The story of Nnamdi Uwazie, a Nigerian immigrant cab driver in Chicago, brings home a comparison rolling around in my head for a long time. It’s 4 p.m. and Nnamdi Uwazie has taken in only $122, which means he has another five hours to drive...
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Great news out of Seattle: A judge in Washington State has rejected Uber’s attempt to overturn a Seattle ordinance that gives its drivers the right to unionize, potentially opening the.
Miya Tokumitsu has an excellent essay placing the extreme sexism of the Uber workplace culture in the broader context of the malignancy at the heart of so much white collar.
Oh Uber. Whenever it comes up in the news, you know it's going to be because they are doing something awful again. Late last month, Uber sued the city of Seattle, challenging the city’s authority to implement a landmark law allowing drivers in the gig...
Sarah Jaffe notes that the #DeleteUber campaign is a good lesson to a new generation of the absolute evil of scabbing. These days (and in this economy), we’re more likely.
I've railed against Uber for a long time. As a company that seeks to profit off of not providing its employees any protection, basically exploiting independent contractor law to place.
David Bensman has a really great piece on how the Teamsters are taking the lead on organizing Uber drivers in Seattle and how doing so has relied on the kind of community effort necessary for organizing in the modern day. It's taken building not only...
The more one knows about Uber, the more shocking its corporate culture and behavior becomes. It needs more drivers with decent cars. So what is its solution? Offer drivers sub-prime.
Since we've been talking about SEIU's now failed deal with Airbnb, this is also very interesting: Uber announced an agreement on Tuesday with a prominent union.
Uber and Lyft run their whole model on assuming their "employees" are independent contractors, meaning that the companies get to rake in the profit without assuming most of the risks and costs of the operation. This is of course dubious and hopefully the courts will...
Uber, like the cowboy socialists of the West, talk all about private, individualized effort that makes America great. And like those cowboy socialists, Uber also relies on the government for.
Stephen Greenhouse has your must-read long-read of the day in his exposé of Uber and the argument that their drivers are not employees. He discusses several key points that observers.