New York Taxi Workers Alliance

She’s a 64-Year-Old Taxi Driver Drowning in Medallion Debt—And She’s Fighting Back

Dorothy LeConte is part of a movement of taxi drivers demanding that the city of New York relieve their financial anguish. NEW YORK CITY—Outside the gated entrance to City Hall, a dozen yellow taxi drivers huddle under the canopy of a tent to take shelter from the pelting rain. They sit alongside a line of their sunflower-yellow parked …

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Driving ‘Mobile Sweatshops,’ Cabbies Become A New Face of Movement

Cab drivers earn as little as $4 an hour, regularly work 12-hour days six days a week, suffer debilitating work-related health problems and are mistreated and gouged by customers, city regulators and leasing companies. Yet most feel such a sense of pride and community in the occupation that they don’t even consider switching professions. This …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.