District 6 Councilor Kendra Lara, who proposed the resolution opposing the ballot measure, made it a point Wednesday to highlight the vulnerable communities she said are being taken advantage of by tech giants looking to skimp on employee benefits. "So when companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash propose a deceptive ballot question denying employees vital workplace protections, we take it as a direct attack on women, especially working women of color," Lara said in a rally held outside City Hall preceding the council meeting. Lara spoke about the increase of women drivers at Uber, which she said saw an 80% increase in the last year, while UberEats saw its number of female drivers double between April 2020 and January 2022. Moreover, at food delivery service Instacart, Lara said, some 600,000 of the companies drivers are women. She and other councilors made it clear that they don't believe in the benefits app-based companies claim to be providing.