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AI, Robots, and Labor Rights: The United States Gig Economy Overview
Fresh Ideas
- Instacart has incorporated an AI resembling chatGPT to assist customers in choosing dinner options, enabling them to purchase the required ingredients through their app conveniently.
- DoorDash has announced a minimum guaranteed hourly rate for the delivery time, ensuring that individuals are compensated based on their time spent on deliveries rather than the number of deliveries completed.
- Uber Eats plans to deploy 2,000 autonomous bots across major US cities, with robotics startup Serve starting in 2026.
- Uber and Waymo have joined forces to collaborate on developing robotaxi ride-hailing and delivery services.
- Uber plans to introduce Uber CarShare enabling individuals to utilize their neighbors' vehicles as needed to benefit lenders and borrowers while enhancing efficiency and fostering more livable communities.
REGULATION
Proposition 22, a state law supported by Uber and Lyft, which grants them the ability to categorize drivers as independent contractors, will undergo a constitutional review by the California Supreme Court, ultimately deciding the law's legitimacy.
Did You Know?
- Freelancers make up 36% of the total workforce in the US.
- 86% of the workers believe that working from home facilitates a more manageable work-life balance, leading them to willingly opt for maintaining their current salary to continue remote work
- Florida has the highest number of gig workers, with 22% of its workers engaged in the gig economy.
- Colorado gig drivers make an average of just $5.49 an hour.
- 1.4 million gig workers in California drive up to 4,000 to 5,000 miles a month.
Trade Unions / Workers' Associations
- Colorado Independent Drivers United
- Gig Workers' Collective
- Gig Workers' Rising
- Justice for App Workers
- Rideshare Drivers United
Are there any safety-related issues associated with Gig work?
- Kentucky: An Uber driver was shot by a passenger named Daniel Piedra-Garcia, who thought she was being kidnapped and taken to Mexico.
- Houston: A video from KHOU News shows a case where a couple has pleaded guilty to assaulting and robbing an Uber driver.
- New York: A Uber Eats female driver was forced to disguise herself as a man to ensure her safety.
Opera Workers’ Ruling Offers Path for Uber, Lyft Drivers to Unionize
By voting in favor, the Democratic majority of the National Labor Relations Board has implemented a decision that simplifies the process for workers to establish themselves as employees rather than independent contractors, granting them the ability to organize and potentially paving the way for workers at companies such as Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash Inc. to assert their status as employees with the right to unionize.
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