Uber
When President Obama gave his speech on national security issues on May 23 at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C, one of the topics he focused on was closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The interruption of the speech by Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of CODEPINK, brought greater public...
Digital picket line: Uber and Lyft drivers on strike today
May 8, 2019Uber is expected to be worth $91 billion when its shares are listed on Wall Street Friday, but drivers say pay is on the decline.
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Uber and Lyft drivers are employees, not contractors, new California bill says
March 28, 2019The proposal comes as both Uber and Lyft prepare to launch initial public offerings or IPOs, raising billions of dollars from Wall Street investors.
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New York cab driver suicides linked to Uber’s “shared economy”
June 20, 2018All three were cab drivers whose livelihoods had been destroyed by a new and intensive form of exploitation of workers.
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The decline and fall of the NYC taxi industry
August 29, 2017The taxi industry suffers from much of the same problems that plague our society in general - lack of jobs for millions seeking gainful employment.
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N. Korea editorial could have gone further: Withdraw all U.S. troops
August 21, 2017North Korea, Uber, and LGBTQ attacks caught the attention of People's World readers last week.
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