Uber and Lyft locked drivers in NYC get locked out of the app to stop them from working in order to game the city's minimum wage rule. @natlungfy.bsky.social@leonyin.org@denisedslu.bsky.social, and I reported on the impact this had and what it means for fair wages for drivers.
Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of their apps to game a NYC wage law, denying drivers millions in pay
I am now aware there is a repetition of "locked out" in that post. Oh well, you all know what I mean.
U/L don't disclose how big the lockouts are. So we built a WhatsApp bot to accept screenshots. We then manually reviewed all 7,000 of them (from 800 drivers) to ensure accuracy, log the time, and mark approximate location of the lockout. We interviewed 120 drivers. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
