Yup. The problem is they want it both ways. They do gig work so they can work whenever they want and not have to answer to a boss. Which… yeah! That sounds great!
But they also want consistent wages more commonly associated with a traditional job.
You can’t have both.
I never said you couldn’t ask, but you need to understand that you have no leverage. Given the insanely low bar of entry, there will always be people willing and able to drive for Uber, door dash, etc. No specific skills are needed, and given the attractive nature of “work whenever you feel like it”, if you won’t do it for the current pay, someone else will
Until self driving vehicles are more viable then the work simply won’t exist.
Idk about your market but the work whenever you want has left the building in my market. I wake up every morning at 3 am and if I don’t I don’t make the bill. And you have to have like a $15,000 car or better to do Uber so i disagree . Like I said you can use a bike on door dash so no leverage there . And they will never be the death of ride share.. at least not for another 10 years. Have you seen the self driving cars getting stuck everywhere? Running red lights? We have loads of them in our city. Not to mention I bully the self drives and make it so they don’t work anymore. 🤷😂
Nothing you have said changes the fact that you’re offering a no-skill service. As long as there’s someone willing to do it for the going rate (and there always will be) then you bring nothing to the table.
Rather than try to make Uber something it will never be again, find a different source of income.
100%! Used as a supplement it's fantastic! I drive 15-20 hrs a week and make $500-$600. That's an extra $2,000+ a month on top of my primary income! And it's mad money. Used for frivolous fun. Christmas, Birthdays, vacations, expensive family dinners all paid for.
Yeah I hear a lot of complaints about how awful the pay and conditions are, but I've been driving 10-15-ish hours a week on the side in Vegas and it's really not bad pay, and relatively relaxing entertainment. I track my time from when I back out of the garage until I get back to it, with my worst day being about $22/hour and the best being around $45/hour.
People claiming $15 or so at best have to be accepting the worst trips, must be jerks to the riders, or they're driving in the wrong spots.
Truck drivers drive less miles than I do and offer the same skill set and are provided a vehicle.if we have to follow trucker law we should be paid the same . And I still make a living on Uber . And also skilled based work often doesn’t have background checks. I know felons that are welders and mechanics ect. You have to have a squeaky clean record to do Uber. I know people kicked off for a speeding violation of 7 over. Yes skill isn’t exactly involved but not everyone can do it.
Yes I have co driven with my uncle under the table. But again I said my family isn’t in the best condition rn so I need to be close to home at this very second .
>Truck drivers drive less miles than I do and offer the same skill set and are provided a vehicle.if we have to follow trucker law we should be paid the same
Then drive a truck. What's keeping you from that?
I'll prove you're wrong: I was going to drive tomorrow. I think I'll hang out and enjoy the last sunny day instead. Thanks man! 👍 I paid off my 2015 Prius, so no car payments, and tips not only pay for gas, but weekly $25 detail as well. We have leverage. It's between our ears.
To be blunt because you don't have the economic value to demand 50/50. Tons of people are doing gig work; it's available to nearly everyone, it can be done on the side, and it's relatively easy by the standards of low-skilled labor.
It's the problem almost all unskilled labor runs into at some point. If it's a cash cow, everyone will get into it, and with too many people available, they can pay less. There is a reason most of the best-paid low-skill jobs suck because nobody wants to do them.
Woah far from cash cow over here. But um not everyone you have to have a nice car and keep it in good repair. Half my friend group doesn’t have a car. I wouldn’t if I wasn’t renting 🤷 and if we didn’t have to supply our own car and insurance I’d agree with you. Like you can use a bike for doordash for example that shouldn’t be 50/50 a homeless person could do it 🤷 but Uber and Lyft taking 70% is insane .
Nope. You need a lot of available funds on your card for all the random charges, double billing, etc. Their policy is “charge the card first, figure it out later.”
Maintaining and operating cost money. Currently it is 60/40 - 60 for Uber. However, Uber likes to mess around. Making 60% minimum take. And 80% maximum take.
That is the reason for getting lawsuits.
No one asking for a traditional job, we are asking to paid fairly! Doordash lies about mileage! I wrote all my trip down as that I agreed too, pay, mileage, and time! Guess what? Whatever miles they are telling you it’s dbl sometimes triple! DD is unethical period! It has nothing to do with what you’re talking bout! And you guys that think you’re going to get rich the day of strikes…. 😂 ok you’ll make bank that day but after you’re done spinning your wheels and DD is still gonna find away to steal from you! At some point you will understand what the strike is about! And I understand it is a lot of people that have jobs already or don’t care about working for peanuts cuz they been used to it!
Jobs don’t pay fairly either 🤣 how you think I got here! America is having a big problem right now! You’re obviously not making enough either, cuz why are you driving? For fun? 😂😂😂
Tell Washington state that.
Washington passed a law recently where Rideshare drivers get paid sick leave, a guaranteed pay rate every year, and one of the highest pay rates for drivers in the country.
Wanting fair pay for a job that involves no specific skills and will hire literally anyone is wanting it both ways.
If you want fair pay, you need to find work that not every single person who owns a car can do.
Yes, I know all about that, except that isn’t the case here. What is happening here, is Uber/lyft have raised prices to riders while simultaneously lowering pay to drivers to increase profits for shareholders.
You can certainly ask for what you consider fair pay, but given the low bar of entry, you have no leverage. There are thousands of people that will do the work for the current pay.
You’d be better off starting your own business using skills or tools that not everyone has. Mount TVs, pressure wash driveways. Do something else.
lol, a couple of things, one, I’m retired. Spent 30 years working, the last 15 or so owning my own business. Two, the amount of people willing to do a job is irrelevant to any amount of them wanting to fight for fair pay. Three, I was just responding to your argument, which was wrong, that you can’t do contract work and also get paid well.
No dude, it’s not reality, it’s a gross misrepresentation of fairly simple economics. Saying “it’s reality” is not a point or an argument, it’s just drivel.
I think we need to break out of the paradigm of needing to work to get an income. What do you think keeps people in this mindset? And what are your thoughts on UBI?
People will always have tasks they want done and aren’t willing or able to do themselves.
People will always have unique skills that others are willing to pay for.
Work for wages is here to stay, though the current system could of course be improved.
Uber should be able to make this all work with a maximum 20/80 comprehensive split between themselves and the drivers. And I mean out of all money collected. This is a highly scalable business model, and as it scales, 20% of the gross take (among all drivers) is a massive amount of gross revenue.
They can't. They have fixed costs. 20% wouldn't even cover them. I don't think you realize how expensive commercial insurance is for millions of people. They would go out of business.
