Dozens of Uber and Lyft drivers shut off their apps and picketed in front of LaGuardia Airport for 12 hours on Sunday to protest what the drivers say are unfair and unjust deactivations of their accounts. Drivers at the picket, who are organized with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, are also demanding that ridesharing companies pay them more for each ride and stop fighting city-mandated raises that were supposed to be instituted last year.
Uber sued New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission in December, temporarily halting TLC-approved raises that would have obliged the company to pay drivers 7.42 percent more per minute and 23.93 more per mile.
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