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Hackney cabbies stage strike action at council

HACKNEY taxi drivers are on strike this morning after staging a sit in at Wycombe District Council’s offices.

About 25 Hackney cab drivers marched into the council’s Queen Victoria Road HQ in High Wycombe in dispute over working and licensing arrangements.

Wycombe Private Hire Trade Association spokesman Zia Ullah said it had not been approached by the Hackney trade prior to the strike action but said the association is “sympathetic” to their cause.

The association staged a mass walk in to the council earlier this year in similar circumstances and it has not ruled out further strike action.

He said: “There wasn’t an approach to the association and we’re not actively backing it - but we share similar concerns and are certainly sympathetic to Hackney drivers.

“Our own relationship with the council is very up and down, I don’t think it will ever be easy, but following our walk in we had a number of meetings to move the relationship forward.

“We have been working together with the council and on a positive note; we are forging ahead and have outlined an action plan for the coming year, which is the way it should be for the trade, the council and the town.

“But if there are still concerns from the Hackney trade and they make a formal approach to us [over a united strike] we would listen.”

Hackney drivers are expected to return to the town centre taxi ranks at lunchtime. Private taxi firms are operating normally.

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Apparently its over rank space, certain licencing conditions and a new proposal by Wycome District Council that a good conduct certificate will be required if they are out of the country for more then three months.

A Monday morning strike will defo scare the council into submission.

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Not before they did there schools and covered the earley morning trains about 11 oclock
back in time for schools in the afternoon some strike

Probably left their cabs on the rank as well to keep their place - just like those Xmas shopping trips

They could perhaps use that to deal with the Berwick/Delta issues as well