Wow, he negotiated a contract with Uber only. Lyft drivers fucked. Drivers will probably flee to Uber for higher guarantees. Will Lyft compete to retain their talent or continue to pay the minimum? Or will they drop out of the city entirely and leave Uber as the de facto monopoly in drive sharing?
Mayor pretty much gave a middle finger to its people with the veto. I wonder how much the mayor was wined and dined to ignore 8 months of work by the city and consultants
LMFAO, it's a verbal contract bro, they aren't required to do anything. They won't do anything. This was just purely fucking over the people.
Verbals binding. Hope there's audio of that conversation.
And any gumption to hold them to their word. Both of them.
Sweet summer child...
No, they're right. Verbal contracts are binding in a court of law. Now, Uber having a fuckton of money to make it impossible to enforce is a different thing altogether.
Someone should show the mayor that you can't treat large portions of your constituents like they're trash.
But they can. gestures broadly to everything
I used to ride share drive part time. I don't think there is anyone who does strictly Uber or strictly Lyft. You do both to get more money.
Plenty of people in the UK are strictly Uber as it works like a normal cab firm here, ride sharing isn't really a thing.
In Denmark Uber was told they can't operate, you need a license to drive a taxi so the amount of taxis match with the amount of people - if there are to many taxis everyone can't make a living wage.
Uber could register as a normal taxi company, but they were not interested in that.
Funny thing for the short period they were operating most the drivers didn't register to pay taxes of the income, but tax department just asked Uber for a list of drivers and their income.
if there are to many taxis everyone can’t make a living wage
Why aren't there similar restrictions to the amount of workers in various sectors? Doesn't having too many people doing IT support dilute IT support worker wages? Apply this logic to ANY individual contributor role.
The actual end result of limited taxi licenses is that the licenses get monopolized by bigger businesses who do not provide "living" wages to their employees rather than protecting individual taxi drivers. The owner makes a TON of money and the taxi drivers just do ok.
Try and find some salary data for say NYC medallion taxi drivers and compare that to the surrounding area cost of living. Taxi drivers who work 40 hours usually make below what i'd consider living wage for the area.
Bad journalism that doesn't explain the current state of things for the drivers. Not everyone is up on the sanctioned exploitation of drivers.
What are they getting now and how does this improve things?
Don't worry! The reader can find that in a different article.
Sourcing this critical information is an exercise left to the reader
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