Brooklyn Uber Driver Challenging the ‘Joe Manchin of New York’

David Alexis, a labor organizer and former Uber driver, is running for New York State Senate in East Flatbush in hopes of unseating longtime incumbent Sen. Kevin Parker, a powerful Brooklyn Democrat who has represented the 21st District since 2003. After a year of working as an Uber driver, Alexis began organizing his fellow drivers against the rideshare company's exploitative practices. Their success led to Alexis co-founding the Drivers Cooperative, an Uber rival that has nearly 7,000 members and has become the largest co-op in the country.

Now, Alexis is vying for the Brooklyn seat and running on an ambitious pro-worker platform as part of a progressive slate of candidates backed by the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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