Yes for Mass Drivers
Flexibility and Benefits for Massachusetts is a ballot question committee registered with the state of Massachusetts to provide educational opportunities for drivers and voters to learn more about the 2022 ballot question.
BOSTON, MA – October 10, 2023 – Today, rideshare drivers from across the Commonwealth testified in front of the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development to ask for their freedom and flexibility to choose when, where, and for how long they work. The Committee hearing covered dozens of pieces of...
DUI arrests dropped in Boston, Worcester, and Northampton after broad introduction of Uber, Lyft BOSTON, MA – August 22, 2023 – The introduction of rideshare platforms in three major Massachusetts communities correlated with a decrease in DUI incidents or arrests, according to a new study conducted for the National District...
ALVIN BUYINZA, Mass Live Ahead of the 2024 election, Massachusetts app-based drivers are ramping up their efforts again to place a ballot question that would classify them as independent contractors with expanded benefits, instead of full-time employees. “I understand better than most what it means to be independent,” said Charles...
LUCIA MAFFEI, Boston Business Journal Two groups with a keen interest in the status and rights of ride-hailing drivers and other app-based workers are aiming to get two opposing measures on the state ballot in 2024. The new efforts come a year after Massachusetts’ top court blocked a question on...
KINGA BORONDY, Telegram & Gazette The drivers are in agreement as to what they need and want in order to serve their communities as ride-share workers and delivery drivers: Good jobs that afford them the flexibility to set their own schedules and work when they have windows of opportunity. The...
MATTHEW MEDSGER, Boston Herald For the second election cycle in a row some Massachusetts rideshare drivers are working to have the voters decide whether they can be legally classified as independent contractors or employees. Before Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell sit no less than nine versions of an initiative petition...
NICOLE GARCIA, GBH Rideshare and delivery drivers took over the Boston Common to unveil plans for a new question on next year’s ballot, which, if passed by voters in 2024, would classify drivers as independent contractors. “The ballot effort we are launching today, which closely mirrors what we proposed last...
KINGA BORONDY, Telegram & Gazette Drivers differ on one question: whether or not a union is necessary to guarantee their jobs as app-based workers. A corporate-backed ballot initiative freezes out the union but offers some benefits. BOSTON – One of two groups championing the rights of ride-share and app-based drivers...
NATE RAYMOND, Reuters BOSTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – The fight over the status of Uber Technologies (UBER.N) and Lyft (LYFT.O) ride-share drivers entered a new phase on Wednesday, as an industry-backed group and a labor union proposed letting Massachusetts voters decide whether their workers in the state should be treated...
KATIE JOHNSTON AND SAMANTHA J. GROSS, The Boston Globe Competing ballot measures would put the question of whether gig drivers are truly employees up for a vote in November 2024 The long-running battle over the employment status of Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts is ramping up again, with dueling...
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