DC Taxi Drivers Organize
Wednesday, October 30, 2013(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
DC
taxi drivers
chanted "We will win! We will win!" at yesterday's first meeting of
the Washington DC Taxi Operators Association, which formalized its affiliation
with Teamsters Local Union 922. “We need our rights and our association with
Local 922 will give us our rights,” said driver Mohamud Samantar. “Do
you
believe in justice?” Local 922 President Ferline Buie asked the drivers
crowded
into Local 639’s huge union hall. “It's time you received the respect and
dignity you deserve!” More than a thousand taxi drivers have already signed
up
to join the association, reports the Teamsters, "which is being created to
give the more than 6,000 cab drivers in Washington, who are independent owner-
or lease-operators, a united, collective voice for positive change in their
industry." -
photo courtesy Teamsters