Why not both? It’s being done in Washington; Colorado should be next.
The pandemic has been an unexpected boon for workers. After an initial surge in unemployment, the economy has recovered and now, with a red-hot labor market, workers are figuring out how to demand more from their companies.
In some cases, this is taking the form of direct confrontation, like the battle between Amazon and its warehouse workers in New York City who voted to unionize, or the Starbucks workers in Boston who did the same. But these wins are far from guaranteed. This month another NYC Amazon warehouse rejected unionization. And often, companies will find ways to make life harder for those who do organize.
So it is interesting to see other workers taking a different approach, deciding to negotiate and collaborate with companies on a better way forward for everyone, rather than battle it out against them for years.
One example of this actually happened the day before the first Amazon vote — Washington state passed a law mandating the highest statewide minimum wage for rideshare drivers in the country. Drivers there now have access to new benefits like paid sick days, and additional protections, like measures against unfair deactivations.
As a driver with Lyft here in Colorado, I can’t tell you how big of a deal that is.
This law was a result of months of collaboration, with Uber, Lyft, the local Teamsters union, and Democratic elected officials working to figure out how to...
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