How to Beat Uber – A scrappy New York taxi drivers union is taking on Uber’s exploitative business model — and winning.
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.…