[unfairly4820]

California Labor Union Leader: "Our system is broken. It would be an understatement to say we are disappointed by this decision allowing companies to buy their way out of our state’s labor laws"

Uber Executive: "Our system is working. We’re pleased that the court respected the will of the people by upholding a voter-approved law.”

[LastNevadan]

Breaking news: people with skin in the game talk their book. Full story at eleven!

[sebzim4500]

Worth noting that the vast majority of the actual drivers agree wtih the Uber Executive here.

[josho]

I imagine drivers prefer this because they saw the alternative was going back to being screwed over by the taxi companies. At least this way when they get screwed over by Uber they have a bit more say in when and how it’s being done and while that may be bad it is an improvement over what they had before.

The reality is these drivers need some kind of guild or union because as it stands they are being taken advantage.

[wilg]

Is there some reason to suspect that there was corruption involved with this ruling? Or is this just general fearmongering?

[bagels]

The buying was the money spent to ferociously promote prop 22, not paying off judges.