Post by The Dark Knight on Oct 22, 2024 9:39:23 GMT
Taxi union, Lander demand end to Uber, Lyft driver 'lockouts'
Cost to gig workers estimated at $1 billion a year
The city’s taxi union and City Comptroller Brad Lander are demanding that Uber and Lyft permanently stop kicking drivers off their apps, a practice they say deliberately and unjustly diminishes driver income even as the rideshare companies increase their profits.
Lander and the Taxi Workers Alliance say that Uber and Lyft are circumventing the city’s minimum driver pay law by inflating the time the drivers have passengers — the so-called “utilization rate” by which the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission calculates what drivers should be paid.
thechiefleader.com/stories/taxi-union-lander-demand-end-to-uber-lyft-driver-lockouts,53283?
Cost to gig workers estimated at $1 billion a year
The city’s taxi union and City Comptroller Brad Lander are demanding that Uber and Lyft permanently stop kicking drivers off their apps, a practice they say deliberately and unjustly diminishes driver income even as the rideshare companies increase their profits.
Lander and the Taxi Workers Alliance say that Uber and Lyft are circumventing the city’s minimum driver pay law by inflating the time the drivers have passengers — the so-called “utilization rate” by which the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission calculates what drivers should be paid.
thechiefleader.com/stories/taxi-union-lander-demand-end-to-uber-lyft-driver-lockouts,53283?