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"Uber scandal", how Joe Biden and Scholz were involved in negotiation talks with the company's boss

2022-07-11 20:57:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
"Uber scandal", how Joe Biden and Scholz were involved in negotiation
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In addition to the current president of France, Emmanuel Macron, and a former commissioner of the European Union, names such as Joe Biden, then vice president, and Olaf Scholz, who was mayor of Hamburg at the time, are also involved in the Uber scandal.

The massive leak of 124,000 documents obtained by The Guardian, known as the Uber files, reveals the questionable ethical practices that fueled the company's transformation into one of Silicon Valley's most famous exports.

Rrjedhja e informacionit për periudhën 5-vjeçare gjatë së cilës Uber drejtohej nga bashkëthemeluesi Travis Kalanick. Ky i fundit tentoi që ta fuste me zor shërbimin e taksive në qytete të ndryshme të botës, edhe pse duke shkelur ligjet dhe rregulloret e taksive në vendet përkatëse, raporton The Guardian.

Në dosje ka mesazhe mes Kalanick dhe Emmanuel Macron, të cilët e ndihmonin fshehurazi kompaninë në Francë kur ai ishte ministër i ekonomisë, duke i lejuar Uber-it akses të shpeshtë dhe të drejtpërdrejtë tek ai dhe stafi i tij.

Ndërsa, pasi kancelari gjerman, Olaf Scholz, i cili ishte kryebashkiak i Hamburgut në atë kohë, u tërhoq kundër lobistëve të Uber dhe këmbënguli për t’u paguar shoferëve një pagë minimale, një ekzekutiv u tha kolegëve se ai ishte “një komedian i vërtetë”.

When then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a supporter of Uber at the time, was late for a meeting with the company at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kalanick texted a colleague: "I asked my people to announce that every minute he's late is one minute less he'll have with me."

After meeting with Kalanick, Biden appeared to change his prepared Davos speech to refer to a CEO whose company would give millions of employees "the freedom to work as many hours as they want, for to manage their lives as they wish".

In a statement in response to the reports, Uber acknowledged "mistakes and missteps" but added that it had been transformed since 2017 under the leadership of current chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi. /CNA.al





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