Gig Economy Tech Workers – Uber-Lyft

The Gig economy is destroying worker lives. This pane will look at how tech has allowed companies like UBER and Lyft to increases exploitation and marginalization of workers. It will also examine how deregulation and the ability to the corporations to introduce technology without regulation has led to greater exploitation of workers. At the same time, robotics and automation threatens millions of jobs including in trucking and the taxi industry.
Participants:
Douglas O’Connor, an advocate for UBER workers
Todd Davies, Stanford Symbolic Systems Program
Edward Escobar, The Alliance For Independent Workers
Rahim A. Abbasi, Mass Not For Sale, former Gig worker and Taxi Driver