[JKCalhoun]

Someone should write a "Gig Striker" app (or web site) for mobile phones.

When you sign on you select the company you work for and have access to group chats, forums (by region?). If a thread gets going on striking, the word can be put out on the app and all Uber drivers, just to pick an arbitrary example, refuse to accept calls for one day (again, as an example).

It would be an interesting experiment and tell us a little more about the world and economy we live in today.

[nativeit]

I’ve got a brilliant idea! What if, hear me out, we had some kind of united alliance of workers, and they could do things like leverage their collective labor power to negotiate better working conditions and/or pay? We might call them something, let’s say “unions”, and we could even setup some sort of National Labor Relations Board to ensure fair access to them, and to help settle disputes? Then we might get some of the things we need, even without resorting to labor strikes, which are disruptive and expensive to everyone on all sides.

Surely this is possible, and companies like Uber haven’t been sandbagging and poisoning the well for decades?

[nativeit]

I bet it’d be so popular, we would set aside a whole Federal holiday to commemorate all of the people who fought, and/or died, to win these basic labor protections 100-years ago! We’ll call it “Labor Day” and everyone will eat hot dogs while totally not spacing on the fact that they even enjoy “holidays” at all due to these very fights.

[aranelsurion]

That sounds like a union plus mobile app and minus legal protections, or am I getting the idea wrong?