What? An Iran vs Pakistan war- and we’re not part of it? God, we are slacking!

@1: looks like they're both attacking each other's Balochis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochistan

If the DoorDash surcharge goes to protect workers, isn't that a good thing?

Just stop using Door Dash and get your own damn food.

@4,

Was gonna say the same. Given people, I want as few of them involved with the handling and procurement of my food as possible.

@4
I call it Amazon delivery for Democrats: You want something delivered- get it yourself!

Uber Eats also added a $5 fee, they just didn’t announce it, it’s broken out in the total now. Instacart also announced they will add a fee in response.

@4, 5 Apparently I'm old and or have privileged transportation? I think that food tastes better in a restaurant. If I'm bringing it home, I want to do it myself so that it takes the minimum possible amount of time in transit. And only people with food handler's licenses handling it besides me.

@8: plus all the packaging, ugh. little <3" plastic containers, poly-lined cardboard that can't be composted, paper sacks, plastic bags.

anyone driven down north B'Way at night recently? the center turn lane is filled with the double-parked vehicles of food delivery drivers.

One of the main reasons the company that flogs the once-respected brand name Macy's closed the downtown Seattle store (Other than their complete incompetence at marketing and the fact that Amazon made them an offer they couldn't refuse, especially considering that aforementioned incompetence) was because the downtown store was unionized, and they prefer to hire people they can boss around.

Macy's has been dead to me for a long time.

If I'm already spending $30-$50 minimum for food deliveries already, $5 is just a drop in the bucket. It was always a luxury anyway, picking up the food yourself is always an affordable option. That being said, I know there is a small population of people with mobility issues who rely on services like Instacart for grocery shopping. It would be nice to see an exemption for those users.

If you're so mad that Door Dash is passing along the tax/fee on to the customers instead of paying it out of their corporate coffers... maybe you should buy your own food or stop pushing companies for ~better~ benefits. No company is ever gonna eat another fee if they can just pass it along to the consumer instead. That's business, baby.

The announced surcharge is sleazy politicking.

The surcharge itself is not. This Stranger whining (and of course, it would be the "Hannah" performance art collective) is just another example of typical Seatle lefty vote in benefits you want other people than you to pay for. The majority of the voters elected the people who voted this in, which raised business costs. It's not the responsibility of the DoorDash customers in Findlay, OH to subsidize paying for the benefits we voted in for our regional DoorDash staff. You voted for it, you pay for it.

BTW - I support all of the benefits, I just don;t whine they have to be paid for.

@15 Not to nit, but I don't think Hannah brings up the surcharge notice to "whine" but to point out that Doordash and similar businesses are actively smearing this regulation and will more likely lean on the newly minted moderate city council to revert the legislation.

I got that Seattle doordash notice and I am not in the county or even area code

neither judges nor legislators are in the slightest position to be able to make technical decisions. Legislators will be spoonfed technical positions by lobbysists, and judges will have mercenary lawyers misrepresent what expert witnesses tell them.

@12 Catalina Vel-DuRay: At the rate Macy's is going, I wouldn't be surprised if the store at Bellis Fair Mall in Bellingham is next on the list of closures.

@18 You are so right about that. The whole gamut of government operations will be affected if Chevron goes down. It really can't be overstated. Acceptable levels of environmental contaminants in your air and water. The ability of agencies to swiftly respond to natural or public health disasters. Which types of providers are covered under Medicare and whether brand name drugs face and generic competition. Who needs to get permits to fill in wetlands. Whether certain federal consumer protection agencies can even exist. Not to mention averting a global climate catastrophe and the next mass extinction event. To think Congress can make these decisions in a way that better protects the public interest in a post-Citizens United environment is absurd. Government would be handcuffed from doing much of anything effective, and fully exposed to pay-to-play legislative malfeasance as you noted. But these arrogant justices and the Federalist intelligencia think they know best. They either don't know or don't care what it takes to implement even well-crafted federal legislation.

"To think Congress can make these decisions in a way that better protects the public interest in a post-Citizens United environment is absurd."
--@periwinkle

yeah but they
Don't think that:

they just wanna be
Rid of the Nanny State*
that disrupts corporate Profit-
eering & penalizes the Invesrtor Class
from maximizing Shareholder Value a God-
Given RIGHT in the richest country in History.

it's not about
Right or Wrong
it's about the God-
Given Rights of Capitalism.

which may prove a
little Troubling for more
than a few of tS's Commentariat.

*the Deconstruction
of the Administrative State
--Steve Bannon, pardoned 'Wall
Builder" who bilked MAGAts outta
Millions & then pardoned by fellow
Fascist the disgraced El ratto trumpfarto

It seems to me the simple solution is not allowing corporations, nonprofits, etc. play the contractor scam - if you’re working on behalf of someone, you should be treated as an employee under the law (if the courts could hold big tech to this standard, not sure why Uber, Doordash, etc. should be immune). Gig work is a lie that needs to die.

@22
Yes,Kristo, here in the good old USA it’s profits, profits Uber allés!
When is fascism not fascism?
When is a bribe not a bribe?
Just ask our Supreme Court!