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One major barrier is that you don’t have to meet any of your coworkers unless you explicitly seek them out, and your employer certainly isn’t going to help you.
by opportune 8y ago
One major barrier is that you don’t have to meet any of your coworkers unless you explicitly seek them out, and your employer certainly isn’t going to help you. So yes I would say that labor organizing across a gig platform is considerably harder than for factories across geographic regions. The social fabric is a lot harder to construct
- sleepychu 8y agoCan anyone who drives for Uber/Lyft/Grab chime in here? Do you know your peers?
- jsjohnst 8y agoMany drivers (in NYC anyway) are members of online discussion forums, so they are connecting already. I read many a multi-hundred page threads of drivers ranting and deciding to strike several years ago over Uber forcing black cars to accept UberX rides. Them joining together is a major reason Uber backtracked that policy per Uber’s public statement about it.
- worldsayshi 8y agoI guess that the missing piece here would be better ways to organise strike funds and pay. Regarding the social aspect there's mostly a way if there's will.