JohnIsWonderingNov 7, 2023
Kevin Russell

Take a deep breath.

I shouted for joy when I read this great justice.

"Uber and Lyft to pay $328 million for stealing $ from their drivers"

"Of the incalculable amount of money stolen from drivers by Uber and Lyft through various accounting shenanigans, $328m will be paid back to them..."

" . . in what New York Attorney General Letitia James called the largest wage-theft settlement her office has ever secured."

Applicable EVERYWHERE.

#Dems #VotingHasConsequences

https://boingboing.net/2023/11/05/uber-and-lyft-to-pay-328-million-for-stealing-from-their-drivers.html

Uber and Lyft to pay $328 million for stealing from their drivers | Boing Boing

Of the incalculable amount of money stolen from drivers by Uber and Lyft through various accounting shenanigans, $328m will be paid back to them and their lawyers in a settlement accounced earlier …

Boing Boing
Nov 5, 2023 at 6:56pmWeb
Show threadexcited for the mastodon riseNov 5, 2023

@kevinrns I'm damn near ready to call for Letitia James for president.

Damn. We need so much more of this

Show threadPxtlNov 6, 2023
@kevinrns I hope they'll move fast, isn't Uber so deeply in debt that they're basically constantly on the brink of bankruptcy? I assume the wage theft settlements won't be first in line among creditors.
Show threadKevin RussellNov 6, 2023

@Pxtl

Uber is a river of Saudi money looking to set up a gig economy monopoly in transport, like GM bought and destroyed the LA transit system.

Show threadFeralRobotsNov 6, 2023
@kevinrns we need to all thank Tish James for sacrificing her political career to do things like this & the Trump Org prosecution.
Show threadKevin RussellNov 6, 2023

@FeralRobots

Reelected or any position she chooses. Senator James. President.

Show threadFeralRobotsNov 6, 2023
@kevinrns
I'd vote for her, & you may be right she might still fly here in NY. But 'prosecute these cases' over becoming Governor was a tough call & I'm selfishly glad she made the one she did. (Also it would've been a grueling fight, Hochul seems like a much sharper pol than she looks at a casual glance.)
Show threadPaul-Gabriel WienerNov 6, 2023

@kevinrns

It's a big step forward, and that's fantastic.

You know what's even better? A driver-owned co-operative rideshare that cannot and will not commit wage theft in the first place.

https://drivers.coop/

The Drivers Cooperative

The Drivers Cooperative
Show threadMorgan ⚧️Nov 6, 2023
@WearsHats ty for sharing!!! I've been hoping something like this exists
Show threadPaul-Gabriel WienerNov 6, 2023
@raphaelmorgan unfortunately it's only in NYC for now. But the more people who know about it, the better it can succeed and the more quickly the model can spread.
Show threadTom RitchfordNov 6, 2023

@WearsHats @kevinrns This is one thirtieth of one year's revenue for Uber alone and no one's going to jail.

The executives who did this made out like bandits, personally, and will be just aching to commit similar crimes in the future.

> A driver-owned co-operative rideshare

Allow Uber and Lyft to continue their crime spree will forever prevent that.

Show threadolNov 6, 2023
@kevinrns 300 million of wage theft repaid, 35 billion to go https://www.tcworkerscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Wage-Theft-vs-Other-Theft-1024x730.jpg
Show threadKevin RussellNov 6, 2023

@wnlckwd

Oh its more than that. And the opportunity cost of keeping hoader billionaires is far larger. The UAW just overcame a WHOLE LOT of wage theft, on purpose.

Wiping out imposed "new hire" wage theft, and temporary worker wage theft. Somebody check my numbers, but temporary workers got over a hundred percent increase?

People are going to be shocked by fair prosperity.

Taxing the untaxed, hundreds of billions, spending most of it on heat pumps and offshore wind kind real harware stuff.

Show threadD. G. MarshallNov 6, 2023

@kevinrns

And how many of the wage thieves are going to jail?

Is it none? I'm betting it's none.

Show threadKevin RussellNov 6, 2023

@davidtheeviloverlord

Then worse, there is the new "deferred prosecution"

Like the arms dealer's, sanction busting, drug dealing bank HSBC. I think they pay fines lower than interest rates, and others.

Show threadBerner Dad for EquALLityNov 6, 2023
@kevinrns but by all means, keep patronizing these crime syndicates, and might as well vote for Trump in 2024, to stay consistent. I know, I know, it’s so hard to dump Xitter too. Life is like that, full of easy choices, and a few hard ones.
Show threadlazybitfieldNov 6, 2023
@kevinrns > EVERYWHERE
Show threadKevin RussellNov 6, 2023

@lazybitfield

The New York Attorney General prosecuted a law breaker. Elect your own. Voting has consequences.

Show threadlazybitfieldNov 6, 2023
@kevinrns Jokes aside, congrats! This is a tiny but great step in the right direction.
Show threadThomas Lee ✅ Nov 6, 2023
@kevinrns wow. She is even more impressive than I previously thought (and I always thought she was impressive). I wonder if #45 has taken notice?
Show threadJenniferNov 6, 2023
@kevinrns wow that's great! Now she needs to go after Amazon. It screws over authors, narrators, and its sellers.
Show threadNetuxNov 6, 2023
@kevinrns without criminal penalties they will continue to do it and just accept that occasionally having to pay it back as a cost of business.