As a former uber driver, this strike is completely justified. First off to drive in NyC you need special licenses, plates and pay exorbitant amounts of fees to the TLC which just whittles the driver’s income to nothing almost. Not to mention the cops and traffic people unfairly target drivers for tickets. This takes a toll on these drivers, and then you have uber taking a 35% cut from the total fare, which has went hp from 10% when they started, to slowly 35% which is insane! Alot of drivers are now in debt, barely making it and most are immigrants with families to support and no real way of making money. Back in the day, the cab business in Ny had immigrants making good enough money to send their kids to school, buy a low income house and live off in the lower middle class, now they all are living below the poverty line.
Civil-Broccoli-4588 t1_j9dp2zh wrote
Reply to FYI for anyone trying to take an Uber/Lyft from LGA on Sunday by RevolutionaryAd5176
As a former uber driver, this strike is completely justified. First off to drive in NyC you need special licenses, plates and pay exorbitant amounts of fees to the TLC which just whittles the driver’s income to nothing almost. Not to mention the cops and traffic people unfairly target drivers for tickets. This takes a toll on these drivers, and then you have uber taking a 35% cut from the total fare, which has went hp from 10% when they started, to slowly 35% which is insane! Alot of drivers are now in debt, barely making it and most are immigrants with families to support and no real way of making money. Back in the day, the cab business in Ny had immigrants making good enough money to send their kids to school, buy a low income house and live off in the lower middle class, now they all are living below the poverty line.