NYC Taxi Drivers Caravan to Albany to Protect Full-Time Jobs with Bhairavi Desai, Ex. Dir. NY Taxi Workers Alliance
A traffic jam of taxicabs circled the Capitol in Albany to put the brakes on legislation sponsored by ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, which allow people to pick up passengers in their own cars. NYC would be required to accept drop-offs by Uber and Lyft drivers with lower standards than licensed NYC taxi and for-hire-vehicle drivers and there would be no way to enforce regulations against these drivers from cruising through NYC picking up illegal fares. The Taxi Workers Alliance says the legislation would lead to unsafe unregulated cars acting as taxis and would lead to a decrease in collectable tax revenue. Desai says that if the legislation passes "riders will lose all kinds of protection -safety, insurance, accessibility, and a fair price. For drivers, this is the biggest threat to fulltime work in this industry because the companies depend on part-time labor and a saturation of vehicles. Already in NYC, we re seeing incomes drop for drivers from all the segments " yellow, green, livery and black car, including Uber drivers.
produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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