The Drivers Cooperative
@TheDriversCoop
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Dear New York City,
Today, we are incredibly excited to bring you Co-op Ride. Finally, a rideshare owned by the drivers.
-TDC
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Driver-owned rideshare is going live in New York City! Thanks
@kateconger
for telling our story. Download the app:
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Milestone alert!🚨They said it couldn't be done. Well friends WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED OVER TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TRIPS SO FAR IN NEW YORK CITY AND WE ARE JUST GETTING THIS PARTY STARTED!!! 🚨✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊
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Ditching Uber and Lyft for a driver-owned rideshare app? Giving your money directly to local workers instead of a nightmarish network of venture capitalists? Not a bad idea.🤔
You Can Now Ditch Uber for a Driver-Owned Rideshare App in New York City
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What makes Co-op Ride different than other ridehailing apps? Last Friday, we distributed shares to our driver/owners during a ceremony in the Bronx.
Drivers steer our company, and benefit financially from growth. Venture capitalists can take a hike (or Uber/Lyft).
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You love to see it. Thanks to
@AOC
for supporting Co-op Ride and emerging co-ops of all kinds.
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Our app, Co-op Ride, is ready to download for New Yorkers!
❓Why use Co-op Ride?
✅Consistent, cheaper pricing
✅Build worker power
✅Experienced drivers from your community
✅Keep wealth local to NYC
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BREAKING NEWS: Worker-Owned Rideshare App is Extremely Cool
There's a new worker-owned rideshare app in NYC and drivers are reporting making a lot more money per ride than Uber or Lyft.
In addition to making about 10% more each ride,
@TheDriversCoop
profits also go back to the drivers.
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What if everything was 100% worker-owned 🤔🌎🌹🤯
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We are a tiny worker co-op, and our drivers have a $30/hr. minimum wage. Meanwhile, the federal minimum wage has been $7.25/hr. for 13 years and most drivers don't even have a guarantee of that. Get it together America you can do better
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Today's launch is a step taken in solidarity and not isolation.
We’re grateful to our partners in the co-op movement:
@CHCANYS
,
@LESPeoplesFCU
,
@Shared_Capital
,
@start_coop
,
@theworkerslab
,
@TheEmergentFund
,
@ioby
,
@capitalimpact
✊✊✊✊
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We just ran our first internal election since we launched and WOW democracy is a powerful thing
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We’ll make it happen for you
@bigblackjacobin
. We’re in the business of making dreams come true 😘🪄✨
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UBER: Drivers can be their own bosses!
*drivers start a worker-owned ridehailing cooperative*
UBER: 🤯no not like that!!!
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Happy Labor Day! We are happy to announce our first international partnership, with Cotabo in Bologna. Today we set an intention🔮: to build the cooperative future with the power of FEDERATION🌐✨If you are a transportation co-op, get in touch. Workers of the world unite!🤝=💪
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Together, we can put workers back in the driver's seat.
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Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!
Uber and Lyft are threatening to pull out of Minneapolis after a City Council vote there guaranteed a minimum hourly wage to drivers.
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Incredible! In only 7 days we are over halfway to our goal of raising $1.07 million to revolutionize rideshare thru worker ownership! We are so grateful for the 433 individuals who have helped us raise $592,000 in just 1 week!
Check it out and chip in! 👇
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This whole "driver-owned rideshare app" thing sounds pretty good. Think it might catch on... 🤔
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Congratulations and solidarity to all the organizers in California! Let justice be done!
BREAKING:
#Prop22
invalidated!!! Court finds it unconstitutional. Huge win for gig workers!!!
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When we cooperate, everybody wins! 🌈 🦄 🤝 🪄✨
took my first ever
@TheDriversCoop
ride today, to the airport. My driver told me he was getting 3x the profit than he would with Lyft, and the ride was cheaper for me. download and use it!
