Podcast appearances and mentions of bhairavi desai

Executive Director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Bhairavi Desai, and NYC Taxi Owner/Driver, Richard Chow, speak to City Works host Laura Flanders about their historic campaign to alleviate the huge financial crisis faced by medallion owners.

What is Causing the Truck Driver Shortage? Truckers are the foundation of the US Economy, hauling more than 70 percent of goods coast to coast across American highways. And right now the trucking industry is short by as many as 80,000 drivers. The Takeaway takes a look at the causes and impacts of a truck driver shortage by speaking to long-haul truckers Gretchen Waters and Tierra Allen (also known as The Sassy Trucker on social media), and also Jennifer Smith, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering logistics and the supply chain, who spoke to several truck drivers in a report looking at the driver shortage.   How A 2-Week Hunger Strike By New York City Cab Drivers Lead To Expansive Debt Relief After campaigning for better debt relief from the city through a 2-week long hunger strike, taxi drivers in New York City were granted a deal that would adjust their loans. We speak with Bhairavi Desai, the president of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, about the agreement that was reached and the challenges that remain for drivers. Aging While Queer in Puerto Rico After living in Massachusetts to attend university, Wilfred Labiosa returned to his native Puerto Rico, where he established support services for the LGBTQ community similar to those he discovered in Massachusetts. Queer elders in Puerto Rico face isolation, discrimination, and depression. Wilfred discusses how his organization, Waves Ahead, is working to address these issues. For transcripts, see individual segment pages.

What is Causing the Truck Driver Shortage? Truckers are the foundation of the US Economy, hauling more than 70 percent of goods coast to coast across American highways. And right now the trucking industry is short by as many as 80,000 drivers. The Takeaway takes a look at the causes and impacts of a truck driver shortage by speaking to long-haul truckers Gretchen Waters and Tierra Allen (also known as The Sassy Trucker on social media), and also Jennifer Smith, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering logistics and the supply chain, who spoke to several truck drivers in a report looking at the driver shortage.   How A 2-Week Hunger Strike By New York City Cab Drivers Lead To Expansive Debt Relief After campaigning for better debt relief from the city through a 2-week long hunger strike, taxi drivers in New York City were granted a deal that would adjust their loans. We speak with Bhairavi Desai, the president of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, about the agreement that was reached and the challenges that remain for drivers. Aging While Queer in Puerto Rico After living in Massachusetts to attend university, Wilfred Labiosa returned to his native Puerto Rico, where he established support services for the LGBTQ community similar to those he discovered in Massachusetts. Queer elders in Puerto Rico face isolation, discrimination, and depression. Wilfred discusses how his organization, Waves Ahead, is working to address these issues. For transcripts, see individual segment pages.

