Uber Wants Its Non-Employee Drivers to Get Early Vaccines
Industry trade organizations are lining up to lobby the CDC and states to get their workers high up in the queue of Americans waiting to receive the coronavirus vaccine, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who does not want to have to classify rideshare and delivery drivers as employees, wants those drivers to prioritized for vaccinations.
Uber and its app-based peers won out at the ballot box in November defeating Prop 22 at great expense in order not to have to provide health insurance or unemployment benefits for millions of app-based drivers. But now Khosrowshahi is tweeting his hope that states and the Centers for Disease Control will bump up these drivers in the prioritization line for the coronavirus vaccine.