Rideshare application drivers in Nashville and around the country went on strike Wednesday.
“Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers are DONE with being pushed around by app companies. We’re sick of working 80 hours/week just to make ends meet, being constantly scared for our safety, and worrying about being deactivated with the click of a button,” a group called Justice for App Workers said on its website. “Rideshare drivers and delivery workers will be striking ALL DAY and telling the app companies that WE ARE UNITED and deserve fair pay and deactivation protections.”
The group encouraged rideshare drivers to sign a pledge to strike.
Drivers in 13 cities, including Nashville, were listed on the website as major hubs for the strike.
Other cities included New York, Miami, Las Vegas, and smaller cities like Providence, Rhode Island, and Hartford, Connecticut.
The group says it is “transforming our industry” and lists several ways it will do that.
One of those ways is protecting drivers against account deactivation without notice to the driver.
The group wants to “[e]nsure drivers and delivery workers have due process in all app deactivation cases, so workers don’t lose their livelihoods without the ability to share their side of the story and fight back against misinformation.”
The group also advocates for what it calls a “living wage” and access to healthcare benefits.
Meanwhile, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is turning up the heat on rideshare apps for a practice known as “piggybacking,” which she says is allowing illegal aliens to drive for services like UberEats, GrubHub and DoorDash.
“One of the things that has concerned us is that you have those who have illegally entered the country who are beginning to piggyback on these [food delivery] accounts, and of course, this came to light when you had the illegal alien who had been granted parole status who was delivering food in New York, commits a crime, leaves and goes to Athens, Georgia, again delivering food, and he then kills Laken Riley,” Blackburn said on Fox & Friends earlier this week, as reported by The Tennessee Star. “So we know that this is happening, and one of the things, Carly, that we paid so much attention to is how these cartels are beginning to find ways for people who they’re illegally bringing into the country to work because these people have to work for the cartel to pay back their fee for getting into the country.
Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student at the University of Georgia who was allegedly murdered by Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Ibarra in March.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter/X.
the ‘gig economy’ is a poverty economy. the ‘gig’ offering companies shift all risk to the gig employees, offer them little money which decreases over time, and no benefits.
the only way it would improve is if people stop working for them completely
The next thing that will happen in this issue will be that ILLEGAL ALIENS will be driving instead of Americans. Ever since the biden administration did away with E-Verify ILLEGAL ALIENS are being hired. This is why biden keeps bragging about how many jobs he has created.
Round theses law breaker up and send them back to where ever they came from.