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I do sympathise with the taxi drivers at the airport who have spent years learning the knowledge. It's a disgrace that a service can be replaced by a substandard service. I call it substandard because the drivers don't have to do the knowledge. It is my opinion that whether you are to be a taxi driver or a PH driver you should have to do a knowledge test for the area that you intend to work.

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Tell me Toots ..... is there a knowledge test in Tootsville or is this the knowledge you have to learn in Tootsville;

The Tootsville Knowledge

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The similarities are amazing I earn peanuts too

You're so funny I nearly fell off my chair

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Hot off the press.

B.A.A are now reconsidering after all the trade bodies objected, and Bob Crowe held a meeting down there.

Space - Watch.

Can't see Mr Griffen letting BAA mess him around, even if at times he does deserve it.

Allegedly.

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Seems they are now all falling over each other to grab the credit.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpres ... _V5DX2JqEw

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I don't think the Griffens will give up the fight that easily.

But at least it's shown B.A.A out feelings, as if they did'nt know them before. They seem to forget taxis pay them £5.50 a go when they put on at the Airport.

I'm not an 'Airport Cabbie', but I think out of all of this, they will have to seriously look at the attitude of the few who take liberties with out of area jobs or turn up looking like a sack of sheeite.

The phone in on LBC the other morning was interesting to say the least.

Heathrow Cabs Move Delayed

2 hours ago

Plans to allow private mini cabs to offer services at Heathrow have been put back following warnings of action by the airport's traditional drivers of black taxis.

Trade union Unite had warned BAA of "major disruption" by taxi workers if they went ahead with the trial of allowing two cab firms to set up in competition at some of the terminals from September.

Unite official Pete Kavanagh said he had told the airport operator that Heathrow would have been "brought to its knees" if the action had gone ahead.

Source; The Press Association

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Sorry Mr Sussex; same post as yours - didn't know.

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Better twice than not at all.

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It's all sorted, Big Bob has arrived and the lads are happy.

Not sure about the rapist comments though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uP_1rvuLkg

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Interesting articles from the Independent, especially the one about a Boris advisor who wasn't that complimentary about the black cab trade in the past.

http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/?p=537

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Steve McNamara: We'll Take Action Again If We Need To
Cabbie's view: Some minicab firms had requested reserve parking at Heathrow and would have had a kiosk

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

If you want to hire a taxi, you can walk out of the airport to a rank, and hire one. If, on the other hand, you want to use a private hire vehicle, you can phone up and book one. That's how it is, that's how it's always been and no one has ever had a problem with that.

We were concerned that what was being mooted at Heathrow would have meant this was no longer the case. Some minicab firms had requested reserve parking and would have had a kiosk. It would have been perfectly legal, but we were worried that this was just a first step.

We have got no problem with people using minicabs at the airport – our concerns have nothing to do with choice, as some have portrayed it. At the moment, if you walk up to the information desk at Heathrow and ask to book a minicab, they will give you 33 numbers to ring for different firms. Under the proposed scheme, there would have been two firms. So this was not for the benefit of the passenger. Consumers have a choice already.

We've had to take direct action on several occasions, and if push comes to shove, we'd do it again. But we don't want to do it. Our members go out there to work during the day to earn a living. If they turn up to block Trafalgar Square, they don't get paid. They don't do it unless they absolutely have to.

Many people choose to book a mini-cab and good luck to them. We're not denying people choice. Common sense has prevailed here, which everyone should be pleased to see.

Steve McNamara is a spokesman for the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association

Source; independent.co.uk

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Black Cab Revolution, Its A Battle, "who is up for it"?
The RMT promises to fight for black cabbies in London, the war begins and the fight is long

14th July 2009

Editorial

If ever a day will be remembered by taxi-cab drivers it must surely be the day when Bob Crow the General Secretary of the Rail Maritime & Transport Union (RMT) turned up at Heathrow airport and spoke with passion, conviction and sense by informing those present they have been badly led over recent years. The present crop of trade representatives just don’t seem to have the ability or know how to solve the many problems the trade faces.

The vast majority of taxi-cab drivers belong to no organisation or union and the licensing authority choose not to keep people informed of any major changes that are being considered or have taken place. Instead taxi-cab drivers hear second or third hand and by then a rumour mill will have altered a message and all lines of communication become a grapevine that can neither be believed nor written off. Well at long last large numbers of drivers finally woke up to the news that one transport a part of Radio Taxis Group intended to place mini-cabs within terminal five of Heathrow airport. It wasn’t good enough for these ex taxi-cab drivers to book or supply mini-cabs in competition with London’s taxi-cabs they now seek or sought to place mini-cabs within the confines of the airport which may well have constituted a rank. This action taken by the managers of Radio Taxis Group seems to have had the opposite affect because it has finally woken the self employed up and made many of them question the representation they presently receive from whatever group they happen to be a member of.

I have joined the RMT and many may ask why but the answer is simple, they are a bona fide trade union and not an association operating under friendly society rules but try to act like a union. They offer a good range of benefits ranging from a credit union to 24 hour legal cover and they meet or should I say the branch meets monthly where the membership decide to set sensible policy in a democratic manner.

Bob Crow though read this trade correctly, we have been led badly but now we have real choice for you can join a real trade union that is prepared to stand up for the hard earned rights we all earned whilst on the knowledge or you can join any one of the others and carry on as we are. When was the last time a leader of any of our trade bodies stood on stage let alone a table and addressed a large gathering of individual drivers? Yet at the drop of a hat Bob Crow spoke, fielded questions and gave us all a very honest answer to the state of our trade.

I urge you all to join the RMT London Taxi-cab branch and play a full role in your future, for if you leave it to the lazy and apathetic it may well be too late...

Source; The London Daily News - thelondondailynews.com

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