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N.Y. Cabbies Stage Hunger Strike for More Aid: ‘We’re Not Backing Down’

N.Y. Cabbies Stage Hunger Strike for More Aid: ‘We’re Not Backing Down’

The New York Times
Monday, November 1, 2021 1:38 PM GMT

After exploitative loans buried taxi drivers under crushing debt, some cabbies say the city’s $65 million rescue package does not go far enough.

When Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in March a plan to spend tens of millions of dollars to help New York’s taxi drivers, many praised the move. For years, officials had stood by as cabbies were channeled into exploitative loans that crushed them under mountains of debt. Finally, it seemed, the city was fixing an injustice.

But an influential group of drivers is now urging recipients not to accept the city’s help, pressing for a more ambitious — and expensive — bailout in a fight that has escalated into a hunger strike. Bhairavi Desai, the head of the group, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, said she and a dozen others stopped eating on Oct. 20 to push the city into offering more aid.

“We’re not backing down,” Ms. Desai said.

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