The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a group of 7,000 taxi drivers, is not a labor union, but in an unusual move, the New York City Central Labor Council will vote tomorrow to make the alliance its newest member. Ed Ott, the labor council?s executive director, said his group was eager for the taxi drivers to join because organized labor wants to strengthen its ties with immigrant workers? groups.
See "Taxi Workers? Alliance May Join Labor Group", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, November 13, 2006