Chicago rideshare drivers win $250k outreach fund in 2025 city budget

When the City Council approved Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget on Monday, the 85,000 people who drive for Uber and Lyft in Chicago got something they’ve been fighting for for years: funding to start a worker outreach program. This $250,000 will fund multilingual, multimodal workers’ rights education outreach to rideshare drivers and other gig workers. The program will include information on how to fight wage theft and unfair deactivation, access to labor rights training, and guidance on what to do next when gig corporations like Uber and Lyft violate their rights.