Lyft and Uber threatened to stop doing business in Minneapolis after the city council adopted a new rule Thursday that would set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers.
Great, just get the heck out of here with your gig market profiteering.
Further proof that if they could pay you less (or nothing), they happily would.
Oh no. People might have to use regular taxis.
Good. If business plan relies on exploiting workers, then it’s a garbage business plan & deserves to fail.
“Allow us to exploit the labor or we will leave the market”
Same excuse since the dawn of slavery
Call their bluff, they won’t leave.
They literally won’t. They’ll set their rates at “profitable” numbers and leave their computers on, just like everywhere else.
But if the apparatus of the people (government) backs down then it’ll be another total failure of government.
If every business in Ohio left that cried about some laws there wouldn’t be any left
They never pass up profit, even if it’s less
Considering they are not really any cheaper than taxis, no biggie.
They’re much nicer, though. That’s why they’ve been successful.
Conveniently, biking will be a good alternative again once the bike lane isn’t full of illegally parked rideshare cars.
(Not from MN but Ubers are a plague for safe city biking where I am)
While I think this should pass, don’t hold your breath. Mayor Frey will probably veto it. He’s a very moderate, business friendly Democrat and our governor also vetoed a similar bill from the state legislature earlier this year. Right or wrong, they are concerned that any disruption of Uber/Lyft services would be extremely detrimental to people who depend on them. Public transportation in MN is really bad and this is one of the major ways people get around.
Oh no, they’ll have to pay their employees half the cost of living…
… Anyways
And then was born a 3rd competitor.
Pretty sure that would benefit General Motors and the Petrol giants.
Fewer ways of transportation? More people buying cars! Vroom vroom goes the planet!
That’s a weird reaction. Why not just ignore the bill entirely? It’s not like a municipality has any viable enforcement mechanism against what amounts to a smartphone app.
That’s a weird takeaway from this.
Govt: we believe that companies that employ people in our community should have to pay the established legal minimum wage.
Companies: we are only able to profit by paying non livable wages.
Lemmy user: yes company, keep exploiting your workers and breaking the laws all businesses have to follow, I mean they can’t really catch you.
“Govt: we believe that companies that employ people in our community should have to pay the established legal minimum wage.”
…Unless they are waiters or waitresses.
I’ll just do the rest of the thread, since it’s the same every time:
They actually do have to pay minimum wage if you don’t make at least that in tips.
Yeah, but if you try to get them to do it, they’ll fire you!
Being unwilling to stick up for your rights is a different claim entirely
Must be nice being privileged, asshole!
Must suck being too cowardly to stick up for yourself!
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Lemmy so efficient, even the flame threads are prefilled for you
Waiters and waitresses still get paid minimum wage (not tipped minimum) if their tips and wages are less than minimum wage.
Well, they’re supposed to at least.
It’s at least worth pointing out that Uber in particular broke several laws to establish themselves in various markets and never suffered any real punishment.
They can easily start fining Lyft and Uber.
