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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by cderwin on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:12AM (#13528970)
To be clear, Uber did not break the strike. Uber drivers, who apparently did not feel compelled to take part in the strike, broke it. Strikes are not composed of companies, they are composed of workers. Would you expect Uber to have refused to let its drivers operate (against their will) during the taxi strike? That's absurd on its face.
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by madeofpalk on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @06:04AM (#13529553)
Most importantly, AFAIK it wasnt even the taxi companies that called the strike, but the taxi unions.
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by ajamesm on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @10:31AM (#13531340)
I would expect Uber to ensure drivers are organized and informed about strikes and empowered to join them, if they were truly a neutral ride-sharing platform.

Really, they're just a business that employs people whom they don't want to classify as employees, and would sooner drown their riders in a lake than see them organize.

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by FeepingCreature on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:24AM (#13531923)
> I would expect Uber to ensure drivers are organized and informed about strikes

That seems absurd. Uber is not a union. There is a dangerous conflict of incentive in relying on the people harmed by a strike to be organizing them.

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by ajamesm on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:42AM (#13532217)
Yes. That's because Uber ISN'T a neutral platform for ride sharing, it's a taxi service with employees.
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