Union Square Award for Grassroots Activism

Bhairavi Desai and a committee of taxi workers formed the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) in February 1998 as an independent membership organization to address working conditions, work protection and other concerns. New York City taxi drivers represent more than 90 countries and work 12 hours a day, six and seven days a week in the most dangerous job in the United States – more cabbies are killed per capita than police.
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