Bob Nesbitt had a long career in sales. After retirement, he turned to the gig economy to earn some extra income. Nesbitt, now 75, has been driving nearly full-time for Uber and Lyft in the Portland-Vancouver area for about seven years. Nesbitt said it’s been harder to rely on income from rideshare companies lately. His Lyft account was abruptly deactivated last May. Despite repeated attempts to contact the company, Nesbitt told the Mercury he has.
Construction workers have been onsite at Benson Polytechnic High School's inner Northeast Portland campus for more than two years, laboring away at the $300 million school modernization project set to be complete next summer. But in the last few days, workers at Benson have walked off the job in solidarity with members of the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) and their ongoing strike. Throughout the Portland Public Schools (PPS) teachers' strike, currently on its sixth.
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Uber’s lobbyists, after clinching an agreement with UFCW Canada to launch a charm offensive at the Ontario provincial government for employee-like benefits on behalf of an estimated 100,00 drivers, weren’t done hobnobbing with unions. Next up, the Teamsters in Washington state are working on a deal with Uber and Lyft.
House Bill 2076 might give ridehail drivers outside Seattle a pay raise and some benefits, but other labor groups say the cost of the deal runs too high.