Today Uber and Lyft drivers are supposed to go on strike...

[brooklynite]

...or not.

Uber And Lyft Drivers Are Striking — And Call On Passengers To Boycott

Ahead of Uber's initial public offering, drivers for Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing companies plan to strike, turning off the apps as they flex their collective muscles to say: What about us?

Drivers in 10 cities across the country are taking action on Wednesday to draw attention to what they say are decreasing wages for drivers and a distressing lack of job security — and some are calling on passengers to temporarily boycott the ride-hailing services, too.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/721333408/uber-and-lyft-drivers-are-striking-and-call-on-passengers-to-boycott

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. A highly fractured workforce finds it hard to build solidarity? You don't say.

It's almost like it's by design.

[brooklynite]

2. Considering the availability of social media to all...

...shouldn't be a problem if there's interest in organizing. I seem to remember a march in 2017.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. If social media is all it took, global unionism would be a breeze.

[Submariner]

4. Screw em

It seems every time I read about these Uber and Lyft clowns they are either raping a female passenger, or kicking her out of the car on a remote road, or beating on them, or stalking.

If not assaulting women, I have read where they arrive for a pickup, and then drive away and abandon riders with a support dog.

This Uber crap seems to have opened the door to rapists and creeps to prey on women, with little if any background checks before allowing them to drive passengers.

I'll stick with the taxi. The employers seem to do a better job of screening out the sicko's.

[brooklynite]

5. In NYC, drivers are regulated by the same agency that handles taxis.

[NurseJackie]

6. Really? Exactly how often is this happening? You make it sound like it's happening daily or weekly.

[Submariner]

7. Yesterday was the most recent local incident I read about

She ordered an Uber. What she got was a stalker

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/05/07/she-ordered-uber-what-she-got-was-stalker/kgOFXxzng3yxTgWw2Df0dJ/story.html

She usually would have walked from her house to the Prudential Center.

But it was raining. So she called an Uber. On the way to the car, she tripped over her feet.

The driver hopped out of the Lexus RX to make sure she was all right. Old enough to be her dad, he seemed nice enough. You know, not like that Uber driver arrested for allegedly raping his passenger on Storrow Drive in March.

What’s going on at the Pru, he asked.

Dinner with a girlfriend, she said.

What’s a beautiful girl like you doing running around single in Boston, he inquired.

On a 16-minute ride on a Sunday afternoon, he asked her a series of rapid-fire questions about where she was from, how long she’d lived in the city, and where she worked.

“My guard was down. He’s an old white man in a Lexus,” admitted Elle, who is white herself. (The Globe is using only her nickname at her request, for safety reasons.) “So I think, ‘OK, you’re probably not going to kill me.’ ”

Women should be able to safely catch a ride-share, bus, or train without worrying we’ll enter a passenger and exit a victim. Instead, we check license plates. We text a friend when we get in and out of the ride. We look for characteristics that mark a man as “safe.”

Before the driver unlocked the doors and dropped her off, he handed her his card.

Call me, he said. I’d love to take you out for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.

She wasn’t interested. But she politely said thanks the way women have been told they must in order to keep the male ego intact.

By the time she got home from dinner, she had a stalker. As she walked up the stairs to her building, she saw a piece of paper wedged in the front door.

It was a letter. From the driver. He had returned to her home while she was out.

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A Google of "uber and lyft assaults on women" reveals many incidents of assault and rape.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=uber+and+lyft+assaults+on+women&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8