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'Leave them stranded': Rideshare drivers shut off apps at Atlanta airport, boycott for hours
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this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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Officially but not actually. Falsely classifying employees as independent contractors is a common trick corporations use to be able to treat them like shit.
Exactly. If they actually were independent contractors, they could charge whatever price they want for a ride. But they can't, Uber decides how much a ride costs and how much the driver gets of that cost. Independent my ass.
I agree that companies sometimes misclassify employees but I'm not sure this is the case here. The drivers choose when and where to work and provide their own resources to complete the jobs they choose to accept.
Within parameters set by the company with strict penalties if you don't obey them. So no, they don't really choose.
Like with school teachers, who are also employees, that's exploitation, not independence.
Again, while fulfilling mandatory quotas, meaning that there's a high risk of having to accept fares they would prefer not to, as per the rules of their EMPLOYER Uber/Lyft.