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More on the UK select committee report - calling out Uber for its reliance on "sweated labour".
One driver told [Committee Chair, Labour's Frank] Field: “Yesterday my hourly net income fell to £2 an hour. I made £40 cash, then had to put in £30 in petrol.” Another described his work as being so low paid he received working tax credits from the state despite working very long hours. “The fares are too low and the commission too high. Drivers work six and a half days and 16 hours a day – dangerous for the driver, passenger and the public. Often you will earn less than the minimum wage, so you work more hours.”
Field is calling for TfL and the Department for Transport to require Uber to banish “sweated labour” from its working practices before renewing its licence to operate when it ends in 2017. He also wants the government to reform employment law so that companies in the gig economy are required to give workers basic protections, including the national living wage.
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Access: A letter from Aunt Daisy about…, in reply to Jeanette King,
Until a National government stopped the funding for the project.
an enduring NZ motto
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More news about schools that have used solitary confinement, as Ministry drip-feeds info via OIA.
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Amazing how quickly certain food smells can transport you to something you haven't thought of in years. There's something about that smell, right? ... Smells like childhood.
Love that about food. Thank you.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
Its business model is buying market share using speculative capital and then pretending to be a sound business
A transport analyst reckons it's not even able to be profitable without hugely jacking up fares once competitors have been driven out of business.
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Access: Help needed! Deciphering the…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
maybe the link won't work
They have a smart firewall that usually lets you visit from a tweeted link once. See if that one works.
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Access: National Standards and the…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
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the need to manage within fiscal constraints prevails
Interesting, thanks. It really is more of the same miserable attitude that containing government costs is a morally superior priority to honouring a citizen's human rights and legally-confirmed expectations of service.
TV3's The Nation also ran a thorough story this weekend about the ongoing skullduggery of the Ministry and Ministers over family care funding.
Watching, I'd forgotten how obnoxious Tony Ryall was when he delivered that same line. Nothing has changed in many years. The Ministry still believes in its core that 'cost-effective' trumps all else. Have had their legal team make the argument it supercedes the common duty of care, even.
That sick culture will not change until great force is applied. Probably requires a change of govt and a Minister who will ruthlessly squeeze it out of them over several years. The current clown Lotu-Iiga interviewed at the end of the Nation story is an abject embarrassment, as usual.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to Brent Jackson,
Economists can be daft, especially libertarian ones. As if there's a free market equivalent for police background checks, vehicle standards, etc.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to goforit,
Yep, sure can't rely on our lazy, ignorant MPs to do anything about holding Uber accountable.