San Antonio Taxi Workers Alliance

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Whether you are a taxi worker in the San Antonio, Texas metro area or a citizen who is just interested in the plight of taxi workers in the metro area, this website is dedicated to you. Join with us in the struggle to fight for what is right for the benefit of the taxi workers. As a taxi driver, you represent a cadre of professionalism and dedication unmatched in the transportation industry. You are the true ambassadors to our beautiful city. You are the first person tourists experience when they exit the airport and embark on their vacation or convention plans. When most of the city is sleeping, you are the ones who brave the challenges of taking people home safely after a night of partying and heavy drinking. When the emergency rooms call for a free ride home for one of their indigent patients, you graciously sacrifice your time and resources to take that injured one home. There is no doubt that you have the most dangerous occupation of all occupations worldwide; yet, despite the fact that you provide one of the most value-added services to our citizens and contribute, in a major way, to the success of tourism and convention business for our city, the city officials and managers of San Antonio, as well as the San Antonio International Airport management continues to promulgate a long-standing tradition of mistreatment against its taxi workers.

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SAN ANTONIO TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE

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In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer, an African American civil rights activist, said she had waited all of her life for equality, and she was just “sick and tired of being sick and tired”. She was fighting for the right of all citizens to vote. The taxi workers of San Antonio are “sick and tired of being sick and tired”. If you have been in the taxi industry a long time, whether in this city or other cities, you know you do not have equality. You are not asking the officials to agree with everything you say or want; you want to be invited to the table and given an equal and legitimate stake and say in decisions that are made which ultimately impact your life, your family, and your livelihood.

So, like Fannie Lou Hamer, you have observed and been disenfranchised too long to continue to sit back and just accept business as usual. Dr. Martin Luther King believed that the true character of a person is not where he/she stands in times of comfort and convenience, but where he/she stands in times of conflict and controversy. He said America had written a bad check to some of its citizens – a check that returned from the bank with a stamp, “Insufficient Funds”. It is time to stand up because if you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. The city of San Antonio continues to write its taxi workers a “bad check”. Click here for conventions/special events.

Lastly, Mr. Edmund Burke spoke most fervently to the plight of San Antonio taxi workers when he stated, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do nothing.” We’re not saying the city officials are “evil”, or have “evil” intent. We just want them to recognize that their actions and inactions are harmful to its taxi workers and will ultimately lead to a publicly organized stand. Taxi workers of San Antonio are “sick and tired of being sick and tired”.