At the demonstration in New York on Wednesday, a group of about 40 people stood on the steps of City Hall holding signs with slogans like, "Killing jobs is not innovation," and, "Hey Uber, politicians may cave in, but workers strike." Bhairavi Desai, the president of the National Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents 19,000 drivers in New York, led a short press conference. "We are here to say to Uber and Lyft, to all of these app-based dispatch companies, the race to the bottom must end," began Desai, who had no microphone and had to shout to be heard. "We will not let them continue to gut our incomes. When the biggest dispatching company in New York City, with over 30,000 affiliated vehicles, starts to cut its rates, it sends a signal across the industry to cut the rates across the board." Though Uber says it is a technology company, Desai believes it is no different than any car dispatcher.