Location: Denver, Colorado
Industry: Taxi
Number of employees: 250
Became employee owned: 2008

From the company

• http://www.uniontaxidenver.net/about/

Learn more

• Westword – DIA Decision Could Change the Taxi Industry in Denver (2017)
• Denver Post – Uber and Lyft haven’t run taxis off in Denver, but that could change (2016)
• The Nation – Denver Taxi Drivers Are Turning Uber’s Disruption on Its Head (2016)
• DAWI – Taxi Industry Profile (2015)
• Fast Company – Taxis Unite: Denver Taxi Drivers Are Forming Their Own Cooperatives (2015)
• Shareable – Cabby-owned Taxi Cooperatives on the Rise (2015)
• Yes – What If Uber Were a Unionized, Worker-Owned Co-Op? These Denver Cabbies Are Making It Happen (2015)
• Labor Notes – Denver’s Immigrant Taxi Drivers Build Unionized Workers Co-op (2014)
• Denver Post – Bidding for the Drivers Seat (2008)

Research

• Borowiak and Ji – Taxi co‐ops versus Uber: Struggles for workplace democracy in the sharing economy (2019)
• Ji – Limitations of Business Unionism and Co-Op Conservatism (2016)
• Ji – Reform or Revolution Union Cooperative Partnerships in the U.S and South Korea (2016)

 

Employee Owned Small Businesses in Colorado

Employee Owned Small Businesses in the Taxi Industry