I have been driving rideshare in the UMass Amherst market for about three years now. And for three years, major events around the university have produced variations of the same problem. Move-in. Move-out. Graduation. Football games. Special events. Road closures. Traffic patterns get changed. Roads become one-way. Entrances get blocked. Areas that were accessible yesterday…
Read MoreMassachusetts rideshare drivers now have something drivers in most of the country do not: an actual certified union sitting across the table from Uber and Lyft. That makes the App Drivers Union important. It also means the ADU deserves scrutiny. The question should not simply be whether the union gets drivers another raise. The real…
Read MoreUber sent me an interesting notification this morning. According to the company, a “system error” caused some drivers to receive communications that were not intended for them or to see temporary changes to their Driver accounts that were incorrect. That admission raises a larger issue I have been talking about for a while: Uber has…
Read MoreMassachusetts created collective-bargaining rights for rideshare drivers. But when the same app moves drivers between passengers, food, and packages, the accounting and the representation need to match the actual work. The App Drivers Union has an important issue sitting right in front of it as collective bargaining begins in Massachusetts: Uber needs to clearly define…
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