Build Driver-Owned Rideshare in Minnesota!
$2,588.50
Raised
50
Donations
$35,000
Goal
Co-op Minnesota: Build Driver-Owned Rideshare in the Northcountry!
Uber and Lyft are threatening to leave Minneapolis if the City Council enacts an ordinance to establish a minimum pay rate for drivers of $1.40/mile and 51 cents/minute. Similar pay regulations have been enacted in New York City and Seattle. In New York, drivers came together and launched a driver-owned rideshare platform, Co-op Ride, which sets pay rates at 10% above the minimum, while fares for riders are usually a little cheaper than Uber because the co-op takes only a 15% commission, with profits reinvested in growth or refunded to workers as dividends. On its public contracts, the co-op provided drivers a $30/hr guarantee.
If they can do it, we can do it.
Let Uber and Lyft leave. The Minnesota Uber-Lyft Driver Association is launching a driver-owned rideshare platform with support from the team that built Co-op Ride in New York City.
We need your help to make it happen. Here’s how you can help build driver-owned rideshare in Minneapolis:
Donate. We need to raise $35,000 for engineering and other costs for the creation of the Minnesota Drivers' Cooperative. Until the cooperative is incorporated, funds go to Driver Systems for pre-development work to launch the cooperative.
Download the Co-op Ride app (for riders: http://urlgeni.us/coop), or Co-op Drive app (for drivers: http://urlgeni.us/coopdrive) to help recruit riders and drivers!
We will be raising capital later for incorporation, licensing, insurance, and other startup costs for the Minnesota Drivers Cooperative.
Help give Minnesota the rideshare co-op we need!
Donor Wall11
Drew | $50
Come to Seattle next! Actually, we're a bunch of gross NIMBYs now, but there may still be enough cool people to make it work.
Nat Froiland
Adam | $20
From ride-hailing to social media, let's have tools that serve the people, not billionaires.
Addy | $50
Amanda Trainor | $50
Robert Lewis | $20
Drivers deserve a fair wage, solidarity y’all!
Renee Herskovitz | $25
Satish Desai | $20
Soren Stevenson | $50
So excited!
Arianna Feldman | $20
Solidarity!
Sara | $100