Uber Eats strike in Gauteng may spread to other cities as drivers protest fee cuts Business Insider SA
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Uber Eats drivers in Johannesburg and Pretoria have refused to work on Friday and Saturday, in protest against recent cuts in delivery fees.
According to a representative, they are now earning only R4 a kilometre.
A nationwide strike will start on Wednesday, if Uber Eats does not respond to their requests.
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A strike among Uber Eats drivers has almost paralysed the food-delivery service
in Gauteng over the past two days – and may start nationwide from Wednesday.
Speaking to
The Citizen Bernard said: “The reason we have it for a second day is that Uber strikes before, drivers would participate for about two to three hours and only some drivers would be involved. Uber could obviously see this and wouldn’t really address any of the problems or fix the issues. So I ask my other fellow drivers, let’s join together and lets strike together until they listen to our grievances. ”
Bernard says some drivers who have joined the strike are from Gauteng and in the Western Cape.
“On Monday without consulting anyone they just decided to lower our rate. They have lowered it to R4 per kilometre, they have done this over the years, slyly so. If you take the rates that a driver was earning three years ago and compare it now, it’s literally half to what they were earning. With inflation, it is common sense you cant lower rates or salaries.”
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