Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills on Friday, one that allows drivers to form unions and another that lowers the insurance threshold for drivers.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed companion bills on Friday, Oct. 3, allowing hundreds of thousands of rideshare drivers to unionize while lowering their insurance threshold.
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The union-backed Assembly Bill 1340, sponsored by Assemblymembers Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, and Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, establishes the framework for more than 800,000 rideshare drivers to unionize and negotiate for higher wages, health benefits and workplace rights.
Lyft- and Uber-backed Senate Bill 371, authored by State Sen. Christopher Cabaldon, D-Santa Rosa, lowers the cost of rideshare services by reducing the insurance requirement that drivers carry $1 million in coverage for accidents caused by other drivers who are uninsured or underinsured. The agreement lowers that threshold to $60,000 in uninsured motorist coverage per individual and $300,000 per accident.
“Donald Trump is holding the government hostage and stripping away worker protections,” Newsom said in a statement Friday. “In California, we’re doing the opposite: proving government can deliver — giving drivers the power to unionize while we continue our work to lower costs for families.
“That’s the difference between chaos and competence,” the governor said.
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Taken together, the two bills represent a compromise that “lowers costs for riders while creating stronger voices for drivers — demonstrating how industry, labor, and lawmakers can work together to deliver real solutions,” said Ramona Prieto, Uber’s head of public policy for California, in a statement late Friday.
Just what we need in CA – another union. When this goes sideways (and it will) will the people who voted for it learn their lesson? Of course not!
This state’s destiny to go bankrupt will not be stopped by the electorate. Their hatred of Trump will ensure it.
CA is right……
This is another move by the Radical Socialist Party (aka Dem) to throw a monkey wrench into the works.
What has been a major downfall of government in the State? Simple growing wages and benefits that eventually kill the wage base…. Look around you the wage and benefits packages have produced gov. expense greater than most taxpayers can afford.
Want to be the next move will be to have these unions join the SEIU so the cash base will be large enough to off set stupid wage and benefit packages?
You vote for them… and yes you are that stupid.