A group of app drivers in the UK went on strike for 24 hours on Wednesday to demand that the company be held accountable for the findings of the files.
Drivers and passengers were told not to use the app on Wednesday. Between 12pm and 2pm on Wednesday, the union held a public demonstration at the head office of the ride hailing company. There was good compliance with the picket line, according to theADCU.
The Supreme Court in the UK ruled in favor of workers last year, and the union wants the ride-sharing company to obey it. In order to assume a greater share of responsibility for each trip, the judges ruled that the company should enter into a contract with passengers.
As a result of the court ruling, the ADCU demands that Uber pay its drivers back pay, as well as end unethical political influencing in the UK, and dismiss executive board member Pierre-Dimitri Gore- Coty.
According to Yaseen Aslam, the president of the ADCU, management behavior is as egregious now as it was. The Supreme Court ruled that drivers should be paid minimum wage and holiday pay for all hours worked. In making partial settlement in the wake of the landmark ruling, Uber took advantage of vulnerable drivers, already impoverished by the epidemic, to pressure them to settle for far less than what was actually owed and to surrender their statutory rights.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of drivers in the UK. In a regulatory filing, the company said that drivers would be paid holiday time, automatically enroll into a pension plan and earn at least the minimum wage.
The Supreme Court and lower courts have ruled that drivers should be paid at least the minimum wage after costs for all working time from log on to log off. The union says that the count of hours and minutes between dispatch and drop off leaves drivers short-changed.
In order to ensure that drivers are paid during down time, the union wants the company to increase fares to £2.50 per mile and 20p per minute and cap its commission at 15%.
The files brought to light the company's political influence. When the French President was an economy minister, he was on a first name basis with Kalanick, who was the former CEO of the company.
TheADCU was concerned about the targeting of Labour party MPs. According to the union, executives from the ride-sharing company participated in the Labour party conference last year. The union wants politicians to no longer have contact with the company until it proves that it is on its best behavior.
The files show Pierre-Dimitri Gore- Coty exchanging text messages with other executives about the "kill switch" When law enforcement came knocking, the kill switch was usually used. Gore- Coty wrote a book to fight enforcement.
The union claims that by employing a senior staffer who was involved in activity designed to subvert regulatory oversight in the UK, the company is in violation of a license condition.
James Farrar, the general secretary of the ADCU, called on the former lobbyist for the company to give testimony about what happened inside the company.
In order to ensure that drivers earn a living wage after expenses, as well as holiday pay, which is given out weekly as cash, and pension contributions, the company has implemented. According to a company spokesman, eligible drivers have received over £100 million in pension contributions and £185 million in holiday pay from the company.
In the first quarter of 2022, drivers earned an average of £29.72ph, including holiday pay, when they were active on the app. A combination of higher earnings, new protections such as holiday pay and a pension and trade union recognition in the UK has led to more than 10,000 new drivers signing up with the ride-sharing service.
From midnight to midnight, the strike went on. It is not clear how many people participated.
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