As industry-leader Uber celebrates record revenue, app workers are demanding their just due.
What makes app work so dangerous? App-based corporations like Uber and Lyft rely on a business model that shifts responsibility for safety on the job to drivers and pushes them into dangerous situations. Here’s how the model puts drivers at risk.
Further, Uber and Lyft can “deactivate”— essentially terminate — workers for any reason, leaving them suddenly unemployed and without income, often without meaningful recourse. Recent surveys show that temporary and permanent deactivation are a regular occurrence for many app workers. This model fuels the pressure on workers to keep working even when they feel unsafe and not rock the boat with customers who could get them deactivated with a complaint.
As the largest app corporation in the world, Uber has both a responsibility and an opportunity to make meaningful changes to address the safety crisis drivers face. Not only is the corporation not rising to the occasion, but in 2022 Uber paid CEO Dara Khosrowshahi more than $1 million and four other executives another $1.3 million for “safety improvements.
Drivers know what will keep them safe: fair pay, job security, and solidarity. On May 4, thousands of rideshare drivers across the country — in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, and New York — are coming together to take action to demand that Uber improve safety by ending unfair driver terminations and paying drivers fairly for their work. All Uber has to do is follow their lead.Truthout is one of the few truly independent newsrooms left.
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