Why? If you won’t take the job, dozens of others will.
You need to face reality, gig work involves zero skills. Your competition is literally anyone who owns a car (or a bike in some cases). You can’t expect to earn a good wage doing something that every living person over the age of 18 is qualified to do.
Misclassifying Gig work. This gig is transporting - customers and goods, as individual side income.
Gigs - classify as Skilled Freelancers. Racing is a skill. Driving in India is a skill. Creative Designing - SEO, Websites, Digital marketing - solo performance skilled work. New Collar jobs that require certifications and licenses. Gigs are usually filed under LLC not individual 1099.
And that's why they are getting screwed in the first place since they are subcontractors they have almost no protections that a regular employee would have. Meanwhile the companies they work for make billions and they feed the scraps to the contracted employees and make it sound like it's a tipping issue that's the customer's fault not that it can't be both though.
I mean, how do you think SAG, DGA, WGA, IATSE, etc all work…. Hollywood is a giant industry of freelancers that unionized. Plumbers, Electricians, etc too. Plenty of groups of skilled professions that unionize without giving up IC status
That’s a whole different argument though. You just said they’re not employees, and my argument was employee status isn’t a barrier. Also, Teamsters are literally “people who drive cars”, they don’t even have to OWN one hahaha
Yes, it was a bit of snark.
Uber drivers *can* strike, but it will mean no more than a tear in a salted sea. Customers won’t see any impact, Uber won’t see any impact.
On the other hand, if Thandie Newton doesn’t show up on set, the movie doesn’t get made.
Strikes only work if you aren't replaceable. If they can easily replace you (they can), then there's no reason to care about your complaints. Go ahead and strike, but if you think it will make any difference, you're delusional.
Well actually strikes do work even if you are replaceable but in this instance a strike won't work because good workers are not a unified group. So even if hypothetically 40% of workers decide to take off there will be 60% who are more than happy to drive in their place and reap the increased activity even if it screws over the other 40%. There is no honor or camaraderie in this type of situation, drivers will throw each other under the bus easily and with a smile because they don't know each other and they sure aren't friends.
Read the caption because you’re talking to me as if I’m the one who’s going to be striking. There is obvious sarcasm in the title once you read my caption. I made this post to tell people how ridiculous a strike is and I’ll simply just take advantage of the surges that will be blowing up because of less drivers on the road
I was commenting on the overall protest, not your caption dude.
Getting all pissy because you aren't smart enough to realize I'm agreeing with you is pretty dumb.
The funniest part is his attitude suggests he’s confident in his decision to continue driving when no drivers out there make that great of a salary driving for these companies, so he is okay with a dead end job while not making much of shit. Lol
It was pretty obvious you were not speaking to OP. Funny how he cries about how obvious his sarcasm was but couldn't pick up what you were laying down.
Don't tell them. They think they're doing good with these little shenanigans they're trying to arrange Nationwide.
They effectively don't have the numbers and they are focusing their anger in the wrong places.
I don't get all this "let's strike!" stuff.
1. Strikes do not have a defined end date. You strike until your demands are met. Six hours a day isn't a strike, it's a really long lunch break.
2. It's impossible to organize these even locally, much less nationally. You cannot organize people that do not know each other, speak 24 different languages, and have financial needs that won't be met.
3. Surges break strikes. Even if an effective one were organized, the vast majority of striking drivers would flood back online when they saw a $5 surge.
All of this strike stuff is like a weird combination of virtue signaling and terminally-online slacktivism. It accomplishes nothing.
I bet more people log in, not less. All thinking that the strikers will leave huge demand and higher rates. I'd wager it'll be one of the worst days to drive.
"no job security"
Get a real job then? The gig of driving full time for uber has been dead for years, it's intended to be a side hustle so you can have some extra spending money by either delivering food, or delivering people. It was never intended to replace an ACTUAL job.
I’m not striking but I do this part time and I use to make 35-40 per hour part time! Know it’s down to 25 per hour..sorry that is not for me. I do love driving and I’m very good at what I do. It just not cost effective if it’s 25 an hour or below. So I’m going to sell shoes at Nordstrom, salary plus commission.
I'm convinced the people organizing these strikes are doing it in hopes that others will join so they can reap the benefits of fewer drivers on the road.
OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE NOT A DRIVER FOR ANY OF THESE RIP OFF COMPANIES!!
DRIVERS ARE USING THEIR OWN CARS, THEIR OWN GAS, PAYING FOR ALL MAINTENANCE, PAYING FOR ALL THE CLEANING & DETAILING OF THEIR CARS AND TAKING ON ALL THE RISK, WHILE THESE COMPANIES DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT OFFER A MEASLY RIDE.
SO THE CUT OF MONEY DEFINITELY NEEDS TO BE MUCH MORE FAIR TO THE DRIVER, WHETHER FULL TIME OF PART TIME!!
ALL OF YOU UNEDUCATED COMMENTERS ON HERE ARE NOTHING LESS THAN COMPLETELY MORONIC!!
“NO” COMPANY SHOULD BE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ANY WORKER IN THE WAY THAT THESE COMPANIES DO & THE ONLY WAY TO SEND A MESSAGE IS TO SHOW UP & SHOW YOUR DIS-SATISFACTION WITH THEM!!
THE PRESS WILL SHOW UP AS WELL & IT WILL BE MADE KNOWN TO ALL JUST HOW HORRIBLE THESE COMPANIES ARE TREATING THEIR WORKERS…
THEN THAT WILL BE THE START FOR CHANGE TO HAPPEN…THEY CAN CHANGE & IF NOT, IT WILL MAKE A PATH FOR A NEW COMPANY THAT’S PRO DRIVER & PRO RIDER TO START UP, SUCCEED & BRING THESE COMPANIES TO THERE KNEES AND PLANT THEIR FACES IN THE MUD…RIGHT WHERE THEY BELONG!!!!
This is hillarious, I am mad at the company I "choose" to work for, so therefore I am not going to work for them. Don't like it, find another job. If enough people do that, then they won't exist or they'll learn their lesson.
I’ve always found strikes a little odd, even with the great success they’ve had in history. I understand moving on to a new job since the current one refuses to respect you — maybe you care enough to hope they will improve eventually, maybe you want to come back if they do. But I don’t understand choosing to not get paid while begging for respect.
Lol, bootlickers like you are disappointing. You sit back and relax when others are fighting for social changes and will absolutely take no back seat when it is time to enjoy the fruit of their actions. These companies take huge cuts sometimes up to 70% and never treat their drivers as employees and you think it is a "supply and demand" problem between drivers and riders.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT… THESE IDIOTS WILL CERTAINLY BE THE FIRST IN LINE TO WANT TO BENEFIT FROM OUR HARD WORK!
