url URL date not supplied a san francisco cabbie generally a well educated and firm opinion holding class of person has an essay about a subject near and dear to my non car owning heart why is it so damned hard to get a cab in san francisco in fact no cab company ever tells a driver to pick up anyone when you phone a cab firm in san francisco your call is treated not as an order not as a binding oral contract but simply as a request so why don t cab companies ensure that we pick you up on time or at all in a nutshell labor law states that if a cab company actually commands a driver to carry out a specific action that constitutes an employer employee relationship but if a company farms its work out to independent contractors it can rid itself of costly expenses such as disability and social security taxes it also means that the contractor drivers can t unionize link NUMBER discuss NUMBER _via camworld NUMBER _ NUMBER URL NUMBER URL NUMBER URL 