{"id":28737,"date":"2018-01-02T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=28737"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:40:09","slug":"on-the-frontlines-of-the-gig-economy-organizing-taxi-workers-under-ubernomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/on-the-frontlines-of-the-gig-economy-organizing-taxi-workers-under-ubernomics\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Frontlines of the Gig Economy: Organizing Taxi Workers under Ubernomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland<br \/>\n7 pm Wednesday, May 2<br \/>\nSEIU 503 Hall, 401 SE Foster Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Eugene<br \/>\n7 p.m. Thursday, May 3<br \/>\nFord Alumni Center<br \/>\n1720 E. 13th Ave.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Featuring Bhairavi Desai, executive director and found member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28739\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/on-the-frontlines-of-the-gig-economy-organizing-taxi-workers-under-ubernomics\/bhairavi-desai\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28739\" class=\" wp-image-28739\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bhairavi-Desai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bhairavi-Desai.jpg 263w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bhairavi-Desai-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bhairavi-Desai-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bhairavi-Desai-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bhairavi Desai<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bhairavi Desai is&nbsp;executive director and founding member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. The NYTWA is a 19,000-member strong union of NYC professional drivers, uniting drivers of yellow cabs, green cars, black cars &amp; dispatched cars. Desai received the Ford Foundation\u2019s Leadership for a Changing World Award in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second annual event in the Margaret Hallock Program for Women&#8217;s Rights. Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. It is cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society and is funded in part&nbsp;by&nbsp;the&nbsp;Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.<\/p>\n<p>Both events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland 7 pm Wednesday, May 2 SEIU 503 Hall, 401 SE Foster Rd. Eugene 7 p.m. Thursday, May 3 Ford Alumni Center 1720 E. 13th Ave. Featuring Bhairavi Desai, executive director and found member of the New York Taxi Workers&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/on-the-frontlines-of-the-gig-economy-organizing-taxi-workers-under-ubernomics\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":28740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,697,105,60,44],"tags":[675,788,158,431],"class_list":["post-28737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-human-rights","category-labor","category-lorwin-lecture-series","category-public-policy","tag-bhairavi-desai","tag-taxi-workers","tag-uo","tag-wayne-morse-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32817,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28737\/revisions\/32817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}