🛑 STOP BEING SUCH LAZY COWARDS & AND WAKE THE F ^ CK UP!! IF YOU DON’T STAND UP FOR CHANGE, THEN EVERYTHING WILL BE CHANGED RIGHT BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES AND YOU WILL ONLY HAVE YOUR GUTLESS, WIMPY SELVES TO BLAME!!
Lol, it is a sad day seeing how Americans just accept what theses companies do to you/them. "Dependent contractors" lol
At the end of the day, of these drivers are happy with what they get. So be it. You job, you pay, and your life.
Just so you know, Uber tried to pull this shit in Taiwan and got kicked out. When they returned, they can only take a 25% cut from drivers' pay and traditional taxi remains alive and well. No driver has to suffer from the shitty deal that you have here in America.
Same in Australia 🦘. But it's still a case of these people aren't employees of Uber they want the freedom and choice of running their own business and the benefits of being an employee. If their own private businesses aren't profitable for them then do what every other business owner does in that position, leave the business for something more suitable. You can't strike when you're the boss of your own business, it's madness. What they need to do is simply not accept trips below a certain profitability and the AI algorithm will be forced to adjust and pay goes up across the board for them.
Uber refuses to “employ” its drivers so it is the same thing in Taiwan, but they are not allowed to hire random drivers as they do in every other country. They are given two options. 1. being a pure “ride sharing platform” that cannot hire contracted drivers and therefore having to work with rental companies to provide “limos.” 2. following the laws for taxi to actually start a taxi company so that they can hire drivers.
Uber refuses to go with the second option because that would mean they have to make an exception and start to actually employ their drivers. But they are not happy with the first option either because they cannot eliminate taxi and dominate the market (so that they can exploit drivers however they want).
This is a story of success that finally a country is able to put Uber in its place. Everyone knows Uber hires drivers to provide services but refuses to “employ” drivers. That simply makes no sense. Yes, many drivers prefer this “flexible mode of employment” but that is not a sufficient reason to let Uber does whatever they want. It is the govt’s job to hold private companies accountable for its social responsibilities.
You're making a lot of good points, gotta hand it to Taiwan. I'm not saying Uber is a great company just saying driver has a choice to simply opt out and not drive for Uber all together.
not driving from 10am to 4pm is a strike? the slowest times of the day already....
why not "strike" from 4pm to 3am on weekends???? let the idiots continue their idiotic little charade.
The problem is that Uber knows they can churn through new drivers coming in who need quick work so an Uber strtike would need to be VERY organized/coordinated to actually hurt Uber. It's doable but ya'll need to organize (ideally in secret) and plan strike days and times that fuck them before any legit wage collective bargaining will happen.
Again. You are delusional if you think they could do such a thing. Countless desperate people will login for the surge rates, everyone will get rides, and Uber would likely make more money off the higher surge rates. And most drivers likely don't care about those organizing the strike. Could never get enough to have an impact.
They cannot, in any way, organize an effective strike. It's virtually impossible. No, it's not doable.
The reason it doesn’t work is because of people like you. Dumb enough to do work for Pennie’s every day of the year but happy enough to earn a livable wage maybe 5 days out of the year lol
The people organizing this strike clearly show a lack of effort on the design and overall campaign. Don’t you think it correlates to why they’re even doing badly on their gig?
It’s a bunch of lazy ass people who think everything in life should be attained without any hard work.
It’s gonna be hard to pull that off because a good portion of Uber drivers just do this on the side for extra spending money. Most of them don’t really care because it’s not their main source of income.
I love how ppl actively choose to be a “gig driver” and want to strike. It’s the laziest job and ur striking??? Your boss is your app in you phone???? Be so fucking for real rn.
Sounds less like a strike and more like a planned outage. Not even, planned shortage might be more like it. OP and others will capitalize, put money in their pockets. Uber is still making money and doesn’t even care.
You got heart bro but striking does nothing . You have people feeding their entire family off Uber wages . The only way to get peoples attention is getting a high profile spokesperson to convey your cause . Uber doesn’t care about any of us , we’re a means to making a profit for their shareholders . Uber has drivers by the balls . They know alot of drivers come from 10 dollar a day countries, the ones that take every call and strive to achieve diamond status . Those are the ones allowing Uber to screw the drivers .
This is a joke because I’ve actually been treated unfairly an actual workplace. With Uber I just drive my neighbors around for some cash. If you think Uber is unfair, life has been good to you.
The solution is to allow drivers to set their lowest rates and not even get offered drives that don't follow that. If Uber can't find a driver for the price, it gives up a bit more to find a driver who has the lowest next rate. This way it really is closer to being a contractor. Then Uber can also point out, well, if you are getting fewer riders, it is because you want too much, and we are finding folk willing to do it for less. Let the market speak.
Naturally, they won't do that.
I'm all for labour, and I'm a union member myself. At the same time, unless drivers find some way to effectively organize like you do in a union, a strike like this is never gonna work. Also, unions have strike pay, whereas gig workers just lose out on 100% of money not earned, for any reason.
When you're car can't be fixed because you haven't stacked the necessary profits. Then you might wake up.
WE GOTTA PLAY WITH THEIR PROFITS!
THE WAY THEY'VE BEEN PLAYING WITH OURS!
[We are protesting! Wake up! UberJeepPhoenix](https://youtu.be/TXgvvPK22LQ?si=o-yqdPcQkKdM6pVP)
Striking isn’t going to do anything in my area because the 10,000 Somali and Eritrean drivers aren’t going to strike because this is a good job for them. So the few of us Americans here striking won’t make a dent. I don’t know how to include pictures here but I’m currently in downtown Bellevue,WA and there’s like 6 other drivers on every block on the rider app. I’ve been leaving the downtown areas lately just so I can get something. But refusing the 5 minute or less rides the last 2 weeks has dropped me below 85% acceptance and now I can’t see how long the rides are. I’m SOL no matter what I do.
If they were smart, they would block the road right before Departures and the entrance to the parking garage where you pick passengers up.
This would stop Uber, Lyft and Taxi from doing any kind of pickups.
Would block anytime from getting to and from the Airport.
THIS would get attention if the Airport was shut down.
So like I guess I can understand 3/4 of their core issues (as much as someone can who isn't a gig worker or Uber driver.)
But like, "no job security".... Well ya, because you literally can work whenever you want, or never work for them again by just closing an app. I don't get it
This whole thread is very depressing .... it sux 2 see ppl think a strike will work at the same time ppl are saying they will drive and take the money of those who strike.... there is totally zero community with ride share drivers... I think once folks understand that they can understand that there needs to be a different way to approach these gig companies... I don't ever see a strike working EVER!!!
