Thousands of U.S. ride-hailing workers plan to park their cars and picket at major U.S. airports Wednesday in what organizers say is their largest strike yet in a drive for better pay and benefits.
Uber and Lyft drivers plan daylong strikes in Chicago; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Miami; Orlando and Tampa, Florida; Hartford, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Austin, Texas; and Providence, Rhode Island. Drivers also plan to hold midday demonstrations at airports in those cities, according to Justice for App Workers, the group organizing the effort.
They can strike all they want, they work for a business whose model only functions off of squeezing their employees, so it’s either squeeze the employee’s or collapse.
Personally I think they should collapse and people should riot in the streets until their respective governments cave and say fuck you to the oil industry and start building public transport infrastructure
What would actually happen is shitty taxis would come back and most places in the US would lose the ability to get ad hoc transportation.
So be it.
If you don’t fight for it you don’t get it.
No amount of striking will make ridesharing (or taxis for that matter) profitable and their employee’s paid a living wage.
End of story.
Somehow I don’t believe their numbers. Average $30/hr and $23/hr after expenses. IRS milage is $0.67/mi. Are they really saying über drivers are only driving about 10 miles every hour, or are they just offloading that working expense onto drivers and only accounting for the ~$3 per gallon fuel consumption?
Today is the day. Are they doing it? I mean are they going on strike! Please don’t tell me if they currently doing it, or what their favorite position is
I know a guy who drives for uber & said he makes more doing that than at his “real” job
It varies greatly from region to region. Don’t assume that money will keep coming. In a couple of years the roads could very well be saturated by other drivers.
oh, they are - he drives from the airport to downtown & back, says his average hourly is $45
