Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
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Re: Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
#2> As independent contractors who can’t unionize
Anyone can unionise (well apart from military, law enforcement, prison guards, etc).
Even unemployed people can join unions. Whether your employer chooses to have anything to do with your union is another matter of course.
Re: Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
#3> As independent contractors who can’t unionize Anyone can unionise (well apart from military, law enforcement, prison guards, etc). Even unemployed people can join unions. Whether your employer chooses to have anything to do with your union is another matter of course.
What? I can’t understand why you’d be so confidently wrong about a complex legal subject. https://whoismyemployee.com/2017/08/14/can-independent-contr...
Re: Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
#4> As independent contractors who can’t unionize Anyone can unionise (well apart from military, law enforcement, prison guards, etc). Even unemployed people can join unions. Whether your employer chooses to have anything to do with your union is another matter of course.
What? I can’t understand why you’d be so confidently wrong about a complex legal subject. https://whoismyemployee.com/2017/08/14/can-independent-contr...
As your link says 'antitrust law generally forbids businesses from banding together and collectively fixing prices and other conditions', but that's just one thing a union might want to do, and it doesn't stop individuals joining unions. As I said, you can literally not work for anyone at all and join a union.
This is what the unions will advise you
> Even though you are not considered an “employee” under federal labor law, you may still join a union.
https://cwa-union.org/about/rights-on-job/legal-toolkit/my-e...
Re: Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
#5These people are complaining that they’re not being paid enough.
Isn’t the proper solution to find another job? If more people stopped driving for ridesharing companies the prices would rise to attract them back. I don’t see why they are complaining when unemployment is at an all time low and they can find a job easily elsewhere. It sounds stupid.
Re: Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
#6> As independent contractors who can’t unionize Anyone can unionise (well apart from military, law enforcement, prison guards, etc). Even unemployed people can join unions. Whether your employer chooses to have anything to do with your union is another matter of course.
Uh, law enforcement unions are huge and very influential
Re: Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
#7These people are complaining that they’re not being paid enough. Isn’t the proper solution to find another job? If more people stopped driving for ridesharing companies the prices would rise to attract them back. I don’t see why they are complaining when unemployment is at an all time low and they can find a job easily elsewhere. It sounds stupid.
A lot of people turn to jobs like Uber because they can't easily find a job. There are many people who desperately try for weeks or months to find employment. Companies like Uber love to prey on such people.
Re: Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
#8> As independent contractors who can’t unionize Anyone can unionise (well apart from military, law enforcement, prison guards, etc). Even unemployed people can join unions. Whether your employer chooses to have anything to do with your union is another matter of course.
Uh, law enforcement unions are huge and very influential
Ah must be different to the UK then.
Re: Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
#9If I were Uber, or any ridesharing service, I'd be optimizing to pay driver's as much as possible. But that's just me.
Re: Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
#10These people are complaining that they’re not being paid enough. Isn’t the proper solution to find another job? If more people stopped driving for ridesharing companies the prices would rise to attract them back. I don’t see why they are complaining when unemployment is at an all time low and they can find a job easily elsewhere. It sounds stupid.
> Isn’t the proper solution to find another job? If more people stopped driving for ridesharing companies the prices would rise to attract them back.
Instead of assuming stupidity on one party's end, why not consider that there is a rational explanation for people's behavior?
A very rational explanation is that for many people, driving for Uber beats not being able to pay bills, going hungry or being homeless.