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Final Script Scoop Troop
Final Script Scoop Troop
● Rideshare protest footage “We are here because the app companies are
○ Courtesy of Madjed Kamel going out of control. We want fair pay for
Zegrar drivers. We do the job. “
● Uber / Lyft pick-up zone signs THE STRIKES DID NOT COME OUT
● More riders putting their bags in trunks OF NOWHERE BUT RATHER AS A
● Phone shot of a rider navigating the Uber
app
RESULT OF BUILT-UP
● Graphic for Proposition 22 FRUSTRATION.
● Law books blur to reveal “Independent MANY DRIVERS EXPRESSED THEIR
Rideshare Work” and “Policy Benefiting LOSS OF TRUST FOR THE
Rideshare Giants” RIDESHARE COMPANIES AFTER
● Phone shot of a rider navigating the Lyft UBER AND LYFT ALLEGEDLY
app
TRICKED THEM INTO VOTING FOR
A BALLOT THEY DIDN'T FULLY
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UNDERSTAND. PROPOSITION 22
WENT INTO EFFECT IN NOVEMBER
2020. IT DEFINED RIDESHARE AS
INDEPENDENT RIDESHARE WORK
AND ADDITIONALLY ADOPTED
POLICIES BENEFITING THE
RIDESHARE GIANTS. DURING THE
WEEKS BEFORE ELECTION DAY,
THE RIDESHARE COMPANIES
BOMBARDED THEIR DRIVERS AND
CUSTOMERS WITH MESSAGES
THROUGHOUT THEIR APPS URGING
THEM TO APPROVE OF PROP.22.
SOT Stacey Leyton “Uber and Doordash and Lyft, they really tell
TRT 13 sec the drivers that, if you want flexibility, you
have to become an independent contractor.
And so, some drivers hear that and feel like,
well, I do want my flexibility, I do want to set
my own hours. That's not actually true.”
● Uber / Lyft pick-up zone signs FOR OVER A DECADE, BOTH UBER
● A Car with an Uber sign on the AND LYFT HAVE TURNED INTO
dashboard TODAY’S LEADING RIDE-HAILING
● Graphic of a map with pins to APPS, AVAILABLE IN 70 COUNTRIES
resemble where Uber and Lyft WORLDWIDE. WITH THE BOOM OF THE
operate. RIDESHARE INDUSTRY, BEFORE PROP
● Wide shot of Uber office entrance 22, A PROVISION TO PROTECT
● Close-up of someone reading legal CALIFORNIA DRIVERS WENT INTO
material blurs to display “Assembly EFFECT. THIS PROVISION IS KNOWN
Bill 5.” AS AB 5
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SOT Stacey Leyton “It also does not provide any unemployment
TRT 6 sec protections. you are not protected by the
worker's comp.”
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SOT Guillermo Santa Cruz “The problem with Uber, you know, they
TRT 20 secs don't, they don't, they don't have a cap of
drivers. They just add more and more and
more and more. So the first year we were
maybe where I park, you know, where ten
drivers in the last year it was 40, 40 drivers.
That's the reason I quit.”
● B-roll of a wide shot of the highway VO: ONGOING LEGAL BATTLES IN THE
with cars driving by. COURTS HAS LATON’S LAW FIRM
● B-roll of Uber and Lyft drivers WORKING HARD TO OVERTURN
driving through a pick-up location PROPOSITION 22 AND TO ADDRESS
THESE ISSUES THAT DRIVERS
CONTINUE TO FACE.
Voice of AL
TRT 16sec
● B-roll of Uber and Lyft cars picking “This is like wicked stuff, but I know
up customers. something; Uber is like an empire, and there
● Uber sign low-angle shot is no empire through history that stays on top.
● Uber sign, wide shot What goes up must come down.”