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WE DID IT!! *Thank you* to the 800+ individuals and our friends
@start_coop
who helped us hit our goal of over ONE 👏 MILLION 👏 DOLLARS for 100% driver-owned rideshare!! 🌈 💫 ✊ We hit our first goal, but you can still invest to help us grow beyond NYC:
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Interesting! Try Co-op Ride, the driver-owned ridehailing app. Turns out when you *don’t* blow millions of dollars on trying to destroy workers rights in the United States, drivers can make more *and* riders can pay less. Check it out!
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NEW PROMO! We are offering free rides to jail for the corporate executives responsible for robbing hardworking drivers every day. PROMO CODE: LABORCREATESALLWEALTH
Another Lyft payment from last night. The passenger paid $180.43. The driver was paid $63.10. That's *35%*
From this, drivers pay: vehicle, gas, repairs, maintenance, insurance, licensing, parking, etc.
Now imagine how much companies pay on non-storm nights.
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On track to process about $100k in driver pay this month. We grew 3x so far just this week. Get👏that 👏money👏 for👏 our👏 working 👏class 👏community👏!
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Hello world! The last 6 weeks have been a wild ride!
✅ 2500+ trips
✅ 1000+ new drivers
✅ 30000+ riders
✅ 1 vision: driver-owned rideshare for system change in the platform economy
What's next? Help raise $1 million to power to success. Invest here 👉
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Co-op supporters have invested over $200,000 to grow The Drivers Cooperative in the last three days!! 🥰 You can invest here: . For more information, join our Investor Call at 6pm ET Monday 6/19, RSVP here:
Hello world! The last 6 weeks have been a wild ride!
✅ 2500+ trips
✅ 1000+ new drivers
✅ 30000+ riders
✅ 1 vision: driver-owned rideshare for system change in the platform economy
What's next? Help raise $1 million to power to success. Invest here 👉
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The future is cooperative. We love to see it 🥰
Co-ops like CHOMP in Iowa City and the
@TheDriversCoop
in NYC are taking on gig companies and winning simply by fulfilling the promises of "independence" and "flexibility" that
@Grubhub
and
@Uber
failed to live up to. You love to see it.
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I started using
@TheDriversCoop
to make sure 100% of profits go to workers and the cooperative. So should you!
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Imagine amassing billions in capital and assembling a global dream team of engineers… and using those resources to exploit workers as much as possible. As we say in New York City: FOH.
When New York's Taxi and Limousine commission forced Uber to hand over platform-level data, they found that 96% of the City's 80,00 drivers were making less than its minimum wage.
When wages were brought up, $225m a month went back into the local economy.
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‼️ 353 co-op supporters have invested over $250,000 in The Drivers Cooperative in just four days! 😮 🤩 🥰
Cooperatives are the future 🌈 RT if you agree!
We got this 💪 Invest in workers!
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They said it couldn't be done. Well, today we are celebrating 200,000 trips, and we're just getting started. Buckle up! 🤩🏆💪🚗
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Some milestones this week:
🛣100,000 trips.
💰 $3 million paid to our members.
🤝New $30/hr. minimum wage.
Cooperation works.
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Small is beautiful, and big is also beautiful! 🐣
The driver owned rideshare company
@TheDriversCoop
is now the largest worker cooperative in the US, as confirmed by
@MoManklang
of
@USFWC
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it's true
Hey everyone, uber fucking blows. If you're in new york, use
@TheDriversCoop
and your driver will actually get paid
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We are proud to provide a $30/hr. minimum wage for our members who provide essential services for New York City, and we are proud to call on all drivers to STRIKE against Uber tomorrow. Don't support a company that won't support you!
🚨NYC: Do NOT use Uber this Monday, Dec 19th!
Local drivers won a raise that was set to kick in 12/19. Uber sued to stop it, despite hiking prices 37% higher than they did in 2019.
