Gotham Yellow LLC (my bosses) plus Citibank vs. New York Taxi Workers Alliance (wannabe union).

A while back I posted about being coerced at work to give up my right to daily paydays as enshrined  in a government distributed document about  the rights of per shift fleet taxi drivers. It isn't in dispute that Gotham had all their drivers sign "contracts" waiving this right the alternative being to leave the premises and forget about driving for Gotham Yellow.

This is pretty open and shut rule violation. The union or wannabe union which I have big problems with is urging individual drivers to complain to the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

I have a different idea. How about David Yassky make a phone call and remind Gotham that the rules apply to them? The wannabe union just got awarded a chunk of the taxi drivers' tips by Mr. Yassky who lately has been strewing rose petals in Ms. Dessai's footsteps and vice versa.

Drivers don't like the Citibank debit cards with their transaction fees but for whatever reason might be afraid ton step forward. The wannabe union is not widely known or trusted
So bookmark this site and find out what happens. My personal guess is that this drags on past deBlasio's swearing in as mayor and his taxi commissioner will retroactively make kosher the debit cards.

About the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and politics as usual.

https://nytwa.org/

If this doesn't beat all. Here is Ms. Desai, our aspiring fearless leader leading from behind. Objecting to Bill deBlasio,s promise to fire taxi czar David Yassky. Ms. Desai is the same one who suddenly endorsed Mike Bloomberg's taxi industry destruction plan after opposing it along with every conscious taxi driver and taxi medallion honcho. Ms. Desai was promised something, that's a bet.

My personal bet is she was promised or sort of almost promised the administration of the yet unborn taxi benefit plan. At six cents a trip it won't buy much in benefits, probably stuff like email reminders to go get drug tested, maybe a scholarship for one or two deserving taxi drivers' kids. What it will do is support a nice little office rental and a staff maybe of worthy ex taxi drivers.

So I am guessing the six cent plan will get born before deBlasio gets sworn in as mayor. Then we shall learn who the lucky fund administrator will be.

As for organizing a taxi driver union may I suggest visiting some taxi garages and maybe an airport taxilot with some signs and banners enumerating the rights the unikn is ready to go to the mat for right now. Why with taxi drivrr best buddy still in charge you might be able to make something happen! Like get the asbestos out of the JFK drivers restroom.