The Phantom Cab Driver Phites Back
Thursday, July 30, 2009
The Application Hearing Process - A New Set of Rules?
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The July 24, 2009 hearings for medallion applicants turned out to be a radical event. In the old days (before the MTA took over), a medallio...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Independent Contract - In Sum
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Over the last 30 years, the law has pretty much caught up with the Independent Contract. A series of court cases have given drivers Workers ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Independent Contract - 5
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I think of "tremendous minds" as belonging to people like Verdi or Goethe or Einstein who create beauty or expand our knowledge o...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Independent Contract - 4
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I should emphasize again that, tipping etc aside, drivers were treated better at most other companies than at Yellow. Despite being much sma...
The Independent Contract - 3
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While conditions at Yellow cab were the worst, there was no taxi company you could work for without receiving some form of abuse . After a c...
Monday, July 20, 2009
The Independent Contract - 2
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The drivers at Yellow expressed their fear and their angst with a series of saying: "You've got a job at Yellow Cab as long Steele ...
Saturday, July 18, 2009
In the Trenches with the Independent Contract - 1
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I was just showing up for my first day of cab driving in 1983. A middle-aged Eskimo woman stood outside the Yellow Cab lot at 8th and Towns...
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