Uber, Lyft Drivers Want $110 Million Covid-19 Fund for Workers (1)

March 19, 2020, 8:17 PM UTCUpdated: March 19, 2020, 8:53 PM UTC

Rideshare drivers are calling on Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc., and similar platform operators to create a $110 million assistance fund to help drivers through the coronavirus crisis—roughly the same amount the companies are spending on a proposed ballot measure to stop gig workers from being made employees.

Members of the Mobile Workers Alliance asked the companies to end their campaign behind the ballot initiative to largely shield them from a new state law known as A.B. 5. They want the companies instead to invest the money spent on the campaign into a fund that would support drivers ...

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