Uber’s Proposal for Portable Benefits Is a Poison Pill
Simon Archer and Joshua Mandryk
Uber’s Proposal for Portable Benefits Is a Poison Pill, Jacobin, February 27, 2022
In this article, Simon Archer and Josh Mandryk discuss how Ontario plans to allow Uber to create a new legal category for its workforce. To sweeten the deal, Uber is offering a meagre portable benefits system that they say will create second class sectoral laws for gig workers, while the actual benefits will all accrue to Uber. The conclude “Bait and switch, Trojan horse, poison pill — whatever you call it, it is a bad deal for workers.”