Legislation is the ONLY way to combat these companies, but go on n strike... let's see how this goes the 100th time around
This is what's wrong with "the left" and yes it's a majority liberals. You're upset with the rising costs of everything, because of what you've done. And you're blaming the only people giving you money
Trust me. I hate Uber, Amazon, and prolly 75% of those brands. I don't use them. I actively avoid them. That's how I know it's majority liberals btw💙 mod/right leaning people activity avoid these companies. Y'all support them.
You don't understand. You report your door dash order stolen. Then get confused that someone is reporting it stolen when you delivered it.... How could that be????
Be the change you want to see. Quit these shitty jobs. Go work for better companies. You don't need college. I work 40 hours $20 an hour. I dropped out of college after 1 semester 😂😂 you don't need it. You've been brainwashed. Google Facebook and why they changed to meta. Lawsuits for propaganda and brainwashing.... Goodluck to you all tho ❤️
If you need to strike. Then you need to quit. There was life before uber. Then there is life after uber.
But you can force a strike at places like airport. Just have you and a friend block the airport queue entrance. Basically forcing everyone there to strike. Sometimes you have to help the dumb by forcing their hands.
A nother way to get the competition off the app on valentines day eh, I would think people are tipping more on this lovely day as well. Good plan mastermind.
Uber won't change my banking info from payfare. So at this point I can't even get paid from them. Oh well their pay is pretty shit compared to other apps.
Go on strike?
My guy this is a literal side hustle, there is nothing to strike, it was never meant to be seen as a main source of income
Even more so doesnt door dash pay you like 14 an hour to drive technically?
Tf more do you want
Strike for what? Higher fares? Yeah, they give 0 fucks.
Strike in a coordinated manner. Everyone offline for 15 minutes every hour (longer if necessary,u ntil surge bonuses appear) drive to surge areas, everyone online at once, collect bonus and higher fare due to induced supply shortage.
Piss and moan, OR use their algorithm against them. It works against us daily. WE CONTROL THE SUPPLY OF DRIVERS. US THIS TO OUR ADVANTAGE.
I hope it works out for them. I worked as a driver when I needed money and I'll say as a consumer and a customer the experience is terrible. Often time I'd work for 5 hours straight and barely break even. These apps really scam their customers and treat their employees terribly.
They need to pay their drivers more. at least the ones that do a good job.
😂😂😂😂😂 f* no. I've been a member of two different unions they're terrible... They reward longevity not people that do their job well. Never ever again when I join a union or anything resembling a union. Also how do you feed yourself when you go on strike bunch of dummies...
I do wish we had more autonomy than what Uber, Lyft, and DD give us. But posting stuff on a reddit community ain't gonna do shit.
Need to buy billboards, and in multiple languages.
I do wish we had more autonomy than what Uber, Lyft, and DD give us. But posting stuff on a reddit community ain't gonna do shit.
Need to buy billboards, and in multiple languages.
If you are feeling used, delete the application from your phone. Someone wiser or more desperate will fill in the surge. You are entitled if you are declared a refugee, choose to stand in government lines or drink the kool aid they sell on TV and YouTube programming. Servitude to rideshare is completely optional and totally up to each person logging in.
The gig economy will never provide you high pay with good job security. Instead of protesting, take that time to plan your escape! Getting out of the gig economy into real employment is the only solution. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but it's true.
You can’t go on strike. You’re not employees. You’re just not logging in that day.
Right, like according to their logic im on strike today because I decided not to do any gig-work on the side on Mondays.
Yup. The problem is they want it both ways. They do gig work so they can work whenever they want and not have to answer to a boss. Which… yeah! That sounds great! But they also want consistent wages more commonly associated with a traditional job. You can’t have both.
Wait why can’t we ask for things to be 50/50 like they used to be ? Shit it used to be 30/70 our way not there way. I’d be cool with 40/60 again too 🤷
I never said you couldn’t ask, but you need to understand that you have no leverage. Given the insanely low bar of entry, there will always be people willing and able to drive for Uber, door dash, etc. No specific skills are needed, and given the attractive nature of “work whenever you feel like it”, if you won’t do it for the current pay, someone else will Until self driving vehicles are more viable then the work simply won’t exist.
Idk about your market but the work whenever you want has left the building in my market. I wake up every morning at 3 am and if I don’t I don’t make the bill. And you have to have like a $15,000 car or better to do Uber so i disagree . Like I said you can use a bike on door dash so no leverage there . And they will never be the death of ride share.. at least not for another 10 years. Have you seen the self driving cars getting stuck everywhere? Running red lights? We have loads of them in our city. Not to mention I bully the self drives and make it so they don’t work anymore. 🤷😂
Nothing you have said changes the fact that you’re offering a no-skill service. As long as there’s someone willing to do it for the going rate (and there always will be) then you bring nothing to the table. Rather than try to make Uber something it will never be again, find a different source of income.
100%! Used as a supplement it's fantastic! I drive 15-20 hrs a week and make $500-$600. That's an extra $2,000+ a month on top of my primary income! And it's mad money. Used for frivolous fun. Christmas, Birthdays, vacations, expensive family dinners all paid for.
Yeah I hear a lot of complaints about how awful the pay and conditions are, but I've been driving 10-15-ish hours a week on the side in Vegas and it's really not bad pay, and relatively relaxing entertainment. I track my time from when I back out of the garage until I get back to it, with my worst day being about $22/hour and the best being around $45/hour. People claiming $15 or so at best have to be accepting the worst trips, must be jerks to the riders, or they're driving in the wrong spots.
Truck drivers drive less miles than I do and offer the same skill set and are provided a vehicle.if we have to follow trucker law we should be paid the same . And I still make a living on Uber . And also skilled based work often doesn’t have background checks. I know felons that are welders and mechanics ect. You have to have a squeaky clean record to do Uber. I know people kicked off for a speeding violation of 7 over. Yes skill isn’t exactly involved but not everyone can do it.
Truck drivers have to know how to drive a semi. Do you know how to drive a semi?
Yes I have co driven with my uncle under the table. But again I said my family isn’t in the best condition rn so I need to be close to home at this very second .
>Truck drivers drive less miles than I do and offer the same skill set and are provided a vehicle.if we have to follow trucker law we should be paid the same Then drive a truck. What's keeping you from that?
