Lyft and Uber say they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require ride-hailing services to increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local hourly minimum wage of $15.57.

Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour.

Lyft called the ordinance “deeply flawed,” saying in a statement that it supports a minimum earning standard for drivers but not the one passed by the council.

  • @halcyoncmdrEnglish
    97•9 months ago

    If a business cannot operate while paying a livable wage, it does not need to exist. That doesn’t mean minimum wage, that means a liveable wage.

    Any business that’s not even willing to do the minimum… Fuck 'em.

    • @rockSlayer
      31•9 months ago

      Well the living wage in the twin cities is roughly $23/hr while living alone with no kids, so it’s still a ways off. However, I actually hope they leave. Then metro transit has good reason to greatly expand the lightrail lines

      • @LesserAbe
        8•9 months ago

        I hope they get something similar to the Driver’s Cooperative, which is like Uber/Lyft but owned but the drivers themselves. Right now though my understanding is they’re only in NYC/Denver.

        • @rockSlayer
          6•9 months ago

          Yep, I know the CWAer that helped form the coop in Denver! Driver co-ops will become very popular as people realize they’re getting screwed by these companies

    • @Zachariah
      12•9 months ago

      And if the public still needs the service that a business can’t fill, it should be publicly funded and pay its employees a living wage.

    • @AngryCommieKender
      6•9 months ago

      It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By “business” I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.

      -FDR

      http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html