https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/new-york-taxis-app-cap-uber-lyft
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance knows how to throw a punch.
On August 14, the scrappy but militant twenty-one-thousand-member union representing taxi and for-hire vehicle drivers in New York City won a landmark legislative victory establishing the country’s first cap on ride-sharing company vehicles and essentially forcing them to pay their drivers a minimum wage.
This fight pitted the Taxi Workers Alliance against corporate giants Uber and Lyft, which together employ more lobbyists than Amazon, Walmart, and Microsoft combined.
Uber alone spent $1 million between January and June of this year trying to put the brakes on the Taxi Workers Alliance’s efforts.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/new-york-taxis-app-cap-uber-lyft
