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Things Aren’t Looking Good For Uber In California
California has been the legal beachhead of labour’s fight against gig work platforms, and unsurprisingly, Uber, Postmates, and other similar companies have done everything in their power to challenge having to reclassify their contract workforces as employees. But a ruling today in the state’s Central District Court suggests they may be headed for failure.
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Amazon’s Tax Claims Are Riddled With Bullshit
Despite deserved outrage for paying effectively $0 in U.S. federal income taxes two years running, Amazon would like us to believe it has become a model corporate citizen. They even blogged about it!
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DoorDash Contractors Earn Less Than Dogshit, Study Finds
U.S. delivery platform DoorDash has been at the top of the public’s most hated gig economy value extraction firms for some time, owing largely to its prior policy of subsidising its wages with customers’ tips. According to a study released today, even with that policy repealed, the efficiency of DoorDash’s race-to-the-bottom pay structure nets workers…
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Which Lucky Surveillance Device Owner Has Footage Of Ring’s CEO Crying?
We don’t have time to get into the myriad reasons the Amazon-owned surveillance camera company Ring is a wildly insecure harbinger of an increasingly unpreventable techno-dystopian police state. What we need in this moment is just and swift teamwork: to determine who (if anyone) has footage of Ring’s CEO allegedly having a big long cry.