On a muggy June morning, a handful of rideshare drivers descended on Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport with stacks of red, white and blue leaflets, limp in the heat, that demanded to “end unfair deactivations.

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Uber and Lyft have been locking New York City drivers out of their apps to avoid paying millions of dollars in pay, according to a report. Rideshare app drivers have been getting locked out of the two apps – with messages that flash “unable to go online” or tell drivers to go to a busier location – for minutes or hours at a time.