Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del...
by Udik on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:32AM
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The only way Uber could have participated in the strike would have been by paying its drivers for the time they didn't work if they decided not to. Uber, as a taxi drivers employer, cannot just decide on its own that its workers are striking and won't get paid.
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del...
by Heliosmaster on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:34AM
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You can always disable the service.
Then you will get angry drivers that cannot earn money because of a choice you made, but you can participate to the strike.
Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del...
by Udik on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:57AM
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That would have meant forcing other people (their drivers) to strike, and share the economic loss for it as well. Not very fair, don't you think? Being on strike with other people's money?
Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del...
by ajamesm on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @10:46AM
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Yup, that's the short-term drawback. You correctly identified it. Now, contrast it with the long-term drawbacks of not organizing at all.
Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del...
by jaynos on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:43AM
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Uber could have participated by changing the surge pricing to 20X, 100X or some similarly high number. That's not to say that they should have.
A lot of the anger at Uber is also due to their CEO being an economic advisor to Trump.
Meanwhile, Lyft played this perfectly. Stayed out of the fray and then donated $1MM to the ACLU.