California Dems Seek Death Penalty for Uber and Lyft

About 80 percent are part-timers who work fewer than 15 hours a week and can make a few hundred extra bucks.

But I’ve had drivers tell me they supported their families by ubering 50 hours a week and clearing $45,000 a year.

Obviously, California’s leftist Democrats don’t really care when gig workers lose their jobs. They only care about union workers – and unions hate gig, freelance and independent workers.

In fact, if unions had their way, they’d outlaw all 1099 contract workers and force every employee to be a full-timer with all the job protections and benefits known to the modern working man.

On Thursday afternoon, a California appeals court gave Uber and Lyft another five days to comply with a previous court order requiring them to show how they plan to obey AB5.

That made the stock prices of Lyft and Uber jump a point or two, but it’s only going to delay the inevitable showdown.

Neither company has yet to make a profit. And they know that complying with AB5 would force them to raise their prices, hire fewer drivers, reduce their service and make it even harder to make money in California.

That’s why each company has invested about $30 million to put Proposition 22 on the November ballot.

Prop 22 would override AB5 and classify app-based ride-hail drivers and food delivery people like those working for DoorDash and UberEats as independent contractors and not employees.

It’s my bet – and hope – that Uber and Lyft are so popular, so useful, and so much a part of the culture that the nutty liberal people of California will wake up and vote for Prop 22 and foil the evil scheme of the Democrats.

What the leftist Democrats are trying to do to Uber and Lyft – kill or cripple them to please their union bedfellows – is a frightening example of what happens in a one-party state that’s been run by corrupt politicians for decades.

Scarier still, it’s also the kind of abuse of power that the whole country can expect next year if Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer win control ofWashington this fall.

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