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National Taxi Workers' Alliance : ウィキペディア英語版 | National Taxi Workers' Alliance
National Taxi Workers’ Alliance (NTWA) is a United States labor union that was founded in February 1998 by organizers in New York City, as the New York Taxi Workers’ Alliance. On August 3, 2011, the NTWA made history when it became the 57th affiliate of the AFL-CIO. NTWA is the first non-traditional workforce made up of independent contractors who don’t even work for an hourly wage to be granted membership into the AFL-CIO, the oldest labor federation in the country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home Page of New York Taxi Workers Alliance )〕 The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO voted unanimously “to include the NTWA into the house of labor with a national unionize taxi drivers throughout the United States”.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bhairavi Desai Taxi Workers Alliance Elected AFL-CIO Executive Council )〕 The union is made up of 200,000 taxi workers operating 100,000 vehicles serving 1 billion riders per year. NTWA is committed to a vision of labor organizing that is multi-ethnic, multi-generational that fights for labor justice. Through strategic national campaigns, capacity building, and comprehensive research on labor issues, NTWA strives to raise awareness and demand justice on critical issues such as protection on the job, reasonable wages and benefits, legal rights, and dignity for all unionized taxi cab drivers in their two local chapters. ==Origins of the union== The National Taxi Workers’ Alliance emerged from the organizing efforts of the founding member, Bhairavi Desai. Desai founded the NTWA four years after graduating from Rutgers. In May 1998 Desai organized the first taxi workers strike to occur in New York City in 30 years. Over 90 percent of the taxi drivers joined the strike with a demonstration of 2,000 yellow cabs lined up at 14th Street and Avenue D. Forty thousand drivers parked their taxis and refused to work to protest the city policing of the their industry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bhairavi Desai Taxi Workers Alliance Elected AFL-CIO Executive Council )〕 In February 1998, Desai and other organizers founded the New York Taxi Workers’ Alliance.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PUBLIC LIVES; An Unlikely Organizer as Cabdrivers United )〕 During the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention, Bhairavi Desai, the Executive Director of the Alliance was elected to the AFL-CIO Executive Council.
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