Collective Action
Uber drivers protest Machnouk’s attacks on service
Uber drivers held an impromptu protest Thursday, a day after Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said that the popular ride-hailing app was unsafe and called on the Lebanese people to use local taxi companies instead. The minister’s remarks were made after a driver contracted with the company was named as the prime suspect in the murder of British national Rebecca Dykes.
Around 56 Uber drivers staged the Thursday morning demonstration near the Beirut Digital District building Downtown where Uber’s Lebanon offices are located.
“As an Uber driver, we demand our rights to be upheld by the state as legal and licensed drivers,” Fouad Hamwe told The Daily Star.
Date:
December 22, 2017
Actors/ Mobilising structures:
Workers group (inc.union, syndicate, etc.)
Multi-organisational field (collaboration, allies) :
N/A
Mode of Action:
Demonstration
Objective:
Protest of a policy/ governmental measure/ etc.
Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA:
Corporate grievances
Spatial characteristics:
Location on the Lebanese territory
Frequency:
One off
State response:
N/A