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Dec 10, 2019 · Tech. She was Instacart’s biggest cheerleader. Now she’s leading a worker revolt. As the online grocery delivery company experiments with wages, some of the companies’ independent contractors are...
Mar 5, 2021 · Vanessa Bain who worked as a gig worker for Instacart early on in the COVID-19 outbreak, has transitioned to working full-time as the executive director of the gig worker organizing nonprofit...
- Kate Bradshaw
- On The Amazon Union Drive
- On The Effects of Prop 22
- On The Pro Act
Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are in the midst of a historic union drive. Smalls, who was fired from his job at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island last year after speaking out about the lack of personal protective equipment, told me he recently spent a few days in Bessemer. Meanwhile, President Biden recently came out in support o...
Already, Prop 22 has affected industries outside of tech. In December, supermarket chain Albertsons began replacing delivery drivers with contractors and hundreds of employees in California were swapped for DoorDash workers, Bloomberg reported. Meanwhile, tech companies have spoken about implementing Prop 22-like legislation in other parts of the c...
There’s legislation in the U.S. Senate right now that aims to make it easier for workers to organize and form unions in the country. The Protecting the Right to Organize Act seeks to change labor laws in favor of giving workers more power. Bain spoke about the importance of getting the PRO Act across the line in light of the passing of Prop 22 in C...
Mar 5, 2021 · by Kate Bradshaw March 5, 2021 1:35 pm. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Vanessa Bain who worked as a gig worker for Instacart early on in the COVID-19 outbreak, has transitioned to working full-time as the executive director of the gig worker organizing nonprofit Gig Workers Collective. Photo by Sammy Dallal.
- Kate Bradshaw
Kshama Sawant sat down with Vanessa Bain, a leading voice behind the Instacart rebellion. She explains where the idea for a strike was born, how they'll carr...
Mar 31, 2020 · We are potentially going to be vectors of this disease,” said Vanessa Bain, an Instacart shopper and leader of the group organizing the strike, Gig Workers Collective.
Vanessa Bain is a former educator from Silicon Valley that began working as a Shopper for Instacart in 2016. Bain has been grassroots organizing Instacart Shoppers for the past four years and has organized six Shopper walkouts and boycotts. In January 2020, she cofounded Gig Workers Collective, an organization that fosters worker-led organizing