How to help:
- Turn off your Uber app on Monday,
- Use another service, &
- SPREAD THE WORD! 🚘💰
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Careful what you wish for
@UberEats
.
The boss needs you. You don’t need the boss.
Rather than thank its gig workers,
@UberEats
is advertising Labor Day beverage deliveries, stating that no labor is involved in those deliveries.
h/t
@GigWorkersRise
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Today would be a good day for some reflection on how our society allocates resources. Pls fund workers instead of space billionaires:
Jeff Bezos on rocket launch: “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you paid for this.”
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Professor Susan Kang (
@solidaritybitch
) took a Co-op Ride with one of our drivers & founding board members, Mohammad Hossen.
"I want to know that when I need to take a car, I am contributing to our community and that workers are empowered."
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We reached our floor of $50k in less than 8 hours! 🎉We are so grateful for your support and confidence. Onward to our goal of $1 million to build the worker-owned ridehailing platform of the future!
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Driver-owned rideshare is here. Together, we can put workers back in the driver's seat.
Join the movement. Download Co-op Ride.
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@Vafata
@FD_coop_NY
Yes, we are not adding new cars to the road. Our members are the same drivers and vehicles you hail from Uber, Lyft, and other companies. We’re working on some ideas right now to point toward a bigger systemic shift... we’ll have more for you soon on that!
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Many have asked if they can donate to the co-op instead of invest. Today we're happy to announce a new way to support The Drivers Cooperative: donate to fund Organizing Fellowships for NYC drivers, and our friends
@ioby
will match up to $1000! Take a look👇
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Our Wall St. competitors sell off equity at pyramid-scheme “IPOs," where they bilk the public into paying off investors.
Our model is different. Our members get one share each, and share in profits based on the work they put into the co-op-- because all wealth comes from labor.
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Corporate rideshare apps do nothing but leech from workers. This is the kind of perverse business practice we're here to eliminate.
As a driver for Uber I was charged money to drive a passenger thirteen miles today.
#Uber
#Rideshare
#Lyft
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Have you taken a Co-op Ride yet? Tell us how it went!
Well that was nice. Comparable wait time and lower price than Uber and Lyft, and the driver and I talked about cooperative governance and worker organizing the whole time.
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Co-op drivers are in solidarity with the fight for a $25/hr minimum wage! Big companies that say they can't do it are lying. Today we are proud to announce that The Drivers Cooperative is increasing pay on our main Access-a-Ride routes to $30/hr. Cooperation creates abundance! 🥰
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People ask us what makes a co-op different. It’s one member, one share, one vote, and 100% driver ownership.
Check out this news coverage of our share distribution event in the Bronx.
@CBSNewYork
@CHCANY
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Let's talk! :)
This is the perfect opportunity for
@TheDriversCoop
to take the place of exploitative gig businesses Uber and Lyft in Minneapolis. 👀
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fund workers, not space billionaires
Stop investing in
@JeffBezos
,
@richardbranson
,
@elonmusk
Start investing in
@TheDriversCoop
👇
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We had to create a whole new financing vehicle to raise capital while maintaining 100% worker ownership. Luckily we know about vehicles🚗 and our lawyer
@elcesqllc
knows about financing 💸. We're raising money to grow! You can help! Read about it here 👇
EXCLUSIVE: A new worker-owned Uber competitor promoted by
@AOC
and other progressives is seeking to raise over $1 million from investors, drivers and everyday people. With
@thesimonetti
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No half steppin. 100% driver-owned.
@nir_III
@jasonpjason
@TheDriversCoop
is 100% driver-owned (and all financing has been revenue-based financing), vs. Juno raised from traditional VC, promised drivers would eventually own 50% of the equity, but never upheld that
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👀
I wanted to backed this up yesterday but I couldn't find the screenshots until this morning. You can see my battery is at 18% and the ride (which is normally $25-$30) is hiked up to $81. I saw it change instantly. The price dipped once I charged my phone to 25%.