Taxistas de Nueva York entran en huelga de hambre Los icónicos taxis amarillos de Nueva York se encuentran asfixiados por las deudas y por la competencia de Uber y otras plataformas de alquiler, y tras el suicidio de nueve compañeros en los últimos años, han emprendido una protesta, con huelgas de hambre, incluida para forzar a la ciudad a reducir sus cargas económicas. Hace ocho días que chóferes de estos taxis, tan vinculados a la imagen de Nueva York como la Estatua de la Libertad, dieron el paso extremo de no comer y dormir en sus vehículos, a unos metros del Ayuntamiento, a la espera de que el alcalde Bill de Blasio acepte su propuesta para reducir la deuda, que para algunos puede ser de más de 700.000 dólares por su licencia de taxi. El anterior alcalde Michael Bloomberg decidió aumentar el número de "medallones" -como se conoce a estas licencias por su aspecto , que hasta entonces habían costado entre 110.000 y 140.000 dólares, y convocó varias subastas ad hoc, en las que se infló el precio de las licencias creando una burbuja. Bloomberg decía que era como "comprar un pedacito de la Gran Manzana", lo que para los taxistas, un sector dominado por los extranjeros -y de ellos, el 40% son asiáticos- representaba "la oportunidad de vivir el sueño americano", comentó a Efe Víctor Salazar, un ecuatoriano con tres décadas al volante y una deuda de 300.000 dólares. Y mientras la deuda por el "medallón" subía, la entrada de Uber, Lyft y otras plataformas de alquiler de coches a lo largo de la pasada década puso las cosas más difíciles: inundaron las calles con sus nuevos permisos, redujeron las ganancias de los choferes "clásicos" y devaluaron el valor de los "medallones". Al llegar la pandemia, Víctor Salazar no pudo continuar pagando su "medallón" -su deuda era de unos 2.000 dólares mensuales, sin contar la gasolina y el seguro del coche , y lo perdió. Hay muchos otros casos como del de Salazar. Quadratullah Saberry, afgano, ha conducido durante tres décadas y a sus 70 años adeuda todavía 300.000 dólares, así que se ha declarado en huelga de hambre: "Tengo presión alta y diabetes, y si no como regularmente probablemente de derrumbe, pero asumo el riesgo. Nueve chóferes han muerto", recuerda. La mediática congresista Alexandra Ocasio Cortez se ha hecho eco de su caso, recordando que hace más de dos años se advirtió sobre los préstamos abusivos a los taxistas: "Se están ahogando en deudas. Y tristemente, algunos han terminado con sus vidas. Necesitan un rescate AHORA", afirmó en Twitter. QUE EL AYUNTAMIENTO SALGA GARANTE Los taxistas han propuesto que la ciudad, a la que pertenece la Comisión de Taxis y Limusinas que regula el sector, salga garante de los préstamos, que se reestructurarían a un monto principal de no más de 145.000 dólares, con pagos mensuales de 800 dólares. La propuesta cuenta con el respaldo de la delegación de Nueva York en el Congreso, entre ellos el líder demócrata en el Senado federal Chuck Schumer, que junto con Ocasio Cortez ha enviado una carta a De Blasio pidiendo el apoyo de la ciudad para los trabajadores del volante. "No dejaremos la calle hasta que se haga justicia", insistió hoy Bhairavi Desai, líder de la New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), que representa a 25.000 trabajadores, la mitad taxis amarillos, en una manifestación que contó con la presencia del Defensor del Pueblo, Jumanne Wiliams y en el que los chóferes gritaban "no más muertes" y pedían un rescate económico. Desai, también en huelga de hambre, advirtió que de no resolverse la crisis, muchos terminarán en la quiebra, perderán su único ingreso y hasta sus casas. La ciudad ha propuesto una ayuda total de 65 millones de dólares, que los taxistas consideran que es insignificante para reducir su deuda e insisten en su propuesta. "La ciudad ha creado esta crisis. Su plan (de rescate) dejaría a los conductores ganando menos del salario mínimo. Es inaceptable", afirmó el Defensor del Pueblo.

On Wednesday, Oct. 20, a group of taxi drivers in New York City with the New York Taxi Workers' Alliance began a hunger strike to demand that the city enact life-saving debt relief to workers who have been taken advantage of and squeezed to the breaking point. The infiltration of app-based rideshare services like Uber and Lyft has been disastrous for taxi workers and their industry, undercutting rates and creating a perpetual race to the bottom for everyone. On top of that, taxi drivers in New York City, many of whom are immigrants and people of color, have found themselves crushed under the weight of massive debt and are facing financial ruin. This debt stems from the artificially inflated cost of taxi medallions, the city-issued permits drivers are required to have to own a cab and pick up street hails in the city.In this urgent interview, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Mouhamadou Aliyu and Bhairavi Desai about the dire situation taxi drivers are facing and their life-or-death struggle to get City Hall to take action. Mouhamadou Aliyu is a longtime taxi owner-driver in New York City and a member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance; Bhairavi Desai is the executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.

Earlier this year, New York City announced a $65 million taxi relief fund, but medallion owners say the package doesn't go far enough. Bhairavi Desai, president and founding member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a union representing taxi drivers in New York City, joins to discuss why more aid money might be necessary to help indebted drivers.

