Bhairavi Desai's guest appearances

Bhairavi Desai

Belabored

The Laura Flanders Show

Indy Audio

Heather McGhee

Ravi Ragbir

Jesse Hagopian

Bernie Sanders

Nathan Schneider

Chris Stewart

Jeff Sessions

Brian Jones

Johann Hari

Naomi Klein

Tony Kushner

Boots Riley

Laverne Cox

Raul Midón

Eileen Myles

OwlTail

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.

Bhairavi Desai Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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.

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 <a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-podcast-166-raises-for-uber-and-lyft-drivers-with-bhairavi-desai/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dissent Magazine</a>.

Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai

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. 

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.

Uber: Wal-Mart on Wheels? - Bhairavi Desai on #GRITtv