With the recent departure of Travis Kalanick and many of his top deputies, Uber has an opportunity to
move forward as an ethical company. You, as lead investors, have put out your recommendations for
Moving Uber Forward, and your board has adopted the full set of recommendations in the report on
corporate culture that it commissioned.
Those are good steps, but Ubers stakeholders include a much larger group than private equity, venture
capitalists, and other large investors. Making changes only at the corporate leadership level creates a
dangerous likelihood that Ubers sustained ethics challenges will resurface.
The best way for Uber to move forward is for the company to make real, transparent, and enforceable
commitments to its drivers, its riders, and the communities in which it operates. A partnership with these
constituencies has the potential to transform the company, and to hold Uber accountable to the higher
standards to which it aspires.
We, the undersigned, offer the following as the type of commitments that would help Uber to transition
from an ethically compromised corporation to a better business.
a. Share, with appropriate privacy safeguards, the data that communities need to
understand and help shape Ubers real impact on transportation and jobs as it moves into
other forms of transportation,
d. Comply with core labor standards like anti-discrimination laws and overtime pay;
e. Recognize and negotiate with the independent workers organizations that represent
its drivers; and
3. Honor riders.
b. Safe equal service for all, especially communities of color and people with disabilities; and
c. Share the data that riders, regulators, and researchers need to hold Uber accountable to
those values.
AFL-CIO
AFSCME
Pittsburgh United
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