Kebetulan sekali saya baca artikel yang senada dengan posting saya sebelumnya tentang Invasi bisnis melalui aplikasi smartphone , yang satu ini berasal dari Media ternama yaitu The Guardian.
Di Negara asalnya sendiri, ternyata Uber membangkrutkan perusahaan lokalnya.. Hmmm... mungkin karena itu Uber perlu menginvasi negara lain..
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Di Negara asalnya sendiri, ternyata Uber membangkrutkan perusahaan lokalnya.. Hmmm... mungkin karena itu Uber perlu menginvasi negara lain..
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Taxi owners sue New York City as Uber 'eviscerates' their industry
Yellow cabbies and financial backers tell court that authorities are bankrupting them by letting app-based drivers operate without the same costly licenses |
| Yellow cab owners are suing New York City for letting Uber operate. Photograph: Bo Zaunders/Corbis
New York taxi owners and the lenders behind some of them are suing New York City and its Taxi and Limousine Commission, saying the proliferation of Uber is destroying their businesses and threatening their livelihoods.
The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court accuses the defendants of violating yellow cab drivers’ exclusive right to pick up passengers on the street by letting Uber drivers pick up millions of passengers who use smartphones to hail rides.
According to the complaint, the number of Uber rides in the “core” of Manhattan increased by 3.82 million from April to June 2015 compared with a year earlier, while medallion cab pickups fell by 3.83 million.
They said this had driven down the value of medallions, which yellow cab drivers need to operate, by 40% from a peak exceeding $1m and caused more defaults. The Uber drivers, meanwhile, face fewer regulatory burdens.
The complaint says Uber’s rise contributed to the 22 July bankruptcy of 22 companies run by taxi magnate Evgeny Freidman, and the state’s 18 September seizure of Montauk Credit Union, which specialized in medallion loans, the complaint said.
“Defendants’ deliberate evisceration of medallion taxicab hail exclusivity, and their ongoing arbitrary, disparate regulatory treatment of the medallion taxicab industry, has and continues to inflict catastrophic harm on this once iconic industry, and the tens of thousands of hardworking men and women that depend on it for their livelihood,” the complaint says.
The Taxi and Limousine Commission referred requests for comment to the city’s law department. Nick Paolucci, a spokesman there, said the city would review the complaint.
Plaintiffs include the Melrose, Progressive and Lomto Federal credit unions, which said they have made more than 4,600 medallion loans worth over $2.4bn.
Other plaintiffs include individual medallion owners, as well as the Taxi Medallion Owner Driver Association Inc and League of Mutual Taxi Owners Inc, which said that together they represent about 4,000 medallion owners.
The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, including for alleged violations of cab drivers’ property and equal protection rights under the US constitution.
It also seeks to ease cab drivers’ regulatory burdens, including a requirement that half of their cabs be accessible to disabled people by 2020.
In September a state judge in Queens county dismissed a lawsuit by the credit union seeking to stop the city from supporting Uber’s expansion
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