Uber Drawing Flak From Twitterati For ‘Breaking’ Airport Strike Against ‘Muslim Ban’

#DeleteUber is trending on Twitter for allegedly providing service to customers, ignoring a strike called by taxi drivers at JFK airport to protest President Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’.

The online transportation network is drawing flak from furious customers who have taken to Twitter threatening to scrap the ridesharing app after reports said that Uber drivers ‘broke’ the strike staged by The New York Taxi Alliance. They had announced a one-hour work stoppage at JFK airport on Saturday evening as protesters called for immigrants, detained on the back of Trump’s executive order banning US entry to citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, to be released.

However, many Twitter users noticed that Uber drivers were arriving at the airport to pick up passengers during the designated strike time, 6pm to 7pm, and took to the social media site to denounce the company’s actions.

The company was accused of exploiting the situation when it took to Twitter to say they had turned off surge pricing at JFK airport, and subsequently tried to explain that it was not their intention to break the strike. But nothing could calm the customers with some of them claiming that have deleted the app and planning to switch loyalties to ride-sharing competitor Lyft, which is reaping the benefits of the Uber meltdown after condemning the travel ban and pledging $1 million in donations over the next four years to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

This also brought into the picture Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, a member of Trump’s economic advisory group. While executives from other tech companies, including Facebook and Google, criticized Trump’s travel ban, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick gave a more guarded response. However, he said he would raise the issue at President Trump’s first business advisory group meeting on Friday.