The strike began at 12:01 a.m. Monday and ends at midnight, according to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, the union that represents about 15,000 Uber, Lyft and taxi cab drivers.
The $21 million is an amount"Uber would never be able to recover from New York City or anyone else," the company argued in its lawsuit filed earlier this month. Uber asked a New York judge to temporarily halt the raises until the case is settled, which a judge granted last Tuesday.
The taxi commission's proposed pay increases would have allowed drivers to charge $1.34 per mile, up from $1.16 in March and $1.08 in February 2019, just before theUber said its drivers in the Big Apple already get pay increases after their annual performance review. The increases are"tied to the rate of inflation" and"that's one reason why driver pay has gone up 38.4% since 2019," the company said Monday.
"We expect thousands of drivers to show up today to say, 'Uber, it's Christmas," Uber driver Michelle Dottin said."Why would you stop a raise? Why would you just want to hold a raise?'" Uber's claims are about"a business model where workers work double the hours and get half the pay," alleged Bhairavi Desai, the taxi union's executive director.
"The bottom line is, Uber wants to pay nothing more to the drivers whose labor creates the company's profits," she told CBS MoneyWatch."New York City drivers are mostly full-timers who invested in cars just for the job and who depend on this income to feed their families."
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