Uber has previously acknowledged to underpaying drivers in the New York City area and to help hold the company accountable, Uber Eats programmer and driver designed the UberCheats Chrome extension.
The app lets drivers find out if they’ve been paid enough by tracking recommendations and miles traveled, but Uber has forced Google to remove it from the Chrome app store.
UberCheats creator Armin Samii concluded on Twitter that Uber had placed a fake trademark against his app and that it was soon taken down.
‘They’re arguing that people might be really upset for Uber’s result,’ Samii said in the tweet.
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UberCheats lets drivers find out if they’ve been paid enough by tracking recommendations and miles traveled, but Uber has forced Google to remove it from the Chrome app store
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Samii launched UberCheats in August 2020, along with a video that gives you an insight into what the app inspires.
He worked an hour and a half during the day and noticed that Uber had paid him $ 16.
‘I was thinking,’ There’s no way right, ‘Samii told Salon in August 2020.
‘I looked into it and found that Uber paid me for mile delivery instead of four mile delivery.’
UberCheats was launched in August 2020. Uber Eats drivers came to the new service, which showed that on average about 30% of drivers were paid before 2.5 miles
In a video, he says, after 14 emails and 126 minutes on the phone with Uber, the company admitted there was a glitch that it didn’t pay enough.
‘I’ve been around for about six hours now trying to get back four dollars and if this is a systematic issue all over Uber that all drivers are going through, then Uber to essential stealing money from their drivers, ‘Samii says in the video shared on YouTube.
After his own experience, Samii decided to create UberCheats to find out if what happened to him was a far-reaching problem.
Shortly after the Chrome extension rolled out, a flood of Uber Eats drivers shared similar experiences – about 30 percent of trips were paid around 2.5 miles on average.
However, UberCheats did not live long after seeing Uber.
In the email Samii showed Motherboard, Google forwarded the original complaint it received from Uber.
The application uses, without permission, the Uber token, a trademark owned and controlled by Uber Technologies, Inc. Any use of the Product Marks constitutes a trademark infringement under Section 32 of the Lanham Act, ‘he said.
Uber filed a fraudulent trading suit with Google, which resulted in the closure of UberCheats. Uber said it could be mistaken for its own app
‘We request that the app immediately discontinue using Uber trademarks or any other name or brand that is likely to lead users to mistakenly believe that its products or services are related to Uber or authorized by Uber. ‘
Samii has an option to recreate his service under a different name, but he told Motherboard that he ‘intends to fight this.’
In 2019, Uber was accused of changing its drivers in a new class action lawsuit filed in New York City.
According to a lawsuit filed by the New York Taxi Workers Federation, as many as 96,000 drivers could be involved in the lawsuit against Uber.
The lawsuit alleges that Uber stole millions from New York City drivers between November 2, 2013, and May 22, 2017.
Given the number of potential class action lawsuit members and the fact that more than 10 per cent of all fares have been illegally taken from each of the drivers, the total amount in dispute over $ 5million ‘, the suit reads.
‘Uber leaders are racking up millions while drivers struggle to feed their families,’ Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the Taxi Workers Federation, said in a statement.
Uber’s business model relies on exploiting vulnerable low-paid employees – including by stealing from driver pay. But over and over again, when employees fight back, we beat Uber even with their billions, ‘he continued.