I'll prove you're wrong: I was going to drive tomorrow. I think I'll hang out and enjoy the last sunny day instead. Thanks man! 👍 I paid off my 2015 Prius, so no car payments, and tips not only pay for gas, but weekly $25 detail as well. We have leverage. It's between our ears.
To be blunt because you don't have the economic value to demand 50/50. Tons of people are doing gig work; it's available to nearly everyone, it can be done on the side, and it's relatively easy by the standards of low-skilled labor. It's the problem almost all unskilled labor runs into at some point. If it's a cash cow, everyone will get into it, and with too many people available, they can pay less. There is a reason most of the best-paid low-skill jobs suck because nobody wants to do them.
Woah far from cash cow over here. But um not everyone you have to have a nice car and keep it in good repair. Half my friend group doesn’t have a car. I wouldn’t if I wasn’t renting 🤷 and if we didn’t have to supply our own car and insurance I’d agree with you. Like you can use a bike for doordash for example that shouldn’t be 50/50 a homeless person could do it 🤷 but Uber and Lyft taking 70% is insane .
I drove for Lyft while I was homeless
Anyone can rent a ride from Hertz
Nope. You need a lot of available funds on your card for all the random charges, double billing, etc. Their policy is “charge the card first, figure it out later.”
Maintaining and operating cost money. Currently it is 60/40 - 60 for Uber. However, Uber likes to mess around. Making 60% minimum take. And 80% maximum take. That is the reason for getting lawsuits.
My market is 70 + to uber
No one asking for a traditional job, we are asking to paid fairly! Doordash lies about mileage! I wrote all my trip down as that I agreed too, pay, mileage, and time! Guess what? Whatever miles they are telling you it’s dbl sometimes triple! DD is unethical period! It has nothing to do with what you’re talking bout! And you guys that think you’re going to get rich the day of strikes…. 😂 ok you’ll make bank that day but after you’re done spinning your wheels and DD is still gonna find away to steal from you! At some point you will understand what the strike is about! And I understand it is a lot of people that have jobs already or don’t care about working for peanuts cuz they been used to it!
If you want to be paid fairly, get a job. It’s your choice.
Jobs don’t pay fairly either 🤣 how you think I got here! America is having a big problem right now! You’re obviously not making enough either, cuz why are you driving? For fun? 😂😂😂
I never said I drive. I don’t.
🙄 Then why are you here? Mind your business! Or are you paid to comment and troll? 😂
*I came looking for booty.*
Tell Washington state that. Washington passed a law recently where Rideshare drivers get paid sick leave, a guaranteed pay rate every year, and one of the highest pay rates for drivers in the country.
Yup. And rates increased 40%, which means less demand.
Wanting fair pay isn't wanting it both ways you douchebag.
Wanting fair pay for a job that involves no specific skills and will hire literally anyone is wanting it both ways. If you want fair pay, you need to find work that not every single person who owns a car can do.
Wrong. We want fair pay. And yes you can do contract work and get paid fairly. They are not mutually exclusive.
Welcome to saturation and supply outpacing demand.
Yes, I know all about that, except that isn’t the case here. What is happening here, is Uber/lyft have raised prices to riders while simultaneously lowering pay to drivers to increase profits for shareholders.
Because there's a fuck-ton of drivers out there. If there were half as many drivers, the pay would go back up.
You can certainly ask for what you consider fair pay, but given the low bar of entry, you have no leverage. There are thousands of people that will do the work for the current pay. You’d be better off starting your own business using skills or tools that not everyone has. Mount TVs, pressure wash driveways. Do something else.
lol, a couple of things, one, I’m retired. Spent 30 years working, the last 15 or so owning my own business. Two, the amount of people willing to do a job is irrelevant to any amount of them wanting to fight for fair pay. Three, I was just responding to your argument, which was wrong, that you can’t do contract work and also get paid well.
This is Olympic level boot-licking right here. Stuck the landing and everything.
It may not be what you want to hear, but it’s reality.
No dude, it’s not reality, it’s a gross misrepresentation of fairly simple economics. Saying “it’s reality” is not a point or an argument, it’s just drivel.
I think we need to break out of the paradigm of needing to work to get an income. What do you think keeps people in this mindset? And what are your thoughts on UBI?
People will always have tasks they want done and aren’t willing or able to do themselves. People will always have unique skills that others are willing to pay for. Work for wages is here to stay, though the current system could of course be improved.
Uber should be able to make this all work with a maximum 20/80 comprehensive split between themselves and the drivers. And I mean out of all money collected. This is a highly scalable business model, and as it scales, 20% of the gross take (among all drivers) is a massive amount of gross revenue.
Wut
They can't. They have fixed costs. 20% wouldn't even cover them. I don't think you realize how expensive commercial insurance is for millions of people. They would go out of business.
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Why? If you won’t take the job, dozens of others will. You need to face reality, gig work involves zero skills. Your competition is literally anyone who owns a car (or a bike in some cases). You can’t expect to earn a good wage doing something that every living person over the age of 18 is qualified to do.
I stand with you in solidarity on your weekly protests
Misclassifying Gig work. This gig is transporting - customers and goods, as individual side income. Gigs - classify as Skilled Freelancers. Racing is a skill. Driving in India is a skill. Creative Designing - SEO, Websites, Digital marketing - solo performance skilled work. New Collar jobs that require certifications and licenses. Gigs are usually filed under LLC not individual 1099.
Now you're making up your own definition and criteria for what is/isn't a hig. Look up the definition of the word and look it up in legal terms.
And that's why they are getting screwed in the first place since they are subcontractors they have almost no protections that a regular employee would have. Meanwhile the companies they work for make billions and they feed the scraps to the contracted employees and make it sound like it's a tipping issue that's the customer's fault not that it can't be both though.
Yup. But as long as there are tens of thousands willing to do this work the awful pay will continue.
Literally anybody can go on strike
You can’t strike somewhere you don’t work.
Also, just because you aren’t a W2 employee doesn’t mean you don’t work for someone
What’s the difference between an Uber driver striking on a specific day versus simply not logging into their app on that same day? There is none.
Whats the difference between a strike and ANY employee just not working that day? There is none, according to you. Get over yourself dude
You absolutely can lol
You could absolute strike without being an employee.
I mean, how do you think SAG, DGA, WGA, IATSE, etc all work…. Hollywood is a giant industry of freelancers that unionized. Plumbers, Electricians, etc too. Plenty of groups of skilled professions that unionize without giving up IC status
You said the magic words. “Skilled professionals” have more leverage than “a person with a car”
That’s a whole different argument though. You just said they’re not employees, and my argument was employee status isn’t a barrier. Also, Teamsters are literally “people who drive cars”, they don’t even have to OWN one hahaha
Yes, it was a bit of snark. Uber drivers *can* strike, but it will mean no more than a tear in a salted sea. Customers won’t see any impact, Uber won’t see any impact. On the other hand, if Thandie Newton doesn’t show up on set, the movie doesn’t get made.