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As we work to build upon this co-op movement, we'd like to acknowledge and thank the WORKERS. Without them, we wouldn't be here today. Thank you:
@CEANYC
@nycworker
@USFWC
@partnerpartners
@BLIPClinic
@CHCANYS
@ampl3d
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Drivers built Uber and Lyft. We can build our own app too. And we're pretty sure a lot of our customers would be happy to pay their driver, not Wall St.
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We broke bread in Brooklyn today to give thanks and honor our members who have been providing transportation for our fellow New Yorkers with disabilities thru Access-a-Ride. Let’s build a city that works for all of us! ♿️🤝🚗
@David4BK
is a great MC 😊
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✅ Riders pay less.
✅ Drivers earn more.
❌ Wall Street and venture capitalists get... nothing!
Co-op Ride is the first driver-owned rideshare app. Together, we can put workers back in the driver’s seat.
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"I downloaded it not knowing what the prices would be, but just knowing that more would be going to the drivers directly.
Then when I went to book my first ride, I was like 'oh, this is significantly cheaper than the other ridesharing apps, too.'"
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🔥 🔥 🔥
What if power was taken out of the hands of executives making 100’s of millions a year, and put into the hands of workers themselves?
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Collective ownership = major 🔑 to a better society 🌈
Just took my first
@TheDriversCoop
ride. (Thanks Andy!) It's wild how different it is to talk with driver-owners about their job than uber/lyft drivers. "We have a new app coming out soon", "we'll make it better", "we need more drivers". Collective ownership is major.
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Honest answer: nothing! New York City, download Co-op Ride, and start riding with a driver-owned rideshare:
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Co-op drivers ♥️ Co-op Riders !
hiii
@_erikforman
from Glen and me on my first
@TheDriversCoop
ride! Shout out to your team and the organizing that built this alternative for essential rideshare drivers exploited & left behind during this pandemic
#WorkerOwner
#Solidarity
#WorkerPower
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🚨🚨Our Annual Report is out and it's kind of a banger!
💰 $5.2 million paid to drivers
📈 12x growth
🌈 $30/hr. living wage for drivers- the first and only living wage guarantee in the gig economy
📲 AND Co-op 2.0✨ is here!
Read it here
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Stopping extraction of💰from our communities and resources from the 🌎
Co-op drivers 🤝 Co-op Riders
SO EXCITED
@TheDriversCoop
exists! Driver-owned ride share has been in my utopian imagination literally since
@Uber
/
@Lyft
was a thing! Also one of the founders
@David4BK
is a
@nycDSA
candidate for state Senate in
#ProspectPark
/
#EastFlatbush
vs a
#fossilfuel
shill. Badass.
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Ready for maximum warp into the cooperative future? Build the federation. Join The Drivers Cooperative Academy, learn how to build driver-owned rideshare in your city 🚀✨ Enroll now:
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In the last three weeks, over 600 investors have contributed $893,651 to help us carry out our mission of revolutionizing rideshare. We're on track to meet our goal of $1.07 million. Cooperation releases abundance!🌱🐝🌻
Check it out! 👇
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Happy Earth Day!🌏 NYC for-hire vehicles put 1.4 million tons of CO2 in the air every year. It's time for change. Today we are proud to announce the first and only realistic roadmap to a just, green transition of our industry: The Community Power Plan to ⚡️Electrify Rideshare⚡️
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1/ We are mourning the loss of our dear friend and fellow cooperator Ramon Pebenito after a courageous battle with cancer. Ramon served as Organizing Director of the cooperative. He leaves behind an indelible legacy of hope and strength for all who fight for a better world
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It's the final countdown! Seven more days to invest in The Drivers Cooperative⚡️⏰⚡️988 people just like you have invested– help us get to 1,000 investors and bring the cooperative future to scale in 2022! Invest here 👇💸
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🚨Thrilled to share that we have replaced Uber as the official transportation sponsor of ✊🏾💥 🥳
📲Download our new rideshare app to get a discount on your trip to the celebration this weekend!
