SEIU Local 26

Thank you Amy Klobuchar!

Over the weekend rideshare drivers with the SEIU Local 26 Driver Organizing Committee were proud to welcome Sen. Amy Klobuchar to the MSP Airport driver waiting lot to share stories about what rideshare drivers in Minnesota are facing. We appreciated Amy listening to stories about plummeting take home pay and how this is forcing drivers to sometimes work 16 hours a day to make ends meet. She heard about seemingly arbitrary deactivations and the feeling from drivers like these jobs were once good jobs, but conditions are heading in the wrong direction. Driver after driver shared how after years of fighting, a union is clearly the only answer to stabilize this industry for drivers and passengers alike.

We appreciated Amy taking the time to listen to workers to help understand the difficult on-the-ground situation and why they are fighting so hard to update the law, granting them the right to vote on a union like most other workers.

Read this important story that features Said, a driver who is part of the SEIU Local 26 Rideshare Organizing Committee. This is yet another challenge for rideshare drivers in Minnesota, and yet another reason drivers are fighting to change the law in Minnesota so they can have the same ability to join a union as most other workers.

Minnesota rideshare drivers struggle amid high gas prices Uber and Lyft drivers pay for their own gas. Drivers say that’s cutting into their paychecks, as prices climb.