Brooklyn Uber Driver Challenging the ‘Joe Manchin of New York’
July 22, 2022
5,140
390
31
8.19%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
More Perfect Union Episodes Around July 22, 2022
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
5:37Now PlayingBrooklyn Uber Driver Challenging the ‘Joe Manchin of New York’
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelDavid Alexis, a labor organizer and former Uber driver, is running for New York State Senate in East Flatbush in hopes of unseating longtime incumbent Sen. Kevin Parker, a powerful Brooklyn Democrat who has represented the 21st District since 2003. After a year of working as an Uber driver, Alexis began organizing his fellow drivers against the rideshare company's exploitative practices. Their success led to Alexis co-founding the Drivers Cooperative, an Uber rival that has nearly 7,000 members and has become the largest co-op in the country.
Now, Alexis is vying for the Brooklyn seat and running on an ambitious pro-worker platform as part of a progressive slate of candidates backed by the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
-----
More Perfect Union is a new nonprofit media org with a mission to empower working people. Learn more here
Follow us on Twitter
Links & Promotions
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.