A New York City cabbies' group plans to stage another strike later this month to protest a new rule requiring taxi drivers to install global positioning systems and credit card machines in their cars. The 24-hour walkout by the Taxi Workers Alliance will begin at 5 a.m. on Oct. 22, and will include a lunchtime demonstration outside the Taxi & Limousine Commission in Lower Manhattan, said its executive director, Bhairavi Desai. Desai predicted thousands of drivers would participate. The group says it represents about one-fifth of the city's 44,000 licensed taxi drivers. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said that the city would be ready, but told the cabbies it was in their best financial interest to keep working.
See "NYC Cabbies Set 2nd Strike for Oct. 22", Associated Press, The New York Times, October 2, 2007