On Tuesday, Los Angeles International Airport debuted its new ride share system, LAX-it. The rollout was anything but smooth. With hour-plus waits for rides, packed shuttles, confused drivers and angry passengers, Los Angeles World Airports and the Mayor’s Office made the smart call and reached out to us, the drivers, to try to work toward […]
El martes por la mañana, Uber, Lyft y Doordash anunciaron que lanzarían una campaña de 90 millones de dólares en la boleta electoral para revertir los derechos tan reñidos que ganamos a través de AB5. Esto es normal para estas compañías que en toda su existencia nunca han seguido las reglas. Uber, Lyft y Doordash […]
Tuesday morning, Uber, Lyft and Doordash announced that they’d be launching a $90 million ballot measure campaign to roll back the hard fought rights that we won through AB5. This is par for the course for these companies who have spent their entire existence exploiting loopholes to get out of following the rules. Uber, Lyft and […]
Con cientos de conductores reuniéndose en la camara del concilio de la ciudad y en las calles del centro de Los Angeles, el concililio municipal de Los Ángeles aprobó por unanimidad una moción el martes para instruir al personal de la ciudad a estudiar los salarios y los gastos comerciales de los conductores de viajes […]
With hundreds of drivers rallying in city hall and on the streets outside, the LA City Council unanimously passed a motion Tuesday instructing city staff to study the wages and business expenses of rideshare drivers in LA and to include recommendations on how to establish a minimum hourly wage in the city, with a goal of a […]
MOBILE WORKERS ALLIANCE UNIONS FOR ALL RALLY AB5 has passed and Uber and Lyft are on the ropes. It’s time to show our strength with the biggest rideshare driver rally in history. We’re through taking crumbs from billion dollar companies like Uber and Lyft, join hundreds of drivers and Los Angeles union members to demand […]
Durante tres días, nuestra caravana de conductores de Uber y Lyft de la Alianza de Trabajadores Móviles recorrió casi 1,000 millas (916 para ser exactos) para llevar nuestra lucha por la AB5 y una unión directamente a la sede de Uber y al capitolio del estado de California. Nuestra peregrinación comenzó el lunes por la […]
Over three days, our Mobile Workers Alliance caravan of Uber and Lyft drivers traveled nearly 1,000 miles (916 to be exact) to bring our fight for AB5 and a union straight to Uber HQ and the California state capitol. Our pilgrimage began Monday morning with a kickoff in downtown Los Angeles, where drivers Linda Valdivia, […]
Three Day Caravan For AB5 & A Union Mobile Workers Alliance is hitting the road! From August 26-28, hundreds of MWA members will be taking their cars across California in a historic motor pilgrimage for driver rights. The journey is inspired by the United Farm Workers 1966 pilgrimage from Delano to Sacramento, led by Cesar […]
It was a triumphant Wednesday evening in El Monte, as MWA drivers packed the city council chambers to testify about our mistreatment at the hands of Uber and Lyft and ask the city council to move toward a $30 an hour living wage for drivers in El Monte. When they heard about the challenges the […]