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Uber drivers to protest ahead of company’s plan to eliminate fuel surcharges as gas prices increase
Rideshare drivers in Massachusetts are anticipated to protest Tuesday as Uber plans to get rid of gas surcharges whereas gasoline costs are nonetheless rising.
“If something, they need to be growing the surcharges,” Eric Vasallo, a Massachusetts rideshare driver, mentioned in a press launch.
Uber started including a gas surcharge on March 16 after “the latest spike in gasoline costs has affected rideshare and supply drivers.” The costs ranged from 45 cents to 55 cents on every Uber journey and 35 cents to 45 cents on every Uber Eats order “with 100% of that cash going on to staff’ pockets.”
The non permanent change was set for 60 days and is ready to finish in June. However gasoline costs have continued to extend.
Massachusetts Is Not For Sale, a staff’ advocacy group, is main the protest and said that each Uber and Lyft are “leaving drivers to bear the brunt of escalating costs of $5 per gallon or extra alone.”
On Monday, AAA mentioned the nationwide common was $5.01, which was an all-time excessive “by no means seen since AAA started accumulating pricing information in 2000.”
In March, when the gas surcharge was put in place, the common gasoline worth was round $4.
Lyft introduced in March it was implementing the gas surcharge “till additional discover,” and The Verge reported that it might final for at the least 60 days. The corporate has not said if it plans to proceed the surcharge previous June.
Wes McEnany, director of Massachusetts Is Not For Sale, referred to as it a “shame” that Uber is ending the surcharge, “particularly as gasoline costs are at report highs throughout the nation.”
“Drivers are already left to fend for themselves to cowl repairs, taxes, medical insurance and different prices,” McEnany mentioned. “They haven’t any job protections, resembling sick and additional time pay, household depart, employee’s compensation and extra.”
McEnany added that app-based firms like Uber and Lyft had been additionally pushing a controversial poll measure in Massachusetts that will classify its drivers as exterior brokers from the bigger firms, probably stopping clients from suing Uber and Lyft. He mentioned the businesses will proceed to make the most of staff, particularly if the state’s voters fail to defeat that measure.
The group can be protesting Tuesday in entrance of Uber Headquarters in Saugus.
Others are feeling the ache of gasoline costs too.
In Amherst, Ren’s Mobil, a neighborhood gasoline station that has been round because the Seventies, has determined to shut in response to the rise in gasoline costs.
Based on Jeff Gladu, the station supervisor and the proprietor’s son, Mobil turned a report revenue final quarter, squeezing him, his father and their clients dry.
“[Mobil is] simply being grasping,” Gladu mentioned. “If thats the best way [Mobil is] going to play, we aren’t going to do it anymore.”
Though the gasoline station will proceed their restore enterprise and to promote used automobiles, the way forward for the station stays unknown.
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This Bedroom Activity is Very Risky in Massachusetts
Massachusetts is home to some strange laws. Many of the laws were passed years, and years ago so they don’t hold up or are enforced today, yet they are still on the books.
There’s One Bedroom Activity That’s Technically Illegal in Massachusetts
One particular Massachusetts law I found interesting is something that people do every day in the privacy of theirhomes: snoring. Believe it or not, there’s a law in Massachusetts (according to multiple sources) that prohibits snoring in your home unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely locked.
Is There Any Logic Behind This Massachusetts Law?
Okay, in one small way I get that you don’t want to disturb the peace hence, the closing of the windows, but does one snore so loudly that neighbors throughout the neighborhood are disturbed by it? I find that hard to believe but then again maybe it has happened. Laws are formed for a reason. Furthermore, is the locking of windows really going to make that big of a difference?
Another question I have about this is what if I fall asleep in my kitchen, living room and/or basement and those windows are open but the bedroom windows are closed and locked? Is the act of snoring still illegal? Technically the state of the bedroom windows would be following the law.
