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Chicago Gig Alliance has been working hard since 2019 to improve conditions for folks working in the gig economy. In 2022, we introduced the Rideshare Living Wage and Safety Ordinance to Chicago City Council. The ordinance would improve conditions for thousands of workers by providing a much needed pay increase and wage standard, improve worker safety through common sense regulation; and provide more worker protections for people who drive for Uber and Lyft. Our goal is pass this historic legislation in 2023 and to then enact a similar ordinance to protect delivery workers. We believe all workers deserve basic safety, dignity and a living wage and will continue work tirelessly to make sure it happens.

Our Environmental Justice team is currently working on a project to fight against unjust price gouging in natural gas and electric bills by large corporations. This Winter of Discontent campaign feeds into our larger CEJA implementation campaign because it gives people an entry point into  talking about why climate justice is necessary and how it effects each and every community.

The Pretrial Fairness Act restores the presumption of innocence and makes Illinois safer by ending money bond and the unconstitutional practice of caging people pretrial simply because they cannot afford to buy their freedom. This historic legislation was passed after The People’s Lobby and our partners in the Coalition to End Money Bond and the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice spent years organizing people around Illinois.