In New York, organizers say more than 1,000 Uber and Lyft drivers marched in the streets this week to protest the companies’ unfair pay rules. Uber has started locking workers out of the app during low demand periods in order to avoid paying them for “idle time” between rides. Lyft is threatening to do the same. Workers say this not only costs them wages, but makes it impossible to have a reliable work schedule. The anti-worker move was implemented as a workaround to New York City rules that require ride-share companies to pay drivers when they are on the clock, even if they are not actively driving around passengers. Unionized drivers say they could go on strike unless the policy ends.

Unionized driver: “Uber is just a corporation, a capitalist. Uber just want to make profit. They don’t care about your well-being.”