Uber but for strikes
Today, Explained
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4.3 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | I'm Reuters J. Line Healy here in San Francisco in front of the Uber headquarters where about |
| 0:44.4 | a hundred drivers and activists have gathered to protest the company. |
| 0:49.0 | No drivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, |
| 0:57.0 | no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, |
| 1:03.0 | no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, without anyone else. |
| 1:07.0 | Pepper, Viagrace, hop embezzang, hop embezzang, hop embezzang, hop embezzang, hop embezzang, |
| 1:12.0 | no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers, no trivers. |
| 1:18.0 | the company could be valued at more than $90 billion. |
| 1:23.0 | This is one of the biggest recent tech IPOs. It's by far the largest of the so-called Gig economy. |
| 1:30.0 | Chierin Geffari is a reporter at recode. |
| 1:33.0 | So as early investors and Uber, and corporate employees stand to make millions off of this |
| 1:39.0 | and come overnight millionaires, drivers were feeling like they were getting the short end of the stick. |
| 1:44.0 | And what exactly did drivers do or not do yesterday? |
| 1:48.0 | Uber drivers shut down their apps, meaning they didn't take rides. In LA and San Diego, |
| 1:53.0 | we saw drivers shut down their apps for a full 24 hours. |
| 1:56.0 | Whereas in other places, they just did it during the morning commute, like from 7am to 9am local time. |
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