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Your outpouring of support today shows that there’s a hunger for a better rideshare-- one that empowers workers and puts riders before corporate greed.
We can’t do this without you. Drivers & riders, join us!
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Proud to be part of the global co-op movement with
@USFWC
🥰 workers of the world, unite!
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What should we do to celebrate when we've paid drivers over $2 million? Taking suggestions.
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The Drivers Cooperative driver-owned rideshare featured in this week's
@NYMag
Approval Matrix. Brilliant AND highbrow? Hey, you said it, not us...
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Venture capitalists want to buy the future and rent it back to us. We don't have to let them– use Co-op Ride, the driver-owned rideshare, live now in NYC: . Invest to help us grow: !
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Just to be clear tho we can handle the driver-owned ride-hail, you are on your own for the kisses sorry
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⚡️Thrilled to share that our coalition led by
@VolvoTrucks
won the $10 million
@NYSERDA
Clean Neighborhoods Challenge! We will be building an Electric Truckers Cooperative with a charging hub in Hunts Point. Let’s roll! ⚡️🚛
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How it’s going:
💰$30/hr minimum wage - the first and only living wage guarantee in the gig economy
📈 Over $5.2 million paid to drivers
✊🏾Just replaced Uber as the official transportation sponsor of Juneteenth in NYC (!)
Read all about it
@NextCityOrg
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Stop exploitation in the gig economy with this one weird trick ✊
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Worker ownership. It’s just better, and it’s what’s next for tech. Thanks
@RyanDDeff
@CrainsNewYork
for getting the word out about
@TheDriversCoop
and our sister cooperatives!
How co-ops hope to shake up the tech industry. From ride-sharing to cleaning to internet service, employees fed up with corporate ownership have set out to deliver more for workers, customers
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🗣️🗣️🗣️ At Co-op Ride, we're ready to take on the corporate greed of the gig economy by building community wealth in NYC. Search Co-op Ride in the App Store/Google Play or by heading to to get ready to Ride!
Learned recently about
@TheDriversCoop
in NYC.
The idea is to give drivers democratic control of their industry.
The fares are MUCH lower than Uber and Lyft and actually go to the driver.
If you hate the organized crime of Uber and Lyft, download the Drivers Co-op app.
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It’s true! We’re growing! Come join the team that is revolutionizing rideshare!
Want to put your skills to the test for workers, rather than Wall St?
@TheDriversCoop
(Start '21) a rapidly-growing platform cooperative owned by rideshare drivers in NYC is
#hiring
!
⭐️ General Mgr
⭐️ Finance Mrg
⭐️ Ops Assoc
⭐️ Software Eng
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Building support for the cooperative economy at NYC universities one presentation at a time!
Thanks to
@tessamaffucci
and the wonderful students
@prattInstitute
for having us.
TDCxPratt swag drop FW22? 👀
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AWESOMENESS ALERT🚨We just broke $100,000 in our first 24 hours of fundraising! Thank you!! Driver-owned rideshare is here to stay, brought to you by our street, not Wall Street. Onward to $1 million. Let’s goooooo!!! 🙌🚗💰📈🚀
Invest here 👇
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It’s easy if you try 😉
"Imagine if gig workers were compensated for their labor through ownership in the Lyfts and Instacarts of the world. Imagine if companies distributed profits not just to founders and investors, but to their employees and customers" via
@reworkpodcast
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luv 2 b part of a co-op movement 🥰🤝
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The Drivers Cooperative rolled into Albany today to support
@NYLPI
@AHRCNYC
& the movement for disability rights! Honored to receive this Citation for our Access-a-Ride work from
@TomAbinanti
@stefanizinerman
@HarveyforNY
@BurdickAD93
@KhaleelAnderson
@McMahonforNYS
@IamTDarling
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