About Us

Union Cab is a Worker Cooperative. Since day one, we have operated as a democratic workplace with one member/one vote. A board of directors consisting of an elected group of drivers, mechanics and dispatchers governs Union Cab. We believe that our structure helps customers have a voice at all levels of our organization. In celebration of the Cooperative Movement, we encourage you to visit the area's cooperatives and see the Cooperative difference for yourself.

Union Cab was founded in 1979 by a group of drivers, dispatchers and mechanics after a failed labor struggle against Checker Cab. The history of Union Cab began almost ten years before our first fare during the early 1970's when economic and social conditions in Madison were in a state of constant change. The same movement that created the Teacher's Assistant Association, Memorial Union Labor Organization, WORT-FM and the food coops (Mifflin St and Willy St) created the environment for Union Cab.

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