They didn’t vote to give them 30.00 an hour. They voted to start drafting a law. If they don’t draft a law then the pay doesn’t go up. Uber and Lyft have plenty of time to pay off any officials to make sure it doesn’t happen. And if it ever does it will hurt more than it helps. Uber would not be able to pay and the service would go away. The Uber drivers would go back to whatever they were or were not doing before.
they have their staff drafting a law so they can implement it If there was no support then they wouldn’t be drafting anything.
The purpose of setting the pay rate to $30, is to eliminate Uber and Lyft from being able to operate in the city. It is for the benefit of local cab outfits.
They are attempting (unsuccessfully) to repeal the law of supply and demand.
Creating lots of new hamburger flippers in the process.
On the plus side, they all feel much better about themselves.
Pilots for small commuter airlines.