Dear fellow taxi drivers. Six cents a ride is not buying you Obamacare. It is being stolen from you!

We are being robbed by Michael Bloomberg who is giving it to the Taxi Workers Alliance who stopped fighting him and are now with him 100% against the business we work in. Just look at the green taxis - Taxi Workers Alliance FAVORS putting them on the street and it also supported 2000 more medallion taxis! They are in favor of more competition against you and still claim that they are your  union. A union protects its numbers livelihood. Taxi Workers Alliance joined the attack on your income and you are now forced to give them six cents every trip.

Medical insurance is very expensive. Obamacare helps people who do not make enough money to buy medical insurance. That is a good thing. What is wrong is when Bloomberg's friends try to trick you into believing that they are buying you Obamacare insurance or that you need to go to them - with this money of yours that Bloomberg is stealing from you every working day.

Here are people who can help you understand Obamacare and get the best insurance possible for you. The federal government  is paying several organizations to help you get Obamacare and to get the subsidy you may be entitled to.

There is no good reason for the city government to collect a tax on taxi drivers and nobody else that was not passed by the State Legislature or the City Council in order for: you to get these services.

http://nystateofhealth.gov

Community Service Society at www.cssny.org - also Unitted Way, NAACP, Catholic Church and other religious organizations  an help you get the information that you need.

It's lawsuit time! Taxi drivers to DeBlasio, Bloomberg, Yassky and Desai : Give us back our six cents!

http://pleasedontvomitinthetaxi.blogspot.com/2013/10/bloomberg-and-yassky-get-behind-taxi.html?m=1

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.