Lyft lives in the shadow of Uber. The ten times smaller than Uber company desperately wants to break out and they think the path to that success will be to be an uber (sorry) leftwing organization.
Valerie Jarrett is on their board and they donated $1,000,000 dollars to The Southern Poverty Law Center when Uber continued to take passengers to airports during Trump’s “Muslim Travel ban.” (Taxis AKA: Muslims, refused to take people to the airport as long as trump’s travel restrictions were in place. Uber D.G.A.S.)
Lyft provided free rides to students attending March for Our Lives rallies last weekend and, according to co-founder John Zimmer, is trying to figure out how to address issues of racial equality after Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed black man, was fatally shot by police last week. “We want to figure out how to use what we do to help effect change,” Zimmer told a group of reporters in Washington yesterday.
Why it matters: Lyft sees this as a moment to highlight “having obvious ethical values” as a ride-hailing company vs Uber. In yesterday’s gathering with reporters, Zimmer was joined by former Obama White House official Valerie Jarrett, now a Lyft board member, and the two repeatedly highlighted the company’s commitment to equal pay, safe work environments, and continued activism to “protect our community.”
But is Lyft really so different than Uber?
Despite the fuzzy moustaches and messages of inclusivity, Lyft’s fundamental business model is the same as Uber’s. This means that Lyft drivers are not categorized as employees and so do not benefit from a broad range of legal protections. Independent contractors are not entitled to minimum wage, overtime, health insurance, workers’ compensation, unemployment or lower taxes. They also have to pay for gas and car maintenance. It was only after California drivers filed a lawsuit against the company that Lyft agreed to provide additional driver benefits, while maintaining their independent contractor status.
The company has yet to introduce an appeal process for people who get kicked off the app and has recently reduced the rates it pays drivers.
“If Lyft is so ‘woke,’ why did they cut driver pay in a race to the bottom with Uber?” said Ryan Price, executive director of the Independent Drivers Guild.
Even drivers’ independent contractor status isn’t permanent, as both Lyft and Uber plan for a driverless future. In both cases, the drivers are providing the training data for the autonomous systems that will eliminate their jobs in the future. Ma (Lyft muckety muck – bfh)emphasized that it will take years for the entire fleet to be driverless and that there would be a “huge role for humans being part of the autonomous transition”.
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Zimmer is in pursuit of a dollar, and he thinks the quickest route is to virtue signal.
This is the worst kind of user, a$$hole, liar.
ht/ ChiGuy
You saw my (left) blinker, be-otch! 🙄
I might use Uber on my next trip out of town.
I will NOT use Lyft.
He must be self financing, anyone with a business plan that stupid isn’t likely to draw many to invest in the enterprise.
Drivers: Take out a small ad, tell them where you will and won’t go, then keep all the money. Forget lyft and uber. pfft.
With my dyslexia I was reading the name of the company as “left.”
After reading the post I see I wasn’t too far off after all.
Liberal
Young
Fascist
Turds
Susan rices is getting a job with Netflix.https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/03/28/lmao-get-a-load-of-susan-rices-newest-gig/
Both Uber and Lyft contribute to SPLC and rely on them for, um, guidance.
I deleted my Uber app, wanted to tell them off but they have no way of contacting them. By intent, there is no email address or phone # to contact them.
Bob, you were doing so good!
Yes, Petrus,he was.
There’s Uber and Lyft and we got “Link.”
I’ll just hail a cab.
I stopped reading at valerie jarrett.
The left is OBSESSED with taking your freedoms away. The right to drive your own car any damn place you feel like going bugs the crap out of them. THAT’S why they are obsessed with driverless cars. It has nothing to do with safety.
Just deleted the Lyft ap from my phone.