NYC taxi union strikes at LaGuardia; Uber says rides out of airport increased

Uber officials said rides retired of LaGuardia International Airport are up 36% connected Sunday, contempt a union’s effort to extremity each rideshare trips retired of nan New York City airdrome for unfair wages.

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, aliases NYTWA, boasts a rank of 25,000 master drivers, which includes taxicab and rideshare workers.

A Lyft spokesperson said nan app is "committed to helping support drivers and riders safe." (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images)

The national planned to spell connected onslaught astatine LaGuardia airdrome connected Feb. 26 by refusing to prime up Uber and Lyft rides betwixt 12 p.m. and 12 a.m. aft a raise for each NYTWA members that was expected to spell into effect connected Dec. 19, 2022, was stopped by Uber.

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The raise would person meant a 7.3% summation successful nan per infinitesimal complaint and a per mile complaint summation of 24% for Uber and Lyft drivers because of rising costs.

"As pinch nan past mates of times, nan taxi manufacture ‘protest’ has had nary effect connected Uber," Uber spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said connected Sunday. "The taxi relation should attraction connected issues that really resonate pinch drivers, for illustration nan TLC’s universally hated lockout rule, alternatively than PR stunts."

Signage extracurricular nan Uber Technologies office successful San Francisco, California, U.S., connected Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Uber Technologies Inc. is scheduled to merchandise net figures connected February 9.  (Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Uber reported that its drivers had completed 36% much trips from LaGuardia connected Sunday than a emblematic Sunday.

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This is nan 3rd onslaught called by nan NYTWA regarding wages. When its members striked connected Dec. 19, Uber officials said, nan rideshare institution saw 8% much trips and 7% much drivers connected nan app than nan mean Monday for nan 3rd 4th successful 2022.

As for pay, Uber officials said New York City drivers are making 38.4% much connected a seven-mile and 30-minute travel since 2019. The institution besides said drivers person received 3 complaint increases since 2020.

In fact, successful 2020 drivers sewage a 1.4% summation successful per infinitesimal and per mile rates, location was nary complaint summation successful 2021, and successful 2022 location was a 5.34% summation successful per infinitesimal and per mile rates.

This year, drivers sewage an summation of 6.39%.

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"On February 1, drivers sewage their 3rd mandated raise since 2020 and now make $31.66/hour," Goldstein said. "This is nan only manufacture successful nan authorities pinch a yearly required summation tied to nan complaint of inflation, while minimum costs workers person not had 1 raise since 2018."

Still, NYTWA members made their beingness known astatine LaGuardia connected Sunday.

The union’s Twitter claimed location were "hundreds" of striking drivers astatine nan airport, each demanding to beryllium treated pinch respect.

New York City Councilman Shekar Krishnan was astatine nan onslaught arsenic good and posted his support for nan drivers connected Twitter.

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"Our taxi workers are essential," nan metropolis assembly personnel said. "@uber suing to extremity nan rule that gave them a agelong overdue salary raise is cruel. It’s an reproach to their dignity & sacrifices arsenic workers. Solidarity pinch @NYTWA connected strike. We will support fighting for nan salary raise, and to extremity unfair deactivations."