients included several of the world’s largest automakers, global tire brands, and aftermarket part suppliers. Dissatisfied with the corporate world and resentful of having to wear suits everyday, he pivoted to writing about cars. Since then, that man has become an ardent supporter of the right-to-repair movement, been interviewed on the auto industry by national radio broadcasts, driven more rental cars than anyone ever should, participated in amateur rallying events, and received the requisite minimum training as sanctioned by the SCCA. Handy with a wrench, Matt grew up surrounded by Detroit auto workers and managed to get a pizza delivery job before he was legally eligible. He later found himself driving box trucks through Manhattan, guaranteeing future sympathy for actual truckers. He continues to conduct research pertaining to the automotive sector as an independent contractor and has since moved back to his native Michigan, closer to where the cars are born. A contrarian, Matt claims to prefer understeer — stating that front and all-wheel drive vehicles cater best to his driving style.
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This issue is a good representation on how our tax laws are garbage. Our bought government reps create legislation that helps their benefactors (public employee unions in this case) and hurts everyone else outside of that group. The reason there's a prop 22 is because of AB5 picking winners and losers in how the Republic of California identifies who's a 'gig worker' and who's not. Prop 22 is a deep pockets interest to get 'golden child' exemptions from AB5 like how the entertainment industry got them. Any guesses on how the entertainment industry got the exemptions? As usual, the debate on the core issue is being avoided. AB5 created the mess we're now debating, but rather than throw out the morons that voted for it, we're debating who should not be hurt by it. BTW, look who wrote AB5 - it's the same person who attacked school choice in CA because her benefactors - the school teacher public employee union - didn't want parents to pick schools out of their districts because it would hurt the rep of the teacher's union by highlighting failing schools. See a pattern?
This article: "Unlike most articles on the subject, we’re not here to take a side." Also this article: "... prohibit companies from erroneously categorizing employees as independent contractors ..." "... Ride-hailing platforms, like Lyft and Uber, are said to be among the worst offenders ... " "... allowing companies to act in a predatory manner in regard to how they treated staffers that really should have been deemed full-time employees." This is Jim Acosta/CNN level of "journalism". You took a side, just admit it. (I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the side he's taken, but he needs to be honest about his opinion.)