# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses Uber's Independent Drivers Guild

1 Faculty News October 27, 2016 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg_0.jpg?itok=qy2YlnxP)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/uber-found-an-unlikely-friend-in-organized-labor) -- "The IDG isn’t a traditional union. Drivers didn’t vote for it. It has no formal collective-bargaining rights. And its very existence helps the company resist formal unionization, says [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a business professor at New York University who researches the economics of the tech industry. 'This is just them planting something in the ground that might deter more contentious forms of labor organizing,' he says."

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