Springfield, MA Workers Celebrate

Seventy-thousand Lyft and Uber drivers in Massachusetts formed a union on May 25. “I'm thrilled,” Peter Cianciolo told the Valley Post in a voice phone interview on May 28. He lives in Springfield, Massachusetts and has been a Lyft driver since 2017. Cianciolo grew up in Connecticut and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts in 2012. “I'm very excited. It's an incredible feeling to be part of history.”

Cianciolo is a full-time Lyft driver, as are the vast majority of Lyft and Uber drivers. “I've given over 18,000 rides,” he said. “The company is paying us less and less. They don't treat us like humans. There is no due process for de-activations.” Being de-activated is like being fired.

Uber paid its CEO $39 million in the “fiscal year” that ended September 30, 2024. That's the most recent fiscal year that data was available for. Lyft's CEO made $1 million that fiscal year.

The workers have a web page at:

www.facebook.com/AppDriversUnion

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In Brattleboro on June 6 at 12:30 p.m., there will be a protest outside Citizens Bank. The bank is “helping for-profit prison companies get the cash they need to lock more people away in ICE detention.” That quote is from:

www.de-ICEcitizensBank.org

The protest is bring organized by the Brattleboro chapter of the national group Indivisible.

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Wendell, Massachusetts borders Montague, which borders Greenfield. In Wendell, 80 acres will be “forever wild,” Dave Small told the Valley Post on May 27. He works for a group that has a web site at www.MountGrace.org.

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