The Tennessee Drivers Union met with six Nashville Metro Council members and a delegate from the mayor’s office Tuesday night at the Glencliff United Methodist Church to discuss improvements to working conditions for rideshare and taxi drivers.
Roughly 90 Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers, members of the newly-formed Tennessee Drivers Union, marched down Nashville’s Broadway Sept. 13 as part of their series of strikes that began Aug. 30.
Emmett Nelson Lyons Jr., a 42-year old Uber driver, was indicted on March 15 by the Rutherford County Grand Jury on aggravated rape and rape charges.
According to the police report, Lyons was arrested...