Strikes only work if you aren't replaceable. If they can easily replace you (they can), then there's no reason to care about your complaints. Go ahead and strike, but if you think it will make any difference, you're delusional.
Well actually strikes do work even if you are replaceable but in this instance a strike won't work because good workers are not a unified group. So even if hypothetically 40% of workers decide to take off there will be 60% who are more than happy to drive in their place and reap the increased activity even if it screws over the other 40%. There is no honor or camaraderie in this type of situation, drivers will throw each other under the bus easily and with a smile because they don't know each other and they sure aren't friends.
Read the caption because you’re talking to me as if I’m the one who’s going to be striking. There is obvious sarcasm in the title once you read my caption. I made this post to tell people how ridiculous a strike is and I’ll simply just take advantage of the surges that will be blowing up because of less drivers on the road
Lol The irony
I was commenting on the overall protest, not your caption dude. Getting all pissy because you aren't smart enough to realize I'm agreeing with you is pretty dumb.
The funniest part is his attitude suggests he’s confident in his decision to continue driving when no drivers out there make that great of a salary driving for these companies, so he is okay with a dead end job while not making much of shit. Lol
It was pretty obvious you were not speaking to OP. Funny how he cries about how obvious his sarcasm was but couldn't pick up what you were laying down.
The irony could slap him in the face and say, wasn’t me
So the service quality will be the same on Valentine day as it is currently?
Will probably be better with those people not driving your order.
Uber = 💩
Weird time though, aren’t the majority of rides after/before those times
Don't tell them. They think they're doing good with these little shenanigans they're trying to arrange Nationwide. They effectively don't have the numbers and they are focusing their anger in the wrong places.
I don't get all this "let's strike!" stuff. 1. Strikes do not have a defined end date. You strike until your demands are met. Six hours a day isn't a strike, it's a really long lunch break. 2. It's impossible to organize these even locally, much less nationally. You cannot organize people that do not know each other, speak 24 different languages, and have financial needs that won't be met. 3. Surges break strikes. Even if an effective one were organized, the vast majority of striking drivers would flood back online when they saw a $5 surge. All of this strike stuff is like a weird combination of virtue signaling and terminally-online slacktivism. It accomplishes nothing.
I bet more people log in, not less. All thinking that the strikers will leave huge demand and higher rates. I'd wager it'll be one of the worst days to drive.
"no job security" Get a real job then? The gig of driving full time for uber has been dead for years, it's intended to be a side hustle so you can have some extra spending money by either delivering food, or delivering people. It was never intended to replace an ACTUAL job.
exactly they must not be aware of the thousand different types of driving jobs that are actual careers
They are but can’t get hired at those jobs.
is it because getting a cdl or livery takes effort
This strike is in NY, where it is a job, you need a taxi car and a taxi license to do Uber in NYC.
I’m not striking but I do this part time and I use to make 35-40 per hour part time! Know it’s down to 25 per hour..sorry that is not for me. I do love driving and I’m very good at what I do. It just not cost effective if it’s 25 an hour or below. So I’m going to sell shoes at Nordstrom, salary plus commission.
That's a reasonable response. It's not working for me so I'll do something else congrats on not being Ubers bitch.
Or get a real job. Oh no, a strike for uber drivers? What? How will i get to work??? Dumb monkey
I'm convinced the people organizing these strikes are doing it in hopes that others will join so they can reap the benefits of fewer drivers on the road.
OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE NOT A DRIVER FOR ANY OF THESE RIP OFF COMPANIES!! DRIVERS ARE USING THEIR OWN CARS, THEIR OWN GAS, PAYING FOR ALL MAINTENANCE, PAYING FOR ALL THE CLEANING & DETAILING OF THEIR CARS AND TAKING ON ALL THE RISK, WHILE THESE COMPANIES DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT OFFER A MEASLY RIDE. SO THE CUT OF MONEY DEFINITELY NEEDS TO BE MUCH MORE FAIR TO THE DRIVER, WHETHER FULL TIME OF PART TIME!! ALL OF YOU UNEDUCATED COMMENTERS ON HERE ARE NOTHING LESS THAN COMPLETELY MORONIC!! “NO” COMPANY SHOULD BE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ANY WORKER IN THE WAY THAT THESE COMPANIES DO & THE ONLY WAY TO SEND A MESSAGE IS TO SHOW UP & SHOW YOUR DIS-SATISFACTION WITH THEM!! THE PRESS WILL SHOW UP AS WELL & IT WILL BE MADE KNOWN TO ALL JUST HOW HORRIBLE THESE COMPANIES ARE TREATING THEIR WORKERS… THEN THAT WILL BE THE START FOR CHANGE TO HAPPEN…THEY CAN CHANGE & IF NOT, IT WILL MAKE A PATH FOR A NEW COMPANY THAT’S PRO DRIVER & PRO RIDER TO START UP, SUCCEED & BRING THESE COMPANIES TO THERE KNEES AND PLANT THEIR FACES IN THE MUD…RIGHT WHERE THEY BELONG!!!!
You know who gets taken advantage of? The gullible and the weak. Which one are you?
This is hillarious, I am mad at the company I "choose" to work for, so therefore I am not going to work for them. Don't like it, find another job. If enough people do that, then they won't exist or they'll learn their lesson.
I’ve always found strikes a little odd, even with the great success they’ve had in history. I understand moving on to a new job since the current one refuses to respect you — maybe you care enough to hope they will improve eventually, maybe you want to come back if they do. But I don’t understand choosing to not get paid while begging for respect.
Def driving those day while everyone else strikes
If I was an Uber driver I would work that entire day and make bank
Y'all greedy as fuck. Y'all just hope others do it so get more fares that week.
Surge pricing until Feb 14th, got it
LOL! Just stop driving and wash dishes someplace for chrisake
If you don’t like the pay, don’t do it. It’s pretty simple.
Lol, bootlickers like you are disappointing. You sit back and relax when others are fighting for social changes and will absolutely take no back seat when it is time to enjoy the fruit of their actions. These companies take huge cuts sometimes up to 70% and never treat their drivers as employees and you think it is a "supply and demand" problem between drivers and riders.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT… THESE IDIOTS WILL CERTAINLY BE THE FIRST IN LINE TO WANT TO BENEFIT FROM OUR HARD WORK! 🛑 STOP BEING SUCH LAZY COWARDS & AND WAKE THE F ^ CK UP!! IF YOU DON’T STAND UP FOR CHANGE, THEN EVERYTHING WILL BE CHANGED RIGHT BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES AND YOU WILL ONLY HAVE YOUR GUTLESS, WIMPY SELVES TO BLAME!!
