Thousands of drivers in the app-driven ride service business, principally those who work for Uber and Lyft, just can’t make ends meet—and the whole scramble has created a race-to-the-bottom in which companies impoverish the very people who bring in the cash (sound familiar?). To get an insight into the plight of such drivers, I speak […]
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Episode 105: Uber/Lyft Drivers Race-To-Bottom; Sales Taxes Rob The Poor; Wellstone Remembered
Posted on 24 October 2018.
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Episode 26: Forget ISIS—Uber Is A Greater Threat To Your Security
Posted on 19 April 2017.
Uber or Isis: Which is really a greater threat to the security of millions of people in this country, and around the world? In conversation with national taxi workers advocate Bhairavi Desai and foreign policy expert Phyllis Bennis, I make the point that, by far, the answer is Uber. ISIS is a brutal extremist gang—whose […]
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Taxi Drivers On Strike Again
Posted on 22 October 2007.
Today, I’m going to head down to a protest at noon by striking taxi drivers in New York City. You may remember that the drivers, who belong to the Taxi Workers Alliance, struck for 48 hours right after Labor Day. In today’s NY Daily News, the Alliance executive director, Bhairavi Desai, explains the main reasons […]
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