BOSTON, April 19,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, April 21, 2024, at 10am ET, members of Teamsters Local 25 will
be joined by State Senator Lydia
Edwards at a general membership meeting to vote on the
endorsement of S.627 and its companion legislation, H.1158. If
enacted, the legislation would protect union members from having
their compensation and benefits undercut by bad employers through
the extension of collective bargaining rights to gig workers at
app-based companies.
The anti-misclassification bills come amid a push by Uber, Lyft,
Instacart, and other Big Tech firms to force a referendum on the
November ballot. If passed, it would legitimize many app-based
companies' unlawful business model, which relies on misclassifying
workers as independent contractors to cheat them out of collective
bargaining rights, minimum wage protections, overtime eligibility,
unemployment insurance, and other benefits exclusive to W-2
employees.
"Misclassification isn't innovation — it's a racket that cheats
everyone except the companies that exploit it," said Tom Mari, President of Local 25. "Wage theft via
app is still wage theft, and it must be stopped."
WHO:
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Tom Mari, Teamsters
Local 25 President
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Lydia Edwards, State
Senator for the Third Suffolk District
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Rank-and-file Teamster
members
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WHEN:
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Sunday, April
21
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10am-10:30am
ET
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WHERE:
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Teamsters Local
25
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44 Main
Street
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Charlestown, MA
02129
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INTERVIEWS:
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Available upon
request.
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Contact:
Matt McQuaid, (617)
894-0669
mmcquaid@teamster.org
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SOURCE Teamsters Local 25