Lyft and Uber say they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require ride-hailing services to increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local hourly minimum wage of $15.57.

Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour.

Lyft called the ordinance “deeply flawed,” saying in a statement that it supports a minimum earning standard for drivers but not the one passed by the council.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    1413·
    8 months ago

    Good. Get the fuck outta here and let someone who can run a functioning company take your place. Functioning companies pay their workers enough to live on.

      • Alk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        201·
        8 months ago

        Well at this point the old “taxi” model is (from the consumers perspective) basically the same as Uber. Use an app to get a ride, pay for the ride, (maybe) tip the driver. Call them whatever you want, but it just needs to be another Uber, but better.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
        141·
        8 months ago

        Yes, taxi, the thing Uber and Lyft and many more company rebranded into something fancy like “Ride-hailing” or “ride-sharing”.