The drivers Uber and Lyft announced a strike on 8 may, out of the applications at 7 a.m.

New York workers ‘ Alliance taxi (NYTWA), said that Uber drivers and Lyft plan to exit the application for two hours on may 8 to protest against the «increase of his wages», two days before the release of the Uber IPO. Bhairavi Desai, NYTWA Executive Director, said that the protest (will rally and probably rally) needs to send a message to corporate leaders who want to win billions of dollars since the beginning of the placement shares on the exchanges.

«Investors on wall street say Uber and Lyft to reduce the incomes of drivers to cut bonuses and to quickly jump to the driver… With the IPO, the corporate owners of Uber are going to make billions, and all this at a time, as the drivers remain in poverty and become bankrupt. That’s why members of NYTWA join international strike, to resist greed Uber,» reads the statement of the Union of drivers.

The drivers Uber and Lyft announced a strike on 8 may, out of the applications at 7 a.m.flickr.com/Andreas Komodromos/CC

Uber plans to hold an IPO on Thursday, may 9, and begin trading on the new York stock exchange the next day. According to Reuters, the company hopes that it will appreciate in the range of 80.5 to 91.5 billion. In the framework of the IPO of the company Uber and Lyft defend their position that the drivers were not considered by their employees, and are processed as independent contractors. In this case, customers are not required to pay drivers a fixed salary, and only pay for only the hours of actual work. Then stated, for example, new York raising the minimum wage for taxi drivers can be compensated in various ways, and they know the drivers, the impending protest.

According to The Verge , «in payment of a so-called utilization rate , which takes into account the percentage of time that the driver spends with the passengers in their vehicles, compared to the time spent in standby mode and the standby tariff». The drivers argue, for example, that operators do not benefit from the application, if they start to take a lot of travel, keeping in a minimum of trips.

The drivers will come from applications at 7 a.m. on may 8. Such actions are prepared in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. «I’m fighting for my child’s future. I have a 5-year old son, and I’m going for Uber to support it. But it gets harder and harder,» says the driver Lama at AM NY . «Leaders Uber enriched our work, they have to treat us with respect. We try to send the message that drivers will continue to fight.»

 

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