The fight over app-based workers is a fight for our future and the future of work. Companies like Uber and Lyft have driven the erosion of labor rights, turning jobs into gigs and transportation into an unregulated system built on poverty wages. 

Rideshare Drivers United has built one of the strongest independent driver-led unions in the United States. Through grassroots organizing, we’ve created a fighting organization of over 20,000 California drivers willing to take on Silicon Valley and Big Tech’s greed.

RDU has repeatedly taken on billion-dollar corporations—and won:

  • International 2019 Strikes: We organized a powerful action in California of thousands of drivers during Uber’s IPO, costing the company billions, and inspiring driver actions around the world.

  • AB5: Drivers lobbied for and won AB5, a CA law making it more difficult for companies - including platform companies - to misclassify workers as independent contractors. Under AB5, app-drivers were entitled to the full protections of labor rights under California law and made Lyft & Uber's mass misclassification scheme clearly illegal

  • People’s Enforcement: When companies refused to comply with AB5, 5,000 RDU members filed individual claims of wage theft  totaling  $1.3 billion. These claims included the denial of minimum wage, payment for wait time, and reimbursement for expenses. Our claims were then taken up by the State to sue Uber and Lyft on all drivers’ behalf. These claims are now in active settlement negotiations worth potentially tens of billions to CA drivers.

  • Founding Member of the IAATW - the International Alliance of App-based Transport Workers -  working in coordination with driver unions across the globe to establish worldwide labor standards for gig-workers. 

Even after Uber and Lyft poured $225 million into Proposition 22 to strip drivers of our rights in 2020, RDU has continued to grow, supporting organizing across California through building grassroots worker activism and leadership.

Your Support Matters

RDU is a volunteer-run, worker-led organization, relying on membership dues and community donations. To stay in the fight, we need $10,000 per month to maintain our communications systems, servers, staff, and organizing tools. 

Your support directly powers driver organizing:

  • $50 funds 500 calls or 2,500 texts

  • $200 funds a full-day driver-organizer shift

  • $1,000 covers a week of tech and communications for 20,000 members

Please consider making a recurring donation today. Your solidarity is the best way to help drivers build the power to hold gig companies accountable and raise pay and dignity for drivers and our families. 

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