Debt-stricken taxi drivers have entered their 17th day of a round-the-clock protest outside City Hall. They are demanding the mayor and city council cover the massive debts they incurred when the price of a taxi medallion collapsed after the City allowed Uber and Lyft to flood the streets with their own drivers who did not have to pay for medallions. We speak with Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance about how the city reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in taxi medallion sales a decade ago but has since turned its back on cab drivers, many of whom owe upwards of a half-million dollars each.

Hildalyn Hernandez Colon, Director of Policy and Strategic Partnerships at the Workers Justice Project, talks about recent victories at City Hall won by New York City's 65,000 delivery workers and the organizing that went into that among an upsurge in worker militancy across the country spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Debt-stricken taxi drivers have entered their 17th day of a round-the-clock protest outside City Hall. They are demanding the mayor and city council cover the massive debts they incurred when the price of a taxi medallion collapsed after the City allowed Uber and Lyft to flood the streets with their own drivers who did not have to pay for medallions. We speak with Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance about how the city reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in taxi medallion sales a decade ago but has since turned its back on cab drivers, many of whom owe upwards of a half-million dollars each. The Workers Unite! Film Festival — showcasing documentaries about worker struggles — returns to the big screen this week starting Friday at Cinema Village Theater in Lower Manhattan. We talk with Andrew Tilson, the festival's executive director, and two directors of the featured films at the festival, Patricia Nazario (Backstreet to the American Dream) Peter Findley (Company Town).

