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Zohran Mamdani hints he will continue taking on delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 155 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

"Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%," Mamdani wrote on X. "In January, we made these corporations change their apps."

Not on board with this, JUST PAY THEM A PROPER WAGE.

Tipping culture is stupid.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 60 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

While I share the sentiment, he doesn't have control over Federal wage laws. Ensuring that being tipped sufficiently is the norm is about the best option he has to protect tipped wages. I'm not sure if he can somehow ban tipped employment within the city or not. If he can, maybe that'll be planned in the future.

[–] KumaLumaJuma@feddit.uk 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Can cities not set their own? Federal minimum wage is the floor if the local legislation doesn’t set a minimum.

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They can. Seattle’s minimum wage is the highest in the country, and we even have mandated that delivery services pay this minimum wage. Now they show “extra fees” to “pay for this” like they didn’t have the money for it before…

[–] KumaLumaJuma@feddit.uk 4 points 12 hours ago

Annoying but it’s a start in the right direction.

It’s ridiculous anyway that federal minimum wage is still $7.25 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago

Setting minimum wages is different than outright banning tipping.

[–] TheHotze@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

It depends on the state. In Nebraska, two of the largest cities are fighting a legal battle over whether they can raise minimum wage to meet a ballot initiative that the unicameral watered down.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

taking away their shitty toys has to be done too.