Uber drivers in New York stage strikes over fare cut

New York

ON Super Bowl Sunday, a few hundred Uber drivers met in the cold in a public park in Queens, plotting to disrupt the app that thousands of New Yorkers were about to use to get in place to watch the big game.

Gathered angrily on rows of wooden benches were Uzbeks, Tajiks, Russians, Kenyans, Serbs and Bangladeshis, many of them waving handmade signs. Their placards attacked the ride-hailing service in the innumerable languages of polyglot New York. "Shame on Uber!" one announced in Spanish. "Uber Broke Our Hearts!" another said in Tibetan. Then in English: "We Made You Billionaires!" and "We Are Not Slaves!"