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Uber's Seattle woes: union battle could see company leave another major city

3 pointsby room271about 8 years ago

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posguyabout 8 years ago
Unionizing sucessfully or causing Uber and Lyft to leave the market seems great by me, both Uber drivers I know here in Seattle hate the gig, as Uber essentially needs them to be idle ~40% of the time to keep pickup times below 10min on average. Combined with both of them leasing cars through Uber (which I told one of &#x27;em not to), its a real nightmare caused by Uber.<p>If this causes Uber and Lyft to leave town as they don&#x27;t want to allow any room for drivers to organize, allowing the multitude of other ridesharing apps (which don&#x27;t take anywhere near a 30% to 45% cut) to take their place like what happened in Austin would be fine for Seattle.