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Thousands of US Uber and Lyft drivers plan Valentine's Day strikes
(www.seattletimes.com)
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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
So they should definitely strike.
They should just quit and find other work.
Striking in a dead industry is pointless and a complete waste of time and effort, not to mention actively detrimental to those wasting their time doing this instead of specializing in a different career.
Yeah, striking as contractors isn't meaningful. I fully support strikes btw and am far left, but it just doesn't work for contract work. It only works when a legitimate union is formed. And the first step to achieving that is the refusal of contract work.
Yep. It's seriously disconcerting the number of people who fundamentally don't understand basic concepts of employment
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.