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Just ahead of Uber’s stock market listing set for 10 May 2019, drivers in various cities across the globe intend to log out of their Uber apps between 7AM and 9AM on 08 May 2019. Press reports indicate that drivers are expected to log out globally, hitting cities in the US, and in Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay, and the U.K. The initiatives will vary from city to city. In New York, a certain number of the taxi-drivers union members who work with Uber are seeking to drive momentum forward and have launched a call to all drivers to join the action (job security and livable incomes!) Lyft drivers are similarly being invited to participate. In the U.K. the independent IWGB (the Indepdendent Workers Union of Great Britain) union is calling for mini-cabdrivers to follow suit with a national shutdown as part of its Gig Is Up Campaign. Chile’s movement is being led by the ACUA (Association of Chilean Drivers of Applications) union. Uber’s upcoming IPO is worrying drivers as regards their working conditions. Uber hasn’t hidden its desire to downgrade its services providers compensation policy and it warned that their business, ‘would be gravely impacted if drivers became ‘employee’s instead of ‘independent workers’, referring to ‘several legal cases in the US and elsewhere being brought over the appropriate classification.’
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