California Pizza Huts lay off all delivery drivers ahead of minimum wage increas
California Pizza Huts lay off all delivery drivers ahead of minimum wage increas
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The CEO of Cali's pizza shit is Aaron Powell and he reportedly gets 2-5 million USD in annual compensation package.
I wonder when people are finally going to stand up to this bullshit...
"Available for delivery exclusively through Uber Eats" or some equivalent bullshit. Are Uber/lyft/GrubHub/postmates/etc drivers guaranteed a minimum wage in accordance to the new law, or are they "contractors" with no protection?
IIRC, The state passed a law requiring they be treated as employees, Uber and Lyft then spent hundreds of millions astroturfing the repeal campaign and got Californians to approve the repeal which exempts a narrow group of orgs including rideshare companies. So, Californians who spent billions on covering unemployment for folks who were contractors, are again subsidizing corporate profits.
Just a reminder: correcting a stagnant minimum wage (slightly) didn't do this, Corporate Greed did this. Pizza Hut had almost 12 billion dollars in revenue last year. Remember that when your cold pizza is delivered by wage-slaves working for tips...
I just hope Cali produces some legislation that forces Uber, etc to treat the drivers like employees too.
Customers must use third-party apps like DoorDash, GrubHub and Uber Eats for food deliveries at the affected chain restaurants.
Give your money to a company that doesn't exploit their workers. Pizza Hut doesn't deserve it.
While this is definitely something people should do, be careful offering "the free market will fix it" as a solution -- it's pushed a solution by neoliberals exactly because it doesn't work.
In this particular case, ethical businesses may have already been pushed out of the market because the only way for them to compete is to either charge more or also rip off their workers and suppliers.
Charging more is obviously the correct solution, but paying more for an ethically produced product isn't a luxury everyone has because they're also working for an insatiably greedy company.
Regulations that force companies to behave ethically is the only way out of this hole, which is why neoliberals fiercely oppose them.