The Bully's Playbook: How App Corporations Hold Back Worker Organizing and Harm Democracy
Type
Policy Brief or Report
Year
2024
Level
City or Town, County, Other, Other Boards and Agencies, State
State(s)
All States
Policy Areas
Data & Technology, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice
This report outlines the tactics gig economy transportation and delivery corporations have utilized to undermine communities and exploit workers and customers. It finds that these corporations fund aggressive lobbying campaigns to drive statewide preemption policies that ban localities from regulating their own communities, threaten local elected officials with negative campaign blaming them price increases and customer service degradation, and superficially embrace progressive talking points while opposing policies that would improve hazardous working conditions.