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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai
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Last week, New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission voted to institute what is likely the country’s first wage standard for app-based drivers at companies like Uber and Lyft. The decision came as a result of organizing by New York’s drivers, and we are joined by one of the people who made it happen, Bhairavi Desai of the New York City Taxi Worker Alliance. She tells us what it will mean in real terms for NYC Uber, Lyft, and other app-based drivers as well as New York’s yellow cab drivers.
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