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Posted on 06/28/2026 5:14:18 PM PDT by Salman
An organization of California Uber and Lyft drivers has reached a major milestone in its effort to form a union, but it could face a rival organizing effort when it seeks official approval.
After showing that it has the support of 10% of California’s “active” drivers, the California Gig Workers Union has received from the state agency overseeing the unionization process a list containing the names and contact information of all such drivers in the state. The union is now using that list to contact those drivers to convince them to sign on to its effort, said Hector Castellanos, one of its organizers.
Under a new state law, the Gig Workers Union — which is backed by the state branch of Service Employees International Union and three of its local chapters — would need to have the support of at least 30% of active drivers in order to form an officially recognized union that could collectively bargain with the ride-hailing companies.
Union members were “so excited, so happy,” to get confirmation that they’d reached the 10% mark and to get the list of active drivers, Castellanos said.
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I think if this catches on it will kill Uber, Lyft, etc.
Welp, Uber and Lyft will be seeing a decrease in their services. Their prices will HAVE to go up to keep the union fat cats getting even fatter.
Even if they manage to get certified, they’d have almost no bargaining leverage because there is no barrier to entry for anyone to drive for Uber or Lyft. If they go “on strike”, it just means more money for those who keep driving.
Even if they manage to get certified, they’d have almost no bargaining leverage because there is no barrier to entry for anyone to drive for Uber or Lyft. If they go “on strike”, it just means more money for those who keep driving.
The end is near
SEIU is on the front lines of increasing demand for self driving cars.
This is not the actions to take if you want to preserve human drivers in employ.
California Gig Workers Union............and they wonder why people are leaving California in droves...............
I belonged to the Retail Clerks International union fifty years ago when I worked at a grocery store.
I am pretty sure they transmogrified into the SEIU.
I hope people don’t tip union workers.
Well, that's certainly true. But they'd have a laughable amount of leverage. There is no facility to picket, no production or service to disrupt because every driver is self-employer and on their own. California said they can bargain collectively because that was the politically facile answer to give, but I'm extremely skeptical there's much a driver's union can do.
‘California Gig Workers Union’
Why don’t they go where the REAL money is? Unionizing Hookers!
If I was evil and ran the world...that’s where I’d start!
Amateurs. *SNORT*
They would destroy their leverage, but they do not care.
All they are thinking about is now, now, now, in their infinite greed.
Will these jobs get destroyed? That is tomorrow’s problem.
Unionization is a leading cause of AI replacement.
That is the most stupid thing I have ever heard. They might as well organize the chimpanzees in the zoos.
“...when I worked at a grocery store.”
Finally! The truth comes out! YOU were the kid that always put my bread UNDER the canned goods! ;)
I worked in grocery stores as a teen. I LOVED it! The high point of my grocery store career? I got to arrange and stock the Easter Candy Display!
I was movin’ on up - movin’ on up - to the East Side! LOL!
I’ve never been in a union but ran up against them two memorable times:
1. At a paper mill in Longview, Washington, the electricians nicknamed themselves the “FLEAs”. Stood for Fat, Lazy Electricians. I kid you not. They wore that as a bade of honor. They were like fleas because, at the end of construction and beginning of the startup phase of a project, they were impossible to get rid of.
2. At a paper mill in Snowflake, Arizona, I needed to make a minor adjustment to a coal pulverizer. Would have taken me five minutes. I picked up a wrench to do the work and instantly the shop steward was on me like a ton of bricks, threatening to shut the entire job site down. After he got the carpenter to put up a wood plank for me to stand on, the millwright, the boilermaker, the electrician to hold the droplight, an instrument guy, and a laborer to sweep the floor, I was able to tell them what do do. It took SIX trades four hours to get five minutes of work done. Here it is 50 years later and I remember if like yesterday.
Before I was working in paper mills, I spent summers with my parents in Pennsylvania during college. James Leon Altemose was an American developer and contractor, active in the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania area who believed that employees should have the right to choose if they wanted to belong to a trade union. He won a contract to build the Valley Forge Plaza (later part of the Valley Forge Convention Center) using non-union labor. In the summer of 1972, labor goons torched and destroyed all of his construction equipment and shut the site down. I remember following that story, and even 21 year old me was shocked by it. That followed me to my field service engineering jobs described above.
Ya, fuc* those union assholes. 14-year-olds should definitely be made to work 80 hours a week in unsafe conditions. Just like the good old days right?
This union will use political leverage to make driving without their “permission\membership” difficult\impossible even illegal!
You sound exactly like one of those socialist union guys, cool.
Cool story bro. Btw, congratulations on your backwood hollow finally getting dial up.
That's one of the reasons the movie industry is moving out of Hollywood, where unions are a plague. A studio employee once told me that he saw a camera that was inadvertently left on, so he pushed the "off" button. Immediately, a union shop steward came at him screaming that he wasn't allowed to do that because he wasn't in the button-pushers' union.
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