STOP PRESS… READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Sitting in my taxi on Tuesday and somebody knocks on the window. I roll the window down and instead of a passenger I get a load of political rhetoric from a Scouser of all people. Now I was happy to listen to him but by the same token, I thought he should have listened to me and answered any questions I wanted to ask. Instead, as soon as I began to talk, a form was shoved through the window and I was told “just sign this”. I took the form and rolled the window back up.
When I got time I read the form, it was from the union UNITE who have only now decided to jump on the bandwagon and tell us something we already know which is about the problem of ‘cross border hiring’. I wondered if anyone else has been given this form to sign because what they seem to be saying is that the Union is going to start a petition for a change in the law. They also have an additional agenda which wasn’t made apparent and that is they are also campaigning for a ‘one tier’ system for the taxi trade. Why don’t they ask the drivers first whether they are in agreement with this and then explain what level of tariff everybody should be operating on?
The way things are at the moment is that the private hire operators are making a killing undercutting the Hackney Carriage Trade. So with a one tier system do they expect the Hackney’s to lower their tariff to that of private hire or for the private hire to increase their tariff so it’s all the same?
Why it is that meddling Unions always think they know what is best for the taxi trade without ever taking the time to talk to the drivers at the grass roots level?
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