Drivers

'We're just getting started': inside Austin's contentious clash with Uber and Lyft “These guys out in Silicon Valley like to consider themselves disrupters, but they’re just another version of what we’ve had before: big business [types] who think they can write their own laws.”
As thousands of techies head to Austin for SXSW, one city councilwoman stands to lose her job over a regulatory showdown with the ride-sharing firms

Unionizing Uber: New front in battle over wildly successful ride-hailing app

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/uber-unions-washington-st...

CBC Mar 23, 2016

Unionizing Uber: New front in battle over wildly successful ride-hailing app

Seattle became 1st city in North America to give Uber drivers the right to unionize late last year

By Chris Brown, Chris Corday

Uber Drivers Up Against the App-Respect The Drivers!
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/nyregion/uber-drivers-up-against-the-a...
By ALAN FEUERFEB. 19, 2016 21 COMMENTS

Drivers who assembled in front of the company’s Long Island City office on Feb. 1 to protest Uber’s latest reduction in their rates. CreditKevin Hagen for The New York Times

Will protesting Uber drivers disrupt Super Bowl transit? “No one is really happy to go to work and do the same job for less pay. We often hear rumblings about strikes, but Uber won’t react unless it affects their bottom line.”
http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Will-protesting-Uber-drivers...
By Carolyn SaidFebruary 4, 2016 Updated: February 4, 2016 4:05pm

Uber Drivers and Others in the Gig Economy Take a Stand
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/business/uber-drivers-and-others-in-th...
By NOAM SCHEIBERFEB. 2, 2016