05-10-2019, 02:34 PM
(05-10-2019, 01:39 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Not everyone has the resources to start their own company that could compete with Uber or Lyft.
Organized labor is just the free market at work. Why do you oppose that?
I have said they are free to do as they like and the company is free to do nothing in response. The problem is organizing around people that possess no skills and are on boarded through a phone app provides no leverage to those organizing. It's not so much I oppose it, it's more that it pointless.
What I am fighting against is the idea that somehow the companies have wronged these contractors. In terms of contracted work they have done nothing any different then most contractors runs in to. The issue for them is there isn't high demand for unlicensed drivers who otherwise had no use other than on the platforms created by the two main companies. The fact their skills are in low demand with a surplus of similarly unskilled labor isn't the fault of the companies who built the platforms.
They can want more without the companies being bad for not giving them what they want. If everyone at my company wants to work from home, and the company says no, that doesn't make the company evil for saying no. This used to be described as weighing your options and making adult decisions based on the options.
