A little confused by this whole #deleteuber response for a couple different reasons:

The whole “not being part of a collective” is the feature, not a bug, of being an Uber driver.

How does this have to do with Preparedness? I can’t get back the 4 minutes that I just wasted by reading your snowflake-y rant on why Unions are great and innovation is bad. #deleteConcourse

This is a laughably naive viewpoint. You must still be in school.

Create laws? What the fuck are you talking about?

That line right there is all you need to know. It’s a laughable oversight to make as a layman who is vaguely familiar with Uber and how it works, much less someone paid to write about this shit. Unbelievable.

Uber is an easy target. How many other vital services could have shut down the transportation to the airport? The trains, the airlines, etc etc. Instead of #deleteUber or whatever people should fucking vote (in the midterms).

But how is making people late for planes, late for work, late getting home a “peaceful” protest? I’m just trying to get home, why are you bothering me? It really doesn’t help your cause.

It’s not specific to the free market. Uber “employees” aren’t employees. They’re anyone who wants to do it whenever they want.

Why is facilitating travel to and from JFK a bad thing?

Explain to me how this was remotely helpful on the part of the taxi union. The fact that the ban was temporarily lifted probably had more to do with the people who voluntarily showed up at JFK than those who didn’t and inconvenienced thousands of travelers who had no say in the decisions being made by our president.…

So, you’re mad at Uber for doing their job and getting a whole bunch of otherwise stranded people home safely?

Exactly. I would bet my retirement that a number of those Uber drivers who stepped in are also taxi drivers in the NYC taxi union.

You’re right. You should write an article on that.

The simplicity of this statement and how easy and quick it is to come up with almost makes me believe that it was intentionally left out of the article for ideological purposes. . .

“Because they have no union. They are not organized. And therefore they are at the mercy of their company.”