The AFL-CIO’s Embracing of Bhairavi Desai, Its New Marxist Union Boss
It starts with The Affordable Care Act – but maybe at the end of the day it’s really all about Marxism. As the National Taxi Workers Alliance (NTWA) recently became the fifty-seventh affiliate of the AFL-CIO, representing a portion of New York City cab drivers, it became the first time that independent contractors have become affiliated with America’s oldest labor federation.
As a result of this relationship the Executive Director of NTWA, Bhairavi Desai, has been elected to a seat on the AFL-CIO Executive Council. It is interesting to review who Desai is and where her interests lie. Media lauds her as a successful immigrant “organizer,” but simple research shows Desai actually an unabashed Marxist – not looking out for the worker, but trying to bring down a whole system by which these taxi drivers make their living. Under Desai’s leadership, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance which operated out of the radical New York Marxist School at the Brecht Forum from 1998 to 2003. In 2004, The Brecht Forum and the New York Marxist School listed Bhairavi Desai as a director of the group on its annual IRS filing.
The AFL-CIO’s appointment of her is promotes her Marxist ideals, and it is a continuation of the very un-American notion of class warfare. In addition, it’s flawed in its very nature. Taxi drivers make their money from those who can afford to ride with them, and Marxism seeks to make it so that there are much fewer people who can afford to use taxi services – thus putting many of them out of work if it ever came to be. So, should immigrant cab drivers work many back-breaking hours to further Marxism? Desai in interviews openly says she is “drawn to Marx”.
What is more heartbreaking is that she deceives her members. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance is poorly managed and had just $3,836 in debts – not assets - in its most recent filing with the IRS. This is the person trusted to manage America’s oldest union? Like true old fashioned communist ethics, Marxism seems to enable one to advance politically more than it does help any group of people.
Now, with that $3,836 debt, and the pain of life in Obama’s America, the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission is now forcing taxi drivers to pay 6 cents per fare to Desai’s union to “pay for tutorials on ObamaCare.” Six cents per fare seems small, but it equals about $600 per year for most hard-working drivers and $18 Million in total annually to the TWA’s coffers from about 30,000 drivers. This tax WILL NOT pay for health insurance. David Pollack, executive director of the Committee for Taxi Safety, says “it is a scam.” The TWA and Desai get the money, the drivers get access to the same free information that New York State provides to everyone else as directed under the Obamacare Federal law. It’s a redundant service intended to enrich the TWA and its Marxist leader.
Imagine a Russian émigré cab driver explaining to his family that this tax going to a Marxist union leader – sounds like the old days in the USSR.
Ms. Desai also is not concerned about the legalities or obligations of being an American. In classic class-warfare language she speaks of the “fancy halls of Congress,” and believes law makers do not have the right to impose entry rules on immigrants. She is an organizer of communist May Day Parades, and an avowed Marxist will benefit with tens of millions of dollars that she will take in under the phony guise of Obamacare; she is using the marketing power of the Affordable Care Act to con the workers she is expected to protect. The fund will not buy anyone healthcare at all.
Look no further than the Brecht Forum for an explanation of what Desai believes.
The proud America of AFL-CIO has become a radical movement for Bhairavi Desai to falsely promote a program as being part of “Obamacare” in order to steal her members’ money.
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