Lyft and Uber threatened to stop doing business in Minneapolis after the city council adopted a new rule Thursday that would set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers.
Great, just get the heck out of here with your gig market profiteering.
Further proof that if they could pay you less (or nothing), they happily would.
Oh no. People might have to use regular taxis.
Or maybe just take a walk, use public transit, ride a bike, or use some other sort of !micromobility!
Public transport in Minneapolis/St. Paul sucks
Coincidence?
What public transport
The one in your heart?
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Good! Providing a cheap service at the cost of the staff doing the work is not acceptable.
This is all just grandstanding anyway. They may leave, but likely they will just increase their rates.
Exactly. I envision them threatening to leave, but ultimately not taking the revue hit by raising prices for the end users.
I don’t agree with profits over everything. I anticipate the public narrative blaming the drivers or politicians for them exiting the market, but in my opinion its their own corporate greed thats pushing them out. This is unfair and people shouldn’t be vilified for standing up for workers rights.
It’s like when Amazon threatened to leave NY when AOC was campaigning for higher minimum wage over there or whatever it was. I forget the exact details, but the point is that it ended up being a bluff and of course they stayed.
GTFO of Minneapolis if you can’t pay your employees you don’t deserve to do business here
Someone else will backfill the need.
“Allow us to exploit the labor or we will leave the market”
Same excuse since the dawn of slavery
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I don’t keep up with Uber news, but do they still not consider their drivers to be actual employees, but rather 1099 workers? Either way that company can go to hell.
Lyft too if they have the same attitude.
Good. If business plan relies on exploiting workers, then it’s a garbage business plan & deserves to fail.
Call their bluff, they won’t leave.
They literally won’t. They’ll set their rates at “profitable” numbers and leave their computers on, just like everywhere else.
But if the apparatus of the people (government) backs down then it’ll be another total failure of government.
Okay bye bye. It’s not like they suddenly take all the drivers and their cars with them. Are they forgetting what business they are in? All they do is match drivers with passengers. Some other scrappy startup can easily fill that gap when they leave. Uber became only big because of first mover advantage and cut throat capitalism. Their tech is not groundbreaking.
Hell, Uber isn’t even the only business in the “ride share” category at the moment.
Most cities have at least one other similar business already.
Like Lyft? The other rideshare app in the article?
If every business in Ohio left that cried about some laws there wouldn’t be any left
They never pass up profit, even if it’s less
don’t threaten me with a good time
Conveniently, biking will be a good alternative again once the bike lane isn’t full of illegally parked rideshare cars.
(Not from MN but Ubers are a plague for safe city biking where I am)
Considering they are not really any cheaper than taxis, no biggie.
They’re much nicer, though. That’s why they’ve been successful.
When scummy companies like that are really pissed off about a new policy, that policy is exactly the right thing to do.