Sam and Emma tackle a huge last week in news, as well as what's coming down the pike in Congress, the courts, and more. They also speak with Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), to discuss NYTWA's new debt forgiveness campaign for Medallion cab drivers. Bhairavi, Sam, and Emma dive into the recent conflict around the NYC taxi company Medallion, and how after decades of the city inflating the price, making hundreds of millions, while capitalizing particularly on immigrants taking out loans, the city helped bolster Uber and Lyft's unregulated takeover of the market, with some officials even going to work for them following their job in government. Next, they take on how COVID, in particular, created a massive impending problem for Medallion taxi cab drivers, who average $550,000 in debt, which is compounded by the floundering of city policy in effectively handling this, and what the NYTWA's recent protests have entailed, as well as what they're fighting for. Emma and Sam also cover developments in a few longstanding strikes, including the St. Vincent nurses, the United Mine Workers of America strike in Alabama, and the IATSE strike among some production unions, before touching on how Biden's administration has capitalized on pre-existing Trump immigration policy with the use of Title 42. They also look forward to what progression we can see over the next couple of weeks when it comes to the bipartisan infrastructure bill and reconciliation, touching on how Democrats could ensure the raising of the debt ceiling, what Pelosi's September 27th commitment means for reconciliation, and how the recent double backing by corporate Dems could affect what policy survives the next six days. Lastly, they touch on another democratic cop-out as Chuck Schumer hides behind the parliamentarian and the Democrats' relationship to immigration policy. And in the Fun Half: Jacob from Alabama talks unions and Hurricane Ida recovery, Gregory from Oklahoma gives some updates on both his candidacy and his main opponent in his upcoming election, and the MR crew walks through the step by step one-man show that was the blueprint for Pence's election overturn attempt. 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Three New York organizers—Bhairavi Desai, Bianca Cunningham, and Valeria Treves—talk about how the labor movement can evolve to become more inclusive, powerful, and responsive to the needs of diverse working-class communities. The post Belabored Podcast #176: Talking Union in NYC appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Last week, New York established an important new pay floor for app-based drivers. Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance joins us to talk about the victory. The post Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Episode 105: 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 with Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the National Taxi Workers Alliance, and economist James Parrott from The New School. Heard the conservative rhetoric about no-income tax states being the easy street place to live? It’s the big lie—because state and local sales, property and excise taxes, which try to fill the budget gaps, are a huge burden, mostly on the not-rich. I explore the issue with Carl Davis of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy. Lastly, as I do each year as October 25th looms (tomorrow), we remember, with his own words, the late Senator Paul Wellstone, a great progressive champion, who died in a plane crash 16 years ago while running for re-election. The Robber Baron of the week is Republican U.S. Senate candidate in New Jersey Bob Hugin, a former CEO in Big Pharma. -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by international affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda.President Trump caused consternation and anger at the NATO summit this morning when he chastised allies for not spending enough on defense, and he opined that Germany was “a captive of Russia” because of a 2015 pipeline deal between those two countries. This kind of contention has never before been seen at a NATO heads of state meeting. Beyond Nuclear with Kevin Kamps is Loud & Clear’s regular Wednesday segment. The hosts and Kevin look at nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Today they focus on huge Obama-era regulation changes to allow far more radioactive waste in the atmosphere and on two anniversaries on July 16, the first atomic bomb blast in history (the Trinity blast of 1945), which was a test for Nagasaki, and the 1979 Uranium Tailings Spill, which primarily affected indigenous communities and was not cleaned up by industry nor was industry held accountable. Brian and John speak with Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Loud & Clear producer Nicole Roussell. Chinese government officials have condemned the Trump administration’s move to prepare a new round of tariffs targeting $200 billion of goods, and vowed to respond with measures of their own. How far is Trump willing to take the trade war? Brian and John speak with Pete Dolack, an activist and writer with Trade Justice New York Metro who focuses on human rights, social justice, and environmental and trade issues, and Jude Woodward, the author of the book “The US vs China: Asia's new Cold War?” The Trump Administration is cutting most of the funds previously provided to groups that help people get insurance under Obamacare and will push them to promote plans that lack the law’s benefits and protections. Mary Gerisch, an organizer and member chair of the Rights & Democracy health care justice team, joins the show. Which two companies have more lobbyists than Amazon, Microsoft, and WalMart combined? How about Uber and Lyft. The ride-sharing services have used cold, hard cash and an army of lobbyists to convince 41 state legislatures to pass laws exempting them from regulations that taxi drivers must abide by. Bhairavi Desai, the executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, joins Brian and John. Thousands of nurses, teachers, and government staff members went on strike in New Zealand yesterday for the first time in a generation. The action was taken because workers have not received a raise in nine years. Mike Treen, the national director of the Unite Union, joins the show.Rupert Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox with a net worth of $15.9 billion, has upped his bid to buy Sky News. Comcast is also competing to buy Sky. Either way, we’ll see further media consolidation in an industry already owned by billionaires. Who and how many control the media that we consume? Brian and John speak with Tim Karr, the senior director of strategy and communications at Free Press.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, a professor of history at the University of Houston and author of many books, including “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.”A few years ago, Dr. Gerald Horne wrote a book called “The Counterrevolution of 1776” in which he argues that the American Revolution was a conservative reaction to changes in the British views toward slavery. Abolitionist sentiment was running high in London, and the only way to keep Africans enslaved in the colonies was to revolt. False Profits—A Weekly Look at Wall Street and Corporate Capitalism with Daniel Sankey, L&C’s regular Tuesday economic segment, focuses on big banks getting big breaks and what society could do with extra wealth from automation, versus what companies will do with it—namely, lay off workers. Financial policy analyst Daniel Sankey joins the show. A new study shows that Uber and Lyft drivers are being pushed into poverty by the companies that force them to work long hours with no breaks and no benefits, oftentimes for less than the minimum wage. The National Employment Law Project and the Partnership for Working Families found that Uber and Lyft bullied legislators in the vast majority of states to overrule regulations and strip drivers of their rights. Brian and John speak with Bhairavi Desai, executive director of New York Taxi Workers Alliance.A year ago, big tech company Google said it would stop letting outside parties scan gmail inboxes for data to use for advertising. But according to a Wall Street Journal investigation, it hasn’t. Dr. Robert Epstein, the Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, joins the show.US hospitals have experienced a medicine crisis over the past few years. One of the primary drug manufacturers, Pfizer, has not been producing cheap older drugs like morphine with the regularity that hospitalized people need—but they have been raising their prices on big money-makers like Viagra and blood pressure medication. So why can’t hospitals get what they need? Dr. Margaret Flowers, the co-coordinator of Popular Resistance at PopularResistance.org, joins Brian and John.German Chancellor Angela Merkel has completely reversed course to save her coalition. She’s fully capitulated to Interior Minister Horst Seehofer’s demands to hold in custody migrants who have applied elsewhere for asylum. What does this mean for European migration and for her hobbled government? Berlin activist and journalist Diani Baretto joins the show.As you’ve heard on this show and elsewhere for several days, leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the Mexican presidential election this past Sunday. Polls showed that he was in the lead by 20 and 30 points, and he has been popular in the country for decades. But some media and political analysts are delivering credit for his win to none other than...Russia. How DID Andres Manuelovich get elected? Brian and John speak with Alex Rubinstein, Sputnik news analyst and journalist whose work is on Twitter at @RealAlexRubi.

Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, writes about the current struggle yellow cab drivers in NYC are going through. To support this podcast and our publication, it´s as easy as visiting our Patreon page and becoming a monthly subscriber. bit.ly/2xsDpRQ To read Bhairavi's full article go to https://bit.ly/2oOltzi

Episode 26: 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, Jonathan makes the point that, by far, the answer is Uber. ISIS is a brutal extremist gang—whose rise, people conveniently forget, was a direct result of U.S. foreign policy—but its capability to hurt millions of people comes nowhere near the reach of Uber's model of "corporate terrorism", which is a threat to the standard of living of most Americans. Our Robber Baron of the week is Rupert Murdoch.

The US media has been breathlessly reporting the spin about Uber, the $40 billion dollar car service that until recently was called "ride-sharing" by the AP. Bhairavi Desai, co-founder and Director of the Taxi Workers Alliance, presents the other side - including Uber and similar services' effects on the California cab industry, and workers' rights and the changing face of "work" in the US. Plus, Esther Cooper Jackson, creator of Freedomways, on fighting for equal rights for almost a century. 

Hi I'm Laura Flanders of GRITtv, for the Progressive Voices channel on Tune-In The global newswire Associated Press announced this January that it will no longer refer to the app-based cab-hail service Uber, as “ride-sharing.” The move follows criticism that services like Uber and Lyft are very far from sharing; they are taking more than they're giving. That's certainly the view of Bhairavi Desai co-founder and director of the National Taxi Worker's Alliance. Desai told GRITtv this week that while it characterizes itself as an innovative disruption, Uber's more like Walmart on wheels. They're not democratizing the workplace, she said, they're de-regulating it or rather, re-regulating it, to the benefit of app-owning bosses and the detriment of drivers. Minimum guaranteed wages, health and safety insurance, and the chance to negotiate collectively. Taxi drivers fought decades for those protections, said Desai. Now in comes Uber. Behind the sharing spin, what's it really want? She says, “It's nothing less than the reorganization of the economy.” The worker contributes the car, the gas, the training and the risk, and in return for being called an “independent contractor” they make more or less the same money as they would working for a fleet. They make pick up more rides, more quickly, and drive more hours, but that should raise real safety concerns. Doug Henwood reporting for The Nation found taxi drivers in Chicago and Los Angeles making around $12 hour after expenses – about the same as other drivers. Former driver Jon Liss writes that “for all the convenience Uber may offer its users, one of its primary byproducts has been the degradation of working class jobs that once generated a living wage.” Nor, as Liss points out, does Uber have any responsibility to serve everyone, only the smartphone clutching, credit-card swiping few, even as prices soar and taxi supply shrinks for the rest of us. That said, the status quo wasn't perfect for taxi drivers pre-Uber, any more than it was for part-timers pre Wal-Mart. The bosses' pitch – that workers can be partners, sharers, associates (the euphemisms mount) works not only because people are desperate, but also because being a worker's never brought with it the economic power or cultural pride in race-to-the-top America that it has in countries where unions have been less devastated. But Uber et al better watch out. Today, the Taxi Workers are at work on their own app. And as we report in our latest documentary, Own the Change, hundreds of taxi drivers are becoming worker-owners by creating their own worker-owned companies – like Madison's Union Cab, a co-operative. Redesign the economy? Two can play at that game. As Desai says, “I love a good disruption but I love it in favor or poor people and working people.” You can watch my interview with Bhairavi Desai and see Own the Change at GRITtv.org and find out more there about the syndication of The Laura Flanders Show on TeleSUR English and LINKtv. To tell me what you think, write to: Laura@GRITtv.org.