Lyft Drivers Fed Up And Angry Against Settlement Deal In SF

Lyft and UBER drivers protested a legal settlement in a case of fraud against Lyft in San Francisco on March 9, 2017. The drivers said the settlement would not benefit many driver properly and that many were on starvation wages. Also Edward Escobar of The Alliance For Independent Workers reported that the danger of privatization of BART and other public transit was a direct result of platforms like UBER and Lyft that are encouraging people to take private transportation and creating environmental problems and that the lack of regulation is also leading to serious accidents and threatening the health and safety of the drivers, the passengers and public. The deal which would benefit the lawyer primarily would also allow Lyft to continue to classify the workers as independent contractors which means that that they have no problem continuing to exploit them with no control of their work as they are "gig workers". A large part of the settlement will go to the lawyer instead of the drivers in the settlement deal which was approved by the judge.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDeLO1Yr-pk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGnqVzaZxoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCrwoiYejWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPhA9DFYCYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UikoqJS9cKY
For more information on Alliance for Independent Workers
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