Union City Radio’s Chris Garlock and the Employment Justice Center’s Hannah Kane discuss worker rights with local activists/organizers and take listener calls.
Today's guests are Jon Liss, Executive Director and co-founder of New Virginia Majority, and Daniel Berhane, a taxi driver in Northern Virginia. New Virginia Majority is a group working to transform Virginia by organizing communities of color, women, working people, LGBTs, youth and progressive people. Jon has spent more than 30 years working for racial and gender justice with low-income tenants and workers in Northern Virginia. In the 1980s, Jon was an elected leader of a taxi drivers association. Daniel Berhane is a taxi driver in Northern Virginia. He has worked at the local and state levels to organize fellow taxi drivers in efforts to create a fair regulatory process for driving services like Uber and Lyft.
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