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DESCRIPTION:Join our caravan calling for increased health and safety for app 
 workers!\n\nOrganizers: We Drive Progress & Gig Workers 
 Rising\n\nWednesday, Feb. 17 @ meet-up 10:30 AM PT (action starts at 11 AM 
 PT)\n\nRSVP here: https://www.wedriveprogress.org/news/caravan\n\nFB here: 
 https://www.facebook.com/WeDriveProgress/\n\nMASKS AND SAFETY-DISTANCING 
 REQUIRED\n\n\nWealthy app corporations like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and 
 others love to call us essential workers yet do very little to guarantee 
 that we can work safely. Instead, app workers are forced to spend our hard 
 earned money sanitizing our cars, buying adequate PPE, and trying our best 
 to avoid getting or spreading COVID-19. \n\nIt’s shameful that companies 
 like Uber and Lyft refuse to take responsibility for our safety and do 
 nothing to support us during this pandemic.\n\nEnough is enough!\n\nIt’s 
 past time for these companies to give us the respect and support we need 
 and deserve. On Wednesday, February 17, we’re staging a caravan to draw 
 attention to these injustices.\n\nWe’ll be meeting at the Safeway on 16th 
 Street before taking a caravan to Uber Headquarters at 1455 Market St.  
 Once there, we’ll all park in the street and begin cleaning our cars to 
 demonstrate and call attention to the time and effort it takes to stay safe 
 on the job. \n\n_____________\n\nSAFETY DURING COVID-19\n\nMasks & Social 
 Distancing is Required at All Times\n\nIf you have the following symptoms, 
 please DO NOT participate in person. Even if you test negative for COVID-19 
 but have these symptoms, please refrain from in-person 
 actions:\n--Fever\n--Shortness of breath\n--Cough\n--Headache\n--Loss of 
 smell or taste\n\nCDC: Older adults and people who have severe underlying 
 medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at 
 higher risk for developing serious complications from COVID-19 
 illness.\n\nCDC COVID-19 link: 
 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html\n_____________\n\nABOUT: 
 Gig Workers Rising (previously part of No on Prop 
 22)\n\nhttps://act.gigworkersrising.org/no_on_prop22\n\nGig Workers Rising 
 is a campaign supporting and educating app and platform workers who are 
 organizing for better wages, working conditions and jobs.\n\n\nABOUT: We 
 Drive Progress\n\nhttps://www.wedriveprogress.org/who-we-are\n\nWho we 
 are:\n\nWe are drivers. We’re behind the wheel of every Uber and Lyft 
 ride. We’re responsible for the billions in profit these companies and 
 their investors are pocketing every year. Some of us drive long hours every 
 day. Some of us drive part time for extra cash. Some of us are immigrants, 
 building a new life for our loved ones. Some of us have fallen on hard 
 times, earning money any way we can. What do we have in common? We all of 
 us deserve better. \n\nWhy we’re uniting:\n\nDrivers want a voice. 
 Because drivers are isolated, companies have the power to take advantage of 
 us. That’s why increasing out of pocket expenses and shrinking ride fares 
 have drivers struggling as investors and executives grow wealthier than 
 ever. It’s shameful. But we know a better way is possible. Working 
 together, we can fight back against unfair deactivations and cuts in our 
 pay to win a better future for ourselves and our families. \n\nWhat we can 
 win:\n\nWe can win a better life. Forming a union gives us a voice in 
 decisions that impact us. It doesn’t mean losing flexibility, it means 
 gaining the power to help set the rules. That’s what the companies are so 
 afraid of. It’s why they’re working so hard to scare us. A union gives 
 us strength in our numbers to win things like better wages, benefits such 
 as healthcare and vehicle maintenance, and protection against deactivations 
 and unfair treatment. It gives drivers the powerful voice for change that 
 we so desperately need. But we can’t do it without you. 
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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/16/18840077.php
SUMMARY:San Francisco Car Caravan Protest for Gig Drivers' Pandemic Health & Safety
LOCATION:Meet at SAFEWAY, 2300 16th St, San Francisco 94103; then we'll car caravan 
 to Uber Headquarters at 1455 Market St.\n\nMASKS AND SAFETY-DISTANCING 
 REQUIRED
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