Clear admission from Uber in today's earning call of what was long suspected but never admitted: Uber is harvesting data from their driver workforce to train autonomous vehicle AI models to replace them.

The 'innovators' at Wayve, Uber's autonomous vehicle investment, are not just content with automating the actual driving, they also want to replicate and automate the emotional labour of drivers as well!

According to Pershing Square, a major investor in Uber, in the near future human drivers will only fill in gaps at periods of peak demand, most of the work will be done by autonomous vehicle fleets. Having destroyed decent work, Uber now wants to kill off employment altogether.

“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” - Gandhi.

Trans rights are human rights.

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Uber Eats' St Patrick's Day promotion shows both the limitations of generative AI as well as its prejudicial stereotyping. Suggestions for 'ingredients for an Irish supper' is restricted to 9 types of potatoes, 2 types of mince meat, corned beef, cabbage, 4 types of butter, kale and er, that's it.

Delivery platforms are fuelling fears against their own workforce, promoting the idea that your delivery worker may be undocumented and worthy of suspicion. This only makes workers more vulnerable to harassment and violence.

Inadequate Human Review into ADM ❌
While continuing to deny the use of automated decision making to fire workers, Uber allege this constitutes an adequate and meaningful human review...

Rampant Robo-firing ❌
Deliveroo fire a worker for taking too long on his journeys. The data shows just 3 flagged rides clearly suggesting a termination trigger was activated. The human review fails to pick up that for 1 ride, the worker arrived at the restaurant within seconds.

Access to Data ❌
An Employment Tribunal found that Bolt were applying a ‘driver score metric’ to impose a prioritised system of work allocation to favour higher-scoring drivers.

Bolt have not provided this personal data in response to ANY of our subject access requests.

Tonight we have written to @mayorofldn.bsky.social & Transport Commissioner Andy Lord to demand accountability at TfL for signing off on Bolt's plan to cheat workers out of pension contributions. This from last Friday's Employment Tribunal ruling:

Pension auto enrolment is a legal requirement as TfL knows. Yet here we have Robert Maxwell level pension fiddling reported to TfL in March 2024 & yet in May 2024 TfL & Sadiq Khan granted Bolt a new public license. Heads must roll!
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Tony West leaning into a union endorsement for Kamala promising she would pass the Pro Act. Yet, as General Counsel at Uber, West busted unions and funded a massive effort to successfully defeat the Pro Act! Is it any wonder people are cynical? theintercept.com/2021/05/06/p...

While the UK government says that the worker status issue is soooo complex they need 2 more years to consider worker rights for gig workers, that hasn't stopped them from introducing new rules from Jan 2025 to require platforms to quietly grass up their workers to HMRC. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Listen as a McDonalds manager in Northern Ireland inappropriately pressures Uber Eats drivers to prioritise the deliveries of McDonalds food over Starbucks or KFC - something not at the discretion of drivers. More in our McMisery report: www.workerinfoexchange.org/mcexploitati...