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Wait, strike? First off...IANAUD. If you become an Uber Driver are you under any sort of contract? Are you now an employee (W-2) of Uber or free agent contra

Wait, strike? First off...IANAUD. If you become an Uber Driver are you under any sort of contract? Are you now an employee (W-2) of Uber or free agent contractor (1099). If drivers think they can get better fares elsewhere... go nuts and do it. Yay economics! I feel like I am missing something here.

viscanti 12y ago
This. Although I don't understand the argument from the driver's side. They're upset about sometimes getting trips from uberx (and apparently making more doing so), so they're going to a place that pays less per trip and per hour? Something doesn't add up there. If there was a factual claim here, I have to believe that they'd be sharing their numbers. It would be trivial for them to show a decrease in earnings (they can easily calculate gas and wear-and-tear) in the before-and-after earnings. The fact that that isn't happening makes me believe this is similar to the protests last year in SF. From the reports back then, it ended up being mostly drivers who had been banned from the uber platform who were trying to be reinstated (although that's not what they claimed).
- bitJericho 12y ago
  May I ask what you make per hour?
- vertex-four 12y ago
  > They're upset about sometimes getting trips from uberx (and apparently making more doing so), so they're going to a place that pays less per trip and per hour? They're trying to convince Uber to stop doing what they don't want (according to them, they do not make more by accepting UberX fares, no matter what the company says) by denying them labour. In the meantime, they're doing work elsewhere, although are hoping not to permanently work there; they're hoping that Uber will cave in. Denial of labour ("striking") is a tried-and-tested approach to persuading companies to do what the labourers want. They can't operate without labour, so labourers organise to deny them that until they get better working conditions/better pay/etc. Assuming enough labourers agree to deny labour, this will work unless (a) what the labourers want, the company literally cannot provide without going bust, or (b) there are enough people looking for jobs and willing to put up with the bad terms that the company can hire them to replace the striking labourers. This is a relatively simple idea, and has been a thing since the Industrial Revolution; I'm not really sure what you're not getting.
avalaunch 12y ago
What is IANAUD? I tried googling but nothing came up.
- Spoom 12y ago
  IANAwhatever usually means "I Am Not A whatever", in this case, "I am not an Uber driver", I assume.
  - avalaunch 12y ago
    Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
- deleted 12y ago
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viscanti 12y ago

This. Although I don't understand the argument from the driver's side. They're upset about sometimes getting trips from uberx (and apparently making more doing so), so they're going to a place that pays less per trip and per hour? Something doesn't add up there. If there was a factual claim here, I have to believe that they'd be sharing their numbers. It would be trivial for them to show a decrease in earnings (they can easily calculate gas and wear-and-tear) in the before-and-after earnings. The fact that that isn't happening makes me believe this is similar to the protests last year in SF. From the reports back then, it ended up being mostly drivers who had been banned from the uber platform who were trying to be reinstated (although that's not what they claimed).

bitJericho 12y ago
May I ask what you make per hour?
vertex-four 12y ago
> They're upset about sometimes getting trips from uberx (and apparently making more doing so), so they're going to a place that pays less per trip and per hour? They're trying to convince Uber to stop doing what they don't want (according to them, they do not make more by accepting UberX fares, no matter what the company says) by denying them labour. In the meantime, they're doing work elsewhere, although are hoping not to permanently work there; they're hoping that Uber will cave in. Denial of labour ("striking") is a tried-and-tested approach to persuading companies to do what the labourers want. They can't operate without labour, so labourers organise to deny them that until they get better working conditions/better pay/etc. Assuming enough labourers agree to deny labour, this will work unless (a) what the labourers want, the company literally cannot provide without going bust, or (b) there are enough people looking for jobs and willing to put up with the bad terms that the company can hire them to replace the striking labourers. This is a relatively simple idea, and has been a thing since the Industrial Revolution; I'm not really sure what you're not getting.

avalaunch 12y ago

What is IANAUD? I tried googling but nothing came up.

Spoom 12y ago
IANAwhatever usually means "I Am Not A whatever", in this case, "I am not an Uber driver", I assume.
- avalaunch 12y ago
  Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
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