New York, NY – Lal Singh, a 63-year-old diabetic cab driver from Hicksville, Long Island recently returned to work after spending two weeks recuperating from a serious foot infection. Both
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The New York Times’ exposé of massive fraud and predatory loan practices in the taxi-medallion business didn’t shock the union representing yellow-cab drivers. “We’ve been sounding the alarm on the
WASHINGTON—In a memo released May 14, a National Labor Relations Board lawyer has instructed the agency to presume that Uber drivers are independent contractors and not employees entitled to minimum
NEW YORK, N.Y.—On a day when app-based drivers walked off the job in cities from Los Angeles to London, about 100 New York drivers rallied outside the Long Island City
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Not again. A Lyft driver found dead in his car in Queens March 23 is apparently the ninth suicide by a city cab driver in the last 18 months.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—A State Supreme Court judge on March 18 denied Lyft’s motion for an injunction to stop the city from enforcing its new law setting a minimum wage for
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Lines of yellow cabs oozed past Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Third Avenue offices March 6, honking their horns in polyphonic cacophony, their hoods, back-seat windows, and fenders bearing posters
NEW YORK, N.Y.—“No more suicide, no more bankruptcy,” taxi drivers chanted across the street from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan offices Feb. 26. Mohammed Mahbub, the driver leading the call-and-response chant,
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Uber is suing the City of New York in an effort to kill its limits on the number of app-based taxis allowed on the city’s streets.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—A State Supreme Court judge extended an injunction Jan. 17 against the state’s congestion-pricing surcharge on taxis and for-hire vehicles, preventing it from going into effect for another
