San Jose UFCW Local 5 – People's Media Record

07_00119 | Video RAW

No Date Available | Roundtable discussion with attendees at the International Taxi Workers Alliance conference, sharing local and shared struggles across the United States topics include: gas surcharges, medallions, black cars, hybrid cars, mafia involvement and other shenanigans in buying medallions, power brokers in Silicon Valley/San Jose, company monopolies in cities and at airports, worker owned cab companies, two tier cab system that leaves many drivers behind as a second class; observational footage as dinner gets set up

07_00118 | Video RAW

No Date Available | interviews with attendees at the International Taxi Workers Alliance conference, reflecting on the conditions of their local work, and on the impact of the conference

07_00109 | Video RAW

March 19 2007 | A meeting of taxi cab drivers and representatives from various city’s taxi workers alliances, at the New York Taxi Worker’s Alliance Conference to talk about building unions and solidarity. Guest speaker Bill Fletcher gives a presentation.

07_00116 | Video RAW

March 17 2007 | Discussion about taking money from foundations and other entities as Bill Fletcher finishes his presentation; panel on struggle for drivers to be considered employees versus independent contractors, especially with regard to leasing vehicles

07_00108 | Video RAW

June 29 2005 | panel about safety for taxi workers with representatives from various unions, focus on workers who get jumped when they aren’t in the car targeted attacks vs robberies, with a specific discussion about Islamophobic attacks; discussion about access to healthcare; representatives from Detriot, New York City, Spokane, San Francisco, Philadelphia