UBER AND LYFT CALIFORNIA DRIVER PETITION: FARE WAGES AND MORE INDEPENDENCE

UBER AND LYFT CALIFORNIA DRIVER PETITION: FARE WAGES AND MORE INDEPENDENCE
Drivers are requesting fair pay and true decision making abilities as Independent Contractors in California. California Uber and Lyft drivers have faced reduction in income from 2021 into 2022 to the lowest levels ever seen. In 2019 - 2020, UBER/Lyft took 25% of each fare to comply with AB5. UBER promised more independence with Prop 22 by giving drivers self-pricing abilities and ability to see all details of a ride before accepting. UBER spent 200 million to convince the public to buy into Prop 22 all the while giving drivers what they wanted. 3 months after Prop 22 passed, UBER took away details of trips forcing drivers into dangerous situations without the ability to choose. UBER increased their profit for each trip to upwards of 60%+ leaving almost nothing for the driver. Subsequently, they have reduced Quest bonuses and other bonus monies to almost nothing. LYFT never allows drivers to see how much a customer pays or trip details, an ever worse transgressor. Both companies have manipulated the Driver applications in such a way that gross labor law violations and unfair wages now exist. Drivers are forced into long hours and dangerous driving just to make ends meet. We are asking for UBER and LYFT to show all details of trips, reduce their take back to 25%, and to give us the ability to choose our prices. Were calling on the CA and Federal government to step in to not only audaciously audit UBER and LYFT's labor practices through their Driver Application, but also to create new legislation that ensures a "Third Type of Working Class" cannot be used to enable a corporation to grossly violate the very labor laws that are meant to apply to all companies to prevent labor abuses. Further, that legislation be enacted to ensure that corporations cannot manipulate applications to take away the parameters that define the freedoms attributed to Independent Contractor work as defined by California Law.