Taxi drivers are angry over being tricked by the Taxi and Limousine Commission and the NOT TAXI DRIVER UNION called Taxi Workers Alliance into believing that the new six cents a ride charge being taken away from them every time they hit their taxi meters was going to buy them medical insurance under Obamacare. What it is buying is a paid staff to " counsel" the drivers and "help" to understand Obamacare. The plan also offers !!help looking for low cost legal assistance againsst tickets given by David Yassky's Taxi and Limousine Commission and the racist anti immigrant NYPD cops. This plan is a cruel joke that is payoff for Bharavi Desai , who never won a union election for her turning against the drivers and helping Bloomberg get his thousands of green taxis to take the food out of our childrens' mouths. This six hundred dollar a year Bloomberg,/ Yassky/ Desai rip off adds insult to injury.
The Taxi Workers Alliance long ago fought for taxi drivers. Those days are over and long gone.
Desai claims to have 17,000 members. Really? You sure you don't mean 17 members?
Desai's organization has no lawful authority to negotiate for drivers. For one thong under the lsw the drivers are independent contractors who have no right to collective bargaining. This is why the old taxi driver union is dead. We need this law to be changed but for now that is the law..If Yassky and Bloomberg really want to help us why not campaign to make us legal employees again? No doubt Yassky will soon be joining a high power law firm and Bloomberg could finance the campaign with what he spends in an ordinary week end. No, they want to double the number of taxis and pave the way for outfits like Hailo and Uber to eventually erase taxi drivers as a job classification. And Desai is helping them with all of it.
We need to go to the campaign headquarters of Bill deBlasio, who we already know will be the next mayor snd make it clear to him that we expect him to give us our six cents back. If enough of us agree we van plan a protest soon. I am also investigating the possibility of a law suit for us to get our money back.
