Uber UK strike: users urged not to cross 'digital picket line'

Public asked not to use app during drivers' strike, which follows last week's McStrike in push to unionise gig economy

Uber customers have been urged not to cross a "digital picket line" as British drivers with the app-based service staged their first coordinated national strike.

Organisers of the 24-hour strike, which started at lunchtime on Tuesday - the latest part of a push to unionise the so-called gig economy - said many drivers logged off the app and stayed at home, while hundreds staged rallies outside the Uber offices in London, Birmingham and Nottingham.