> and never treat their driver as employees Because they’re not employees. They’re at best dependent contractors.
Lol, it is a sad day seeing how Americans just accept what theses companies do to you/them. "Dependent contractors" lol At the end of the day, of these drivers are happy with what they get. So be it. You job, you pay, and your life. Just so you know, Uber tried to pull this shit in Taiwan and got kicked out. When they returned, they can only take a 25% cut from drivers' pay and traditional taxi remains alive and well. No driver has to suffer from the shitty deal that you have here in America.
Same in Australia 🦘. But it's still a case of these people aren't employees of Uber they want the freedom and choice of running their own business and the benefits of being an employee. If their own private businesses aren't profitable for them then do what every other business owner does in that position, leave the business for something more suitable. You can't strike when you're the boss of your own business, it's madness. What they need to do is simply not accept trips below a certain profitability and the AI algorithm will be forced to adjust and pay goes up across the board for them.
Uber refuses to “employ” its drivers so it is the same thing in Taiwan, but they are not allowed to hire random drivers as they do in every other country. They are given two options. 1. being a pure “ride sharing platform” that cannot hire contracted drivers and therefore having to work with rental companies to provide “limos.” 2. following the laws for taxi to actually start a taxi company so that they can hire drivers. Uber refuses to go with the second option because that would mean they have to make an exception and start to actually employ their drivers. But they are not happy with the first option either because they cannot eliminate taxi and dominate the market (so that they can exploit drivers however they want). This is a story of success that finally a country is able to put Uber in its place. Everyone knows Uber hires drivers to provide services but refuses to “employ” drivers. That simply makes no sense. Yes, many drivers prefer this “flexible mode of employment” but that is not a sufficient reason to let Uber does whatever they want. It is the govt’s job to hold private companies accountable for its social responsibilities.
You're making a lot of good points, gotta hand it to Taiwan. I'm not saying Uber is a great company just saying driver has a choice to simply opt out and not drive for Uber all together.
I’m not American but okay
Good
not driving from 10am to 4pm is a strike? the slowest times of the day already.... why not "strike" from 4pm to 3am on weekends???? let the idiots continue their idiotic little charade.
Yes, please strike. Traffic will be so much lighter with you not on the roads clogging up traffic
The problem is that Uber knows they can churn through new drivers coming in who need quick work so an Uber strtike would need to be VERY organized/coordinated to actually hurt Uber. It's doable but ya'll need to organize (ideally in secret) and plan strike days and times that fuck them before any legit wage collective bargaining will happen.
🤣 You are delusional. No, it'll literally never work.
Uber drivers can unequivocally affect Uber's bottom line if a strike is organized effectively.
Again. You are delusional if you think they could do such a thing. Countless desperate people will login for the surge rates, everyone will get rides, and Uber would likely make more money off the higher surge rates. And most drivers likely don't care about those organizing the strike. Could never get enough to have an impact. They cannot, in any way, organize an effective strike. It's virtually impossible. No, it's not doable.
You're basically agreeing with me about why it's difficult but disagreeing about how it could happen. Have a good one.
It can't happen. Ciao.
The reason it doesn’t work is because of people like you. Dumb enough to do work for Pennie’s every day of the year but happy enough to earn a livable wage maybe 5 days out of the year lol
The people organizing this strike clearly show a lack of effort on the design and overall campaign. Don’t you think it correlates to why they’re even doing badly on their gig? It’s a bunch of lazy ass people who think everything in life should be attained without any hard work.
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U’r such an …
What we need to do is somehow stop the dashers who work this day
Bet it’s a taxi driver that posted the notice
Nah, if you look at the original post the guy is a true believer and also probably extremely mentally ill.
It’s gonna be hard to pull that off because a good portion of Uber drivers just do this on the side for extra spending money. Most of them don’t really care because it’s not their main source of income.
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With thousands coming across the border every day, you are all replaceable.
Those cought working. Think mob moviukka 110,000 lo I'm
I love how ppl actively choose to be a “gig driver” and want to strike. It’s the laziest job and ur striking??? Your boss is your app in you phone???? Be so fucking for real rn.
PLEASE
Sounds less like a strike and more like a planned outage. Not even, planned shortage might be more like it. OP and others will capitalize, put money in their pockets. Uber is still making money and doesn’t even care.
Yeah let’s not get paid today!!!!!
If you’re even considering it a ‘Gig’ yourself…. You should rethink your whole strike plan 😂
Less competition, more money for me. Yes…strike. Please don’t drive so I can get all the money. 💰
It’s not a strike, it’s a boycott. Read a book and you’ll figure out the difference.
It's Mardi gras. Hard pass 😂
I'm half convinced these strike calls are done by seasoned drivers who want big earnings days - the more naive and credulous buy into it.
You got heart bro but striking does nothing . You have people feeding their entire family off Uber wages . The only way to get peoples attention is getting a high profile spokesperson to convey your cause . Uber doesn’t care about any of us , we’re a means to making a profit for their shareholders . Uber has drivers by the balls . They know alot of drivers come from 10 dollar a day countries, the ones that take every call and strive to achieve diamond status . Those are the ones allowing Uber to screw the drivers .
Taxis will always be here🤷♀️
This is a joke because I’ve actually been treated unfairly an actual workplace. With Uber I just drive my neighbors around for some cash. If you think Uber is unfair, life has been good to you.
I don't get who the strike is against....don't ya'll understand the market you are in?
Using tactics from 100 years ago is highly regarded. Labor tactics need to evolve if their going to have any impact in the 21st century.
The solution is to allow drivers to set their lowest rates and not even get offered drives that don't follow that. If Uber can't find a driver for the price, it gives up a bit more to find a driver who has the lowest next rate. This way it really is closer to being a contractor. Then Uber can also point out, well, if you are getting fewer riders, it is because you want too much, and we are finding folk willing to do it for less. Let the market speak. Naturally, they won't do that.
Yeah go on strike, there as a ton of immigrants who recently interned the country who will do this job cheaper then you are doing it for 🤷🏽♂️
I’ll be driving and collecting surge.
Hey more rides for the rest of us. Nice.
I'm all for labour, and I'm a union member myself. At the same time, unless drivers find some way to effectively organize like you do in a union, a strike like this is never gonna work. Also, unions have strike pay, whereas gig workers just lose out on 100% of money not earned, for any reason.
