Minneapolis will become the only major metro area in the U.S. without Uber on May 1.
Uber and Lyft have vowed to stop offering service in Minneapolis starting May 1 after the city council voted 10-3 on Thursday to override the mayor’s veto on a minimum wage for drivers. Minnesota’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz, vetoed a similar pay floor for rideshare drivers statewide last year. Uber said it would leave the entire metropolitan area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, home to about 3.7 million people, though stressed the state has been working on a resolution.
51 per minute, though local independent news outlet the Minnesota Reformer points out that’s different from an analysis published by the state in 2022 which estimates drivers in Minneapolis would need to earn $0.89 per mile and $0.49 per minute to achieve the minimum wage. Minneapolis has a large Somali-American community, which mobilized support for the wage hike for drivers in the Twin Cities through the Minneapolis Uber/Lyft Drivers Association .
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