Polls in California predict Uber and Lyft will lose Proposition 22
The battle that disruptive companies like Uber, Lyft, Instacart and Doordash fight in California against the AB5 Law that protects workers, it is still difficult to predict.
Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and Doordash have spent $ 180 million on advertising to try to convince voters that their Proposition 22 protects workers.
On November 3, it will be decided at the ballot box whether these companies can continue to exploit the workers, -classified as self-employed-, or whether it will be necessary to register them as employees.
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Five and a half weeks before the election, a survey conducted by the Institute for Government Studies at the University of California at Berkeley shows how close the decision can be.
The poll was conducted in English and Spanish between September 9 and 15 with a total of 7,198 people registered to vote, of which 5,942 were likely to vote in the November presidential election.
The result was that 39% of respondents would vote “Yes” on Proposition 22 to keep Uber and Lyft drivers self-employed, while 36% would vote “No”. The remaining 25% of respondents had not decided.
Of the respondents who are Democrats, 31% said “Yes” and 42% said “No”, while among Republicans 53% said “Yes” and 29% said “No”.
In Los Angeles County 38% said “Yes” and exactly the same percentage said “No”, with 24% undecided, while in the San Francisco Bay area 31% said “Yes “And 42% said” No “.
In San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and some Central Valley counties, the percentages of respondents who said “Yes” were higher than those who said “No”.
Proposition 22 requires more than 50% of the votes. Otherwise, Uber and Lyft would have to start reclassifying their drivers as employees.
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Polls in California predict Uber and Lyft will lose Proposition 22
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