Opinion | Mostafa Maklad: To Uber, I'm a driver but not a worker. But their billion-dollar IPO is built off my labor. - NBCNewsTHINK
Waheed’s family came here from Afghanistan four years ago with a special immigrant visa after serving as a translator for U.S. Army. He was studying computer science at Diablo Valley College and driving at night. I fled Egypt in 2014 and received asylum in the United States. Despite having a work permit, I had a hard time finding a full-time job, so I turned to Uber three years ago.
Since then, I’ve given 8,000 rides, usually driving between 50-60 hours a week — though sometimes it’s 80. The living hourly wage — the amount of money one needs to earn to afford housing, food, medical care and transportation — is aboutApps like Uber and Lyft sell a dream that can easily become a nightmare for drivers and riders
We can’t afford to live in the cities where we work, so there are parking lots throughout the Bay Area where Uber and Lyft drivers congregate, sleeping in their cars between hours-long shifts — many doing so for a few days before driving back to their homes in Vallejo, Sacramento, Stockton or other cheaper cities. There’s something wrong when the Uber CEO can buy a
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