The taxi industry cheers! >Drivers are human beings with families, and they deserve dignified minimum wages like all other workers,” Jamal Osman, a council member who co-authored the policy, said in a statement "Deserve?" Actually, people deserve a government that doesn't try to kill them, burn them, starve them and lock them down. Pay rates can't be coerced: it's negotiated by the employer and the provider. It's a communist idea to interfere with contracts between people. >Today’s vote showed Uber, Lyft, and the Mayor that the Minneapolis City Council will not allow the East African community, or any community, to be exploited for cheap labor But it's perfectly OK to exploit them for votes and to darken the population.