Green Taxi - Platform Co op Showcase 3
Channel: United Diversity
Date: 2019-07-15

Platform Co-op Showcase 3 - Green Taxi (16 mins)

Jason Wiener, Colorado Cooperative Developers -- The moniker “Sharing Economy” is re-branding online technology. Platform Cooperativism is re-organizing ownership of online technology. Green Taxi Cooperative, a new union taxicab cooperative is taking the Denver/Boulder metro market by storm. Green Taxi’s 800 driver-member-owners hail from 37 countries, collectively speak over 100 languages, have committed to union membership, and are authorized to capture up to 37% of the Denver/Boulder metro taxicab market. Green Taxi is set to become Colorado’s largest taxicab company, and the nation’s largest taxicab Co-op and second largest worker cooperative. Their app has not only the convenience and functionality of über/Lyft’s, it does much more: it shares 100% ownership among its member-owners. Green Taxi’s market entrance has raised hackles from both the incumbent monopoly-privileged taxicab companies and the transportation network companies. It’s now fighting for fair access at one of the country’s busiest international airports.

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On November 11-12, 2016, the Platform Cooperativism Conference 2016 held its plenary sessions at The New School in New York City with the theme “Platform Cooperativism: Building The Cooperative Internet”.

On Day 1 an international group of policymakers discussed regulation and investment in alternative models. In the afternoon, we thought through the legal and design implications of the cooperative platform economy. On Day 2, discussions focused on global opportunities for convergence among worker resistance, unions, and cooperatives. How can online co-ops meet some of the platform economy’s challenges that the labor movement has struggled with? 

https://archive.org/details/platformcoop16/09_Platform+Co-op+Showcase+3+-+Green+Taxi.mp4


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