City taxi drivers join national labor group

The National Taxi Workers Alliance becomes the first non-
traditional labor organization to join the AFL-CIO since the
early 1960s.

By Daniel Massey @masseydaniel

Buck Ennis
www.crainsnewyork,com
October 20, 2011

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20111020/LABOR_UNIONS/111029995

 The National Taxi Workers Alliance will join the AFL-CIO as
 its first non-traditional labor organization since the early
 1960s.

A taxi worker organization that made its first splash with a
1998 strike is being welcomed Thursday into the AFL-CIO, the
largest federation of unions in the country.

The National Taxi Workers Alliance, which is not formally a
union, is the first non-traditional labor organization to
join the AFL-CIO since a farm workers group was chartered in
the early 1960s.

The alliance will launch with two chapters: its 15,000-member
flagship in New York City and a 1,200-member group in
Philadelphia. The city has more than 13,000 cabs and 49,000
drivers, so fewer than a third of drivers are alliance
members.

To read more, go to 
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20111020/LABOR_UNIONS/111029995

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