SF cabbies closer to becoming an affiliated union
A new taxi union in San Francisco is well on its way to getting enough members on board to become an official affiliate of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
At the San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance's meeting on Sept. 9, about 350 cab drivers signed up and paid their dues, and the next day about 40 more joined, leaving the union about 100 paid members away from joining the AFL-CIO network. Union members say the numbers are estimates because they have been receiving pledge forms and payments daily and are backed up in manually entering them into their database.
Based on hundreds more pledge forms from drivers indicating they intend to pay dues, the designation could occur by mid-October, said Beth Powder, a union board member and driver and dispatcher for DeSoto Cab Co. And they're not stopping there. The union's goal is to have 1,000 paid members by December.
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