How Uber Profits Even When Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money (vice.com)

tedlistens writes: Jay Cassano spoke to Uber drivers about "dead miles" and what work means when your boss is an algorithm, and considers a new frontier of labor concerns and big data. "Uber is the closest thing to an employer we've ever seen in this industry," Bhairavi Desai, founder of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, told him. "They not only direct every aspect of a driver's workday, they also profit off the entire day through data collection, not just the 'sale of a product.'"

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Re:New York Taxi Workers' Alliance

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

The taxi industry in South Florida has (or had) the municipal government in it's back pocket. They tried to shut down Uber, etc, until it became clear that everyone knew that the commission was being bribed, and that federal investigations were incoming unless they started representing the will of the people and not the will of Yellow Cab (Jessie Gaddis, here).

Re:New York Taxi Workers' Alliance

[TotallyNotYellowCab]

Me too, I don't see why taxis are so slandered/libeled by Uber!