A federal appeals court in San Francisco has dealt a blow to Uber drivers, ruling that the drivers are unable to group together for purposes of a class action lawsuit to fight for better pay and benefits. The decision doesn’t come as a surprise, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court gave more power to employers in May, forcing workers to file for individual arbitration rather than class action lawsuits. A lawyer for the drivers noted that thousands of drivers have already signed up for individual arbitration, and that if “Uber wants to resolve these disputes one by one, we are ready to do that -- one by one.”
See Joel Rosenblatt and Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg, September 25, 2018