A push to revamp the collective bargaining status of drivers steering passenger and delivery vehicles for app-based firms like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash stalled earlier this year in the New York State Legislature. It’s time to send the idea to the scrap pile.
Ride-share companies were making about 750,000 passenger trips per day in New York City before the pandemic struck. But as the city emerges from the pandemic, a change is brewing that would rope drivers into a form of “sectoral bargaining” and impact the economy much more than advocates admit. Sectoral bargaining imposes collective bargaining on an entire sector of employees — for instance, all app-based drivers, not just those driving for Uber.
Read the full piece here.
About the Author
You may also like
Kathy Hochul will have to prove she can hold the line on state spending
Kathy Hochul’s stuck to the tradition for initial inaugurals: blessedly brief, general themes, details (implicitly) to follow.
Hochul’s specific priorities were lowest-common-denominator stuff: “combating” the spread of COVID-19 linked to th Read More
Nursing Cuomo’s broken trust: Kathy Hochul’s responsibility on COVID and long-term care
One of the most urgent imperatives confronting soon-to-be Gov. Kathy Hochul will be getting real about the state’s pandemic response Read More
Anatomy of an Albany Budget Blowout
For the first time ever, New York is projecting balanced state budgets across two consecutive fiscal years. Read More
10 Reasons to Oppose ‘Albanycare’
Lawmakers in Albany are again advancing the New York Health Act, which would abolish private health insurance and herd all New Yorkers into a state-run “single payer” plan financed with massive tax hikes.
Instead of building on recent progress—wh Read More
Pandemic lesson: New York must shore up public health system
As New York emerges from the worst pandemic in a century, its citizens face a new threat to their lives and economic well-being — the danger that their leaders will fail to learn from the past year’s painful experience.
One lesson above all deserve Read More
Beyond booze-to-go: NY should make other COVID red-tape cuts permanent
Republican lawmakers in Albany are calling for a special session to revive the popular alcohol-to-go provision Read More
Buffalo Goes Red
While New Yorkers waited to see whether the results of Tuesday’s primary would move Gotham politics even further to the left, an avowed socialist had scored a huge upset victory in the Empire State’s second-largest city. With all primary-day and early Read More
Enjoying our work? Sign up for email alerts on our latest news and research.
Together, we can make New York a better place to live and work!