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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #175: Shut off the Apps, with International Striking Uber and Lyft Drivers
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Ride-share drivers around the world turned off the app and turned up the noise at Uber’s international headquarters as the company went public, and helped to change the narrative from that of massive profits to one of disappointment. The drivers around the world are asking for their share of the value created—which is, as we’d note, most of it! We spoke to drivers and organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK.Â
We also checked in on potential labor law reform on the national scale and farmwor...