Uber and Lyft drivers staged strikes in at least 10 US cities to protest against unfair pay ahead of Uber's much-anticipated IPO
it's about stealing the narrative Kari Paul / The Guardian : Crossing the digital picket line? Uber and Lyft offer discounts as drivers strike Shirin Ghaffary / Vox : Driver strikes didn't break Uber — but they showed gig economy workers are mad Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post : The Technology 202: Andrew Yang says Uber, Lyft protests show why it's urgent Democrats debate future of work Alexandra S. Levine / Politico : FTC in the House — With help from John Hendel and Margaret Harding McGill Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch : Uber drivers protest ahead of IPO at the company's SF HQ Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo : It Looks Like Uber's Sleazy Approach to Driver Lawsuits Could Be Backfiring Ryan Friedman / The Wrap : Uber, Lyft Drivers Strike Ahead of Uber's $90 Billion Wall Street Debut Tonya Riley / Mother Jones : Here's What Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Saying About the Uber Strike Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider : PHOTOS: Uber drivers across the world are striking about pay, conditions, and the firm's ‘orgy of greed’ Tweets: Scott Heins / @scottheins : Today I made some portraits of drivers and activists backing the #UberLyftStrike for the @nytimes. It was a privilege! Read their international coverage of today's ride share labor action here: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Bernie Sanders / @sensanders : Uber and Lyft drivers are struggling as they work for billion-dollar companies. These drivers are not “independent contractors”—they are employees who deserve rights and benefits. I stand in solidarity with them as they strike today for a dignified life. https://mashable.com/... @blaw : Uber using legal arbitration to deal with driver compensation complaints seemed like the smart play: it would preclude costly class-action litigation, it was private, and few drivers would go to the trouble. That may have been a miscalculation. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Jeremy Corbyn / @jeremycorbyn : Uber cannot be allowed to get away with huge payouts for their CEOs while refusing to pay drivers a decent wage and respect their rights at work. Stand with these workers on strike today, across the UK and the world, asking you not to use Uber between 7am and 4pm. #UberShutDown Ken Yeung / @thekenyeung : As protestors picket Uber's San Francisco offices, what are the other tenets in the building, like Square, advising their employees to do to avoid the crowds and being unfairly targeted? @latimes : However, the fragmented nature of the workforce makes it difficult to involve drivers in actions like this. “By nature we're isolated in what we do . . . And so you have to spend a lot of money and energy just trying to find drivers,” Martinez explains. https://www.latimes.com/... Kate Clark / @kateclarktweets : Huge crowd at the protest for driver's rights @Uber's headquarters already: https://techcrunch.com/... pic.twitter.com/NB3IW0xBZn Ryan Freitas / @ryanchris : Posit: it will have absolutely zero impact in any major metro on either ETA or price. Leif / @leifjohnson : I checked the fares in light of today's Uber strike, and I'm surprised to see that they're more or less normal for a 3.5-mile trip to downtown. pic.twitter.com/JEq7ZoQ3LH Pretty Fly / @pt : Same here. I don't imagine companies will release data on this, but I do wonder if news articles on the strike will outnumber folks who chose protesting over working today. https://twitter.com/... Aditya Kalra / @adityakalra : As Uber gears up for its stock listing, Indian drivers are talking about their shattered dreams. Reuters interviewed more than 35 drivers who said sharp cut in incentives in recent years had jolted them https://www.reuters.com/... Ashwani Mahajan / @ashwani_mahajan : In interviews in the metropolises of Mumbai, New Delhi and Bengaluru, more than 35 drivers said discontent against Uber was growing. As Uber gears up for IPO, many Indian drivers talk of shattered dreams. https://www.reuters.com/... Mark Milian / @markmilian : Uber's decision to force practically all legal challenges into private arbitration turned out to be significantly more expensive than if it just dealt with a bunch of class-action lawsuits https://www.bloomberg.com/... Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew : Uber's IPO will mint a new class of millionaires and billionaires. Meanwhile, these Uber drivers sleep in their cars to survive. “To make a living and survive in San Francisco, we have to drive 70 or 80 hours per week.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ... @business : For Uber, using legal arbitration to deal with driver compensation complaints seemed like the smart play. That may have been a mistake https://www.bloomberg.com/... Ellen K. Pao / @ekp : Whoa what a mess. Forced arbitration bites back at Uber with drivers filing 60,000 arbitration demands https://www.bloomberg.com/... Kevin Burke / @derivativeburke : Irony of a Lyft/Uber strike is they lose money on every ride so it will probably result in their most profitable day this year. @nytimes : Uber drivers in Australia briefly went on strike, the beginning of a planned series of protests in more than a dozen cities around the world https://nyti.ms/2VssBDX Clint Smith / @clintsmithiii : Shout out to the Uber & Lyft drivers going on strike today. These folks deserve better wages than what they're currently receiving. Please consider supporting them by using a different means of transportation today. White Phlegminist / @akatookey : Apparently uber and lyft are emailing out coupons to folks. Don't fall for this shit. The gig economy exists in part to kill the labor movement, and as its customers we HAVE to hold the line when organizing happens. Don't cross the line tomorrow!!! Plan to take the bus/car pool Johana Bhuiyan / @jmbooyah : Big day today as drivers around the country as well as some international markets strike and protest Uber and Lyft. But drivers aren't banking on Uber making any changes, they're looking to send a message to legislators to force Uber to. My story: https://www.latimes.com/...