{"id":2027,"date":"2020-10-29T18:54:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2020-10-29T18:54:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:54:15","slug":"the-gig-worker-ballot-prop-in-california-environmentalists-take-a-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/the-gig-worker-ballot-prop-in-california-environmentalists-take-a-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gig Worker Ballot Prop in California. Environmentalists Take a Side."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a ballot proposition in California that would change current state law treatment of gig workers as employees.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who supports the proposition: Tech companies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who opposes the proposition: Labor and now Environmentalists<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why are environmentalists in on this? The environmentalists say that the proposition would be bad for the environment because only if gig workers are treated as employees will companies pay more attention to the carbon emissions of vehicles in their business models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have scientists said anything about carbon emissions and ride share? Yes, it is estimated ride share increases the carbon emissions that it is replacing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article246733011.html#storylink=cpy\">Sacramento Bee | Environmentalists oppose Uber, Lyft on California\u2019s gig worker initiative. Here\u2019s why<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a ballot proposition in California that would change current state law treatment of gig workers as employees. Who supports the proposition: Tech companies Who opposes the proposition: Labor and now Environmentalists Why are environmentalists in on this? The environmentalists say that the proposition would be bad for the environment because only if gig workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}