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December 16, 2016
Driving Uber Toward Unionization
Despite significant legal hurdles, the ridesharing company’s drivers are fighting for fair working conditions.
Michelle Chen
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November 15, 2016
How to Make Technology Actually Work for Workers
Rather than speeding offshoring and making workers redundant, technology can be a means of organizing and empowering them.
Michelle Chen
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July 29, 2016
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July 5, 2016
This Airbnb Cottage Is ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Spacious.’ It’s Also in an Israeli Settlement.
Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. So why does Airbnb offer listings in them?
Issa Amro
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July 1, 2016
A New Law Is Letting Uber Drivers Unionize
After ride-hailing companies descended on Seattle and began slashing drivers’ pay, the City Council stepped in with a novel solution.
Mike O’Brien
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June 22, 2016
Does the Law Decide What Rights Are Afforded to Uber Drivers—or Does Uber?
The company is offering union-like organization to its employees, which will keep them from accessing the full benefits of an actual union.
Michelle Chen
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February 19, 2016
The Industry That Treats Wage Theft as the Cost of Doing Business
A new law could make skipping out on paying freelancers more difficult.
Michelle Chen
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December 23, 2015
Could Unions Disrupt Uber’s Empire?
Seattle’s drivers are fighting—and beating—the Uberization of their work.
Michelle Chen
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October 27, 2015
How to Build the Movement for Progressive Power, the Urban Way
Four local politicians share their ideas for humanizing the “gig economy,” reforming the police, protecting immigrant rights, and solving the municipal budget crisis.
John Avalos, Brad Lander, Antonio Reynoso and Scott Waguespack
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September 14, 2015
This Is How Bad the Sharing Economy Is for Workers
And this is how reformers and activists might win protections for Silicon Valley’s so-called “independent contractors.”
Michelle Chen