This is a lot of silliness but it is fun to examine these strange Massachusetts laws and poke holes in them. Residents of Boston, Worcester, the Berkshires, and everywhere in between better take note and keep the snoring to a low roar.
Could you imagine if this Massachusetts snoring law was strictly enforced? Oh, my word. Many of my family members would be paying a fine or spending a night in the big house. This includes me. I wonder if it would be illegal for them/us to snore in jail…lol.
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California man charged with threatening to ‘shoot up’ Massachusetts businesses in explicit voicemails
A California man is charged with threatening to shoot up Massachusetts companies over five extremely explicit phone calls.
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Treasure mystery: Who found the gold statue in Mass. woods — and who gets the bounty?
We now know the identity of the clever treasure hunter who tracked down a gold statue worth more than $25,000 — though whether he gets to keep tens of thousands more in bounty money apparently remains up in the air.
Dan Leonard, a meteorologist in Andover, Massachusetts, was identified as the winner, not by the founders of Project Skydrop, but by NBC affiliate News Center Maine, which actually introduced Leonard and the people whose puzzle he solved in the woods of Wendell State Forest.
Leonard described the moment to founders Jason Rohrer and Tom Bailey like this: “I’m kind of in disbelief that this is happening. I see the camera so expertly hidden in that stump, and I think, ‘Oh my god.’”
The digital treasure hunt for the gold statue whose value was appraised at $26,536.25 sparked widespread speculation from puzzle enthusiasts and more. The founders created clues to make the search hard, but not too hard, specifying an area where the 10-ounce, 24-karat gold statue could be that shrank every day. People could also pay $20 to receive a daily clue, which helped fund the bounty.
People are searching for a golden statue worth more than $25,000.
The circle was centered roughly on Greenfield, Massachusetts, north along the Connecticut River from Springfield.
The person who tracked the statue down was seen on cameras grabbing the puzzle off the floor, but the Skydrop organizers didn’t hear from him until News Center Maine reached out. Leonard explained that he narrowed down where the treasure could be based on the temperature recorded in the camera, plus the cloud cover and plant life seen in the stream.
When they did meet, Leonard learned there was a catch to claiming the bounty, as News Center Maine reported: the prize could only be accessed by solving clues written onto the trophy itself, which technically meant that anyone with access to the statue could crack the code and claim the money.
Leonard was surprised, but not particularly bothered, saying, “Let’s say I don’t get it: I still had a really good time and got a treasure out of it.”
Rohrer shared more about the circumstances around Leonard’s victory in a message to the game’s official Discord server, a social media chat site where players were able to get more information about what happened.
The winner’s name is Dan Leonard. A news channel up in Maine figured out who he was, based on their meteorologist connections. They connected us with him, and we got to talk to him on camera yesterday. That encounter should appear on the news soon.
Dan joined Project Skydrop for $20 on October 25. He explained how he solved it. Along with weather patterns, temperature data, and cloud cover stuff from the trail cameras, he also depended heavily on the aerial image clues. He said it would have been impossible to solve if:
- He had no aerial clues
or - We had cropped the temperature sensor data off the camera images.
The aerial clues helped him in two ways. First, they showed him that the treasure was in a large, deciduous beech grove, and there aren’t many large beech groves in the Erving area. Second, they showed him a “map” of what the scene looked like around the treasure (the logs, etc.)
He never had an exact GPS coordinate figured out. He was simply walking the (few) large beech groves in Wendell, looking for the distinctive logs that he saw in the clues.
The temperature sensor data and weather patterns just helped him narrow down the area.
Also, he actually stared right at the treasure and didn’t see it. He walked away, thinking he had found the wrong logs. He was about to leave (he walked off-camera for 1 min and 30 seconds), and then he came back to take one more look, because those logs looked like such a close match. Then, staring at the leaves in the spot he had already checked, he suddenly saw that the treasure was there after all. He said it was almost impossible to see.
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