So, I work as a full time employee for a "big tech company located in downtown Seattle", my employer can terminate me anytime, on the spot, for any reason. But if I was a uber driver, I'd receive some "protection", why is that?
When one group of people fight for and/or win new rights, it doesn't mean that people believe that is the only group who deserve those rights. So yes, you should be protected too. Same with those gig workers. We all should be protected and we should celebrate anytime someone gets that protection. We don't have to view the world as a zero-sum game in which someone else getting something means you lose something.
If you're terminated you still get benefits like COBRA healthcare and can in almost all cases file for unemployment (which is money you've already paid into the system anyways). You have protections and a basic safety net. Gig workers have _none_ of that help.
You should probably reflect on why you don't seem to realize the extreme privilege and benefits you have and instead choose to blame or vilify low paid gig workers who are subsidizing and delivering the treats you demand and consume daily.
you receive WAY more protection than an uber driver (even with these rules) - federal law (and probably state?) dictate a whole host of reasons that employees may not be fired for, and there are an army of attorneys who will happily (and are legally empowered to) sue your [former] employer in an actual court (not arbitration), and what's more they'll almost always work on contingency.
Why else would uber be so desparate to prevent their drivers from being classified as employees?
Totally the same context in every way. Those fatcat parasite uber drivers deserve to be taken down a peg eh?
Why isn't the question why you have to live without any sense of security and basic human dignity?
That is essentially the life of a prostitute. You get paid today if you're lucky, and it might even be a lot, but are neither seen as or treated like a human, just a "provider". You give up the autonomy of your own business and the lions share of the rewards for your own work to be a mere employee, in trade for all the same risk as being out there on your own. That's showing 'em.
I would actually be embarrassed to admit that I had so little self esteem and dignity that my uber driver has higher minimum standards for professional relationships than myself, but hey that's just me.