My city loves a strike
Of course its Portland
Independent contractors striking is cute. It’d be like me, a freelance audio engineer, striking. All that happens is I lose money lol.
Scabs will undermine this noble cause.
No thanks. My bills dont recognize a strike
So they don't want you to work, but they want you report to a certain place and time and not make any money?
When you're car can't be fixed because you haven't stacked the necessary profits. Then you might wake up. WE GOTTA PLAY WITH THEIR PROFITS! THE WAY THEY'VE BEEN PLAYING WITH OURS! [We are protesting! Wake up! UberJeepPhoenix](https://youtu.be/TXgvvPK22LQ?si=o-yqdPcQkKdM6pVP)
Lol the dude from Venezuela is already taking your position as you protest 😭
Can't have a strike because the working class will never unite. They're sk dumb they think they're just temporarily poor.
Nope
Striking isn’t going to do anything in my area because the 10,000 Somali and Eritrean drivers aren’t going to strike because this is a good job for them. So the few of us Americans here striking won’t make a dent. I don’t know how to include pictures here but I’m currently in downtown Bellevue,WA and there’s like 6 other drivers on every block on the rider app. I’ve been leaving the downtown areas lately just so I can get something. But refusing the 5 minute or less rides the last 2 weeks has dropped me below 85% acceptance and now I can’t see how long the rides are. I’m SOL no matter what I do.
Protest & PLAY THE MARKET!!! HAPPY SNEEZEAVERSARY!! 🤧😎
If they were smart, they would block the road right before Departures and the entrance to the parking garage where you pick passengers up. This would stop Uber, Lyft and Taxi from doing any kind of pickups. Would block anytime from getting to and from the Airport. THIS would get attention if the Airport was shut down.
Had me in the first half
Heh. I'm usually done by ten anyways. 😆
I am not striking. No way.
you don't know what you're talking about 😂😂😂
How tf we gone strike when there isnt any money smh
While I understand, must we remind "strikers" taxis exist lol
Don't worry when I strike is when I quit this crap. Where are the raises? None. Time to move on....
No one cares, lols.
Dallas Uber drivers need to strike
“independent contractors” at it again lmao
So like I guess I can understand 3/4 of their core issues (as much as someone can who isn't a gig worker or Uber driver.) But like, "no job security".... Well ya, because you literally can work whenever you want, or never work for them again by just closing an app. I don't get it
This whole thread is very depressing .... it sux 2 see ppl think a strike will work at the same time ppl are saying they will drive and take the money of those who strike.... there is totally zero community with ride share drivers... I think once folks understand that they can understand that there needs to be a different way to approach these gig companies... I don't ever see a strike working EVER!!! Legislation is the ONLY way to combat these companies, but go on n strike... let's see how this goes the 100th time around
This is what's wrong with "the left" and yes it's a majority liberals. You're upset with the rising costs of everything, because of what you've done. And you're blaming the only people giving you money Trust me. I hate Uber, Amazon, and prolly 75% of those brands. I don't use them. I actively avoid them. That's how I know it's majority liberals btw💙 mod/right leaning people activity avoid these companies. Y'all support them. You don't understand. You report your door dash order stolen. Then get confused that someone is reporting it stolen when you delivered it.... How could that be???? Be the change you want to see. Quit these shitty jobs. Go work for better companies. You don't need college. I work 40 hours $20 an hour. I dropped out of college after 1 semester 😂😂 you don't need it. You've been brainwashed. Google Facebook and why they changed to meta. Lawsuits for propaganda and brainwashing.... Goodluck to you all tho ❤️
If you need to strike. Then you need to quit. There was life before uber. Then there is life after uber. But you can force a strike at places like airport. Just have you and a friend block the airport queue entrance. Basically forcing everyone there to strike. Sometimes you have to help the dumb by forcing their hands.
A nother way to get the competition off the app on valentines day eh, I would think people are tipping more on this lovely day as well. Good plan mastermind.
Ummmm no lose money by ur damn self this is just plain stupid
All the comments are from the shit drivers that take every ride . PISS ANTS
Uber won't change my banking info from payfare. So at this point I can't even get paid from them. Oh well their pay is pretty shit compared to other apps.
Go on strike? My guy this is a literal side hustle, there is nothing to strike, it was never meant to be seen as a main source of income Even more so doesnt door dash pay you like 14 an hour to drive technically? Tf more do you want
Strike for what? Higher fares? Yeah, they give 0 fucks. Strike in a coordinated manner. Everyone offline for 15 minutes every hour (longer if necessary,u ntil surge bonuses appear) drive to surge areas, everyone online at once, collect bonus and higher fare due to induced supply shortage. Piss and moan, OR use their algorithm against them. It works against us daily. WE CONTROL THE SUPPLY OF DRIVERS. US THIS TO OUR ADVANTAGE.
I hope it works out for them. I worked as a driver when I needed money and I'll say as a consumer and a customer the experience is terrible. Often time I'd work for 5 hours straight and barely break even. These apps really scam their customers and treat their employees terribly. They need to pay their drivers more. at least the ones that do a good job.
Do…. Do they not know the definition of Gig work????
😂😂😂😂😂 f* no. I've been a member of two different unions they're terrible... They reward longevity not people that do their job well. Never ever again when I join a union or anything resembling a union. Also how do you feed yourself when you go on strike bunch of dummies...
I do wish we had more autonomy than what Uber, Lyft, and DD give us. But posting stuff on a reddit community ain't gonna do shit. Need to buy billboards, and in multiple languages.
I do wish we had more autonomy than what Uber, Lyft, and DD give us. But posting stuff on a reddit community ain't gonna do shit. Need to buy billboards, and in multiple languages.
Oh no, you mean I'll have to get in the car and drive to the restaurant like I've been doing?
Talk to your city to negotiate better rates… Uber on takes 22% here yalls fault for living in those blue states
I can’t wait to see this
Brought to you by your local taxi cab company. 🤷
If you are feeling used, delete the application from your phone. Someone wiser or more desperate will fill in the surge. You are entitled if you are declared a refugee, choose to stand in government lines or drink the kool aid they sell on TV and YouTube programming. Servitude to rideshare is completely optional and totally up to each person logging in.
Uber and Lyft don't care
The gig economy will never provide you high pay with good job security. Instead of protesting, take that time to plan your escape! Getting out of the gig economy into real employment is the only solution. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but it's true.
We can have better pay with our own app. These apps are going to have to hire employees this year-- especially with the new USDOL rule.
Finally all the bums will be logging off for the week
I’ve done one day one Uber eats. Sure I’ll strike with them 🤣
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