Seattle May Soon Force Uber And Lyft Drivers To Unionize

Daily Caller ^ | 9/23/15 | Connor D Wolf

[BenLurkin]

Aren’t they independent contractors?

[MeshugeMikey]

Yes... by law they most certainly are. “Abandon all Hope Oh Ye Who Enter Seattle”

[G Larry]

The MOB doesn’t like the competition and the politicians hate to miss the bribes.

[nascarnation]

SEIU licking their chops....

[headstamp 2]

Do the drivers have guns to their heads and are they chained to the steering wheel?

Uber and Lyft would single-handedly make taxi medallions worthless after a time and the cities can’t let that happen.

the racket must be protected at all costs.

[nascarnation]

As you probably know, Uber has the secret nuclear weapon of lobbying, they hired Plouffy as a VP.

[BBell]

What is uber but an app for gypsy cabs?

[BBell]

Uber is just an app for gypsy cabs.

[nascarnation]

You and I know that, but apparently the pump and dump crowd is in love.

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/uber-is-now-worth-50-billion-stocks-in-the-news-cm504483

[cuban leaf]

After 45 years, I left Seattle a little over four years ago for my paradise in central Kentucky.

Every six months or so, Seattle makes the news with a story like this, vindicating me, yet again. How’s that “big dig west” going, BTW?

[Vince Ferrer]

Uber and Lyft drivers have a voice in that they can stop accepting rides at any time. Uber and Lyft must balance customer and driver needs in order to keep both happy.

[cuban leaf]

A friend of mine in Seattle owned a business where they hired contractors as interpreters for courtrooms. The state decided one day that their contractors were “employees” and threatened them with MASSIVE and live destroying fines if they didn’t “turn in” some of the folks that did similar stuff. It was like the McCarthyism myths, only real. It was “turn in” folks or lose everything.

The corruption is disgusting.

[MeshugeMikey]

a “liberal” paradise

[taildragger]

This is very much like the Unions taking dues out of day care workers and people taking care of their relatives as primary care givers here in Michigan without their permission. That got stopped. I am not so sure they can stop it in that neck of the woods...

[Alberta's Child]

If Seattle forces Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize, will they also force the union to buy their cars for them?

[Vince Ferrer]

Uber has market cap of around 50 billion, and is spending money on self driving cars. Progressives are on the wrong side of history.

[BBell]

I live near New Orleans. The city passed a slew of new directives for taxi drivers. Their vehicles can't be more than 10 years old. They have to have GPS, be able to speak English and I believe there is even one pertaining to the cleanliness of the cab which includes the smell. There are more but I don't recall them all.

A lot of the drivers are foreigners. You know if you try to rob a foreign run mini-mart the chances are good you won't walk away. Wait until these foreign born taxi drivers start feeling like they are being robbed by uber drivers.

[tbw2]

And in a week, there’s a new rival app for the same service not listed in the law.

[Alberta's Child]

Uber is likely to change radically in the coming years, self-driving cars or not. I've long believed that a business model built on people who really don't know how to price their own services isn't likely to last very long. As more and more drivers get wise to the racket, the business will have to change.

Kudos to the astute Freeper above who pointed out that Uber is really nothing more than an app for gypsy cabs. Wait until they have to compete with a Chinese company that develops an app for gypsy cabs driven by illegal aliens.