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The demonstrations will take place in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow today.
The App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU) organised the strike over claims workers are being unfairly dismissed while the company failed to implement a court ruling to pay waiting time.
The union has said that waiting time makes up around 40 per cent of an Uber driver's working time. Read more: Currently, the union is also in dispute over fixed price fares which it claims has led to reduced income for drivers.
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