No doubt a very self-serving interpretation, but I’d like to think they are right.
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Lyft <[email protected]> > Date: November 6, 2020 at 18:05:08 PST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Moving forward with California > > > > > > > > Hi Ernie, > > In 2007, we wrote our mission on a piece of paper: improve people's lives > with the world's best transportation. We spent our first few years building a > community around an idea that many called crazy at the time: Riders and > drivers sharing their personal cars, making cities greener and creating > millions of work opportunities along the way. Together, the Lyft community > demonstrated that people from all walks of life can come together and make a > big difference. > > Still, as some of you remember, we had to overcome our share of challenges to > create ridesharing. Back then and still today, our approach has always been > to support policy change that does the most good for the greatest number of > people. > > On Tuesday night, millions of Californians voted to add historic benefits for > drivers and keep rideshare accessible to our communities. Now that Prop 22 > has passed, drivers will maintain their independence and get important > benefits, which include guaranteed earnings, new healthcare subsidies, and > more extensive insurance coverage. These benefits increase with hours worked, > and drivers can still earn whenever, however, and with any platform they want. > > This new path combines the strengths of both contractor and employee models. > Before now, benefits have traditionally been available only to employees — > and just like with ridesharing, many people didn't think a new way was > possible. With 6:1 drivers wanting to have benefits and keep the flexibility > of staying independent, we're very happy they now have this. > > We also don't want to gloss over the hard parts. This was a hotly debated > issue, and the passion people brought to the conversation reflects how much > each of us cares. Whichever way you voted, we feel a deep responsibility to > continue demonstrating that we will always do our best to serve the people > who depend on us. > > We look forward to continuing to work together to build a service that makes > all of us proud — for our communities, our environment, and for California. > So thank you again for caring. Not just from us, but most importantly from > the millions of drivers who are counting on us. > > > > Finally, we know it's been a stressful week with the U.S. Presidential > election and 24/7 news coverage. Please take care of yourselves. We're all in > this crazy year together 🙏 > > Thank you, > John & Logan > Lyft Co-Founders > > Unsubscribe | Contact > 548 Market St., P.O. Box 68514, San Francisco, CA 94104 > © 2020 Lyft, Inc. > CPUC ID No. TCP0032513 - P > -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/RadicalCentrism/94A629C8-7AD1-4952-BBA4-A12568D7686D%40radicalcentrism.org.
