Posted by: T-mack
Posted by: tungsten
Posted by: T-mack
. At least an Uber driver will have to take care of their rides.
Ya figger? How, with wages like this?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpAJFqgAbN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
i always assumed Uber drivers do it as a secondary source of income vs a full time job.
Reality....
Pay cuts are all the more loathsome given how the company has recruited its drivers — a model Lenny Sanchez, a rideshare driver and co-founder of Chicago Rideshare Advocates, calls predatory. Among the company’s misdeeds was a controversial subprime car loan program, which garnered comparisons to indentured servitude. Sanchez says he’s seen Uber “targeting low-income minority neighborhoods — people who specifically do not have credit, do not have co-signers, do not have a job, do not have a car, but people that are about as desperate as can be,” Sanchez says. “They’re just in a deep hole. So Uber and Lyft present the solution to these people.”
Uber’s entire business model is based on undercutting drivers at every turn. Perhaps most notably, the Uber characterizes drivers as independent contractors, which means they don’t receive the same workplace regulations or benefits, including healthcare.
The independent contractor classification is at the heart of “Uber’s hyper aggressive nature of disrupting workforces,” as Sanchez calls it. “Their main objective is to skate around regulations so that they don’t have to comply with everything that exists — the protections that an employee, or union-protected employees have. If they can redefine any workforce as independent contractors, they will.”
The lack of benefits is particularly troubling given the low pay — which studies have found to be poverty wages — and high expenses for Uber drivers. “You give passengers a discount, but for drivers? We don’t get a discount on maintenance,” Suen says.
https://inequality.org/great-divide/uber-drivers-strike-before-ipo/