BOSTON (SHNS) – As of early Wednesday morning, Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts appeared on track to be able to negotiate their wages, benefits and working conditions, with voters favoring Question 3 by solid margins.
As of 1 a.m. Wednesday with 73 percent of votes tallied, 54 percent of voters supported the initiative to allow app-based drivers the right to unionize, and 46 percent opposed it.
“They thought they were too big for us to stand against them. They thought that will we not have our union. But by every indication, we are… They should know that they got it wrong,” driver Cletus Awah said at around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, before there were official results, at an election night party in downtown Boston hosted by 32BJ SEIU…