(Source: Teamster Nation, October 31, 2013)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A thousand Washington, D.C., taxi drivers, angry about expensive and unfair regulation, are banding together with Teamsters Local 922 in a new way of organizing workers.
For their first formal meeting, the drivers crowded into the union hall on Tuesday and packed the parking lot, listening to the proceedings on a loudspeaker.
The drivers are independent, so they can’t join the Teamsters in the traditional way. What they can do — and did — is form a dues-paying association so together they can oppose costly and unfair regulations from the local taxi commission. Washington state taxi drivers did the same thing last year. It’s part of a national alt-labor movement that includes fast food workers, Walmart workers and farmworkers.
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