The New York Taxi Workers Alliance is a membership based not-for-profit organization fighting for the rights of NYC's 50,000+ licensed yellow taxi drivers.
Founded in 1998, NYTWA is the 16,000+ member strong union of NYC yellow taxicab drivers. We fight for justice, rights, respect and dignity for the over 50,000 licensed men and women—with 25,000 steady drivers—who labor 12-hour shifts with little pay and no benefits or protection in the city's mobile sweatshop. Our members come from every community, garage, and neighborhood.
We are the first non-collective bargaining agent member of a Central Labor Council in the USA, voted into NYC CLC in 2007. In 2011, NYTWA was chartered to build the National Taxi Workers Alliance, the 57th union of the AFL-CIO. The NTWA is the first charter for non-traditional workers since the farm workers in the 1960's, and the first one ever of independent contractors.