Protecting Taxi Workers & San Francisco Consumers: Medallion Transferability and Proposition K
Executive Summary
On January 12, 2009, Mayor Gavin Newsom, who has long publicly supported Proposition K, announced a budget proposal to overturn it and make the city’s taxi medallions transferable, thereby generating income for the city. Labor rights organizers, consumer advocates, and medallion holders oppose the Mayor’s proposal, and believe that for the benefit of consumers and workers, San Francisco taxi medallions should remain the property of the people of San Francisco. They should remain nontransferable, issued to experienced, working taxi drivers only. Mayor Newsom and the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency should honor the Mayor’s earlier promise to protect voter-mandated Proposition K.1 The city’s budget crisis should not be fixed on the backs of hard working, largely immigrant laborers.
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On January 12, 2009, Mayor Gavin Newsom, who has long publicly supported Proposition K, announced a budget proposal to overturn it and make the city’s taxi medallions transferable, thereby generating income for the city. Labor rights organizers, consumer advocates, and medallion holders oppose the Mayor’s proposal, and believe that for the benefit of consumers and workers, San Francisco taxi medallions should remain the property of the people of San Francisco. They should remain nontransferable, issued to experienced, working taxi drivers only. Mayor Newsom and the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency should honor the Mayor’s earlier promise to protect voter-mandated Proposition K.1 The city’s budget crisis should not be fixed on the backs of hard working, largely immigrant laborers.
To read the entire document please click here.
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