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Boycott threat by city's black cab drivers


CAB drivers are threatening to boycott Glasgow's biggest taxi firm.

They are furious at a controversial decision by black cab owners to force them to pay an annual registration fee of £50 plus VAT for use of a radio system operated by Glasgow Taxis.

Hundreds of drivers are set to vent their anger at a meeting being held by Unite Scotland at the city's Thistle Hotel in Cambridge Street tonight.

Union official Drew Connelly, who represents the taxi industry today, warned that drivers will be given three options to consider.

He said: "It's beyond belief that Glasgow Taxi's executives, who know full well the conditions drivers are facing, have imposed this cash grab without any consultation.

"Drivers are at breaking point. It's a choice between walking away from employment and joining the dole queue or increasingly slogging it out in a vicious circle of low pay and long working hours.

"Drivers contribute significantly to handsome profits for the firm and provide an important public service yet find their own earnings going downhill rapidly.

"This is unsustainable and tonight's collective response has been a long time coming."

The firm operates more than 550 'black Hacks' across the city with more than 2000 drivers some of whom have threatened to quit rather than pay the controversial fee by the deadline day of next Monday.

Mr Connelly said drivers will be given three options: ditch their opposition and pay up; call on owners to delay the payments and enter into talks; or agree a drivers' boycott.

A spokesman for the firm said: "This fee amounts to a cost of around 90p per week and provides drivers with access to a large number of key services.

"Any boycott decision would seem incredible - over the issue of less than £1 a week."

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/mobile/ne ... s.18989610

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The serfs will pay it.

how long were you one skull

I was never one of you, did I take [edited by admin] from the council or the Cab Inspector. I don't think so somehow. It was brainless and spineless individuals like you, that fu*ked the trade. No doubt about it.

I agree. They will pay it.

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serfs like Dug only know one position, and they've got to touch their toes to achieve it .

you were touching your toes a lot longer skull fact and at the end you were wanting out anyway so you thought you would go out with a bang or sorry a sizzle your my feckin hero big man you've achieved so much in your life and i fecked the trade and I'm spineless how does that work out numbskull I will stay up a wee bit later see how long it takes for you to reply go on skull see if you can stay away from the keyboard

The serfs will be salivating at the prospect of taking it up the choccy yet again.

I'm larfin my cork off.

Had the same experience with the PH lot you all know I had experience of. Times are hard. Work drops. Guys are working longer hours. One guy did a 21 and a half hour shift. Inherently unsafe.

And what did they do?

Why, they increased the fee for contracts from 7 to 10%. Despite the circuit fees. Despite the rentals. Despite the company making drivers pay for every last scratch, scrape or rubber they can.

And the serfs paid it.

Isn't it time the authorities took a look at themselves?

By denying taxi workers the right to operate their own vehicle, they are creating circumstances where the trade's robber barons can squeeze the pips out of workers, force them to worker harder and longer, and put the public at risk.

Glasgow and Edinburgh restrict taxis. They are responsible for this shecht.

BTW Private hire is unsafe for the public. Keep coming up with this nonsense for the real taxi trade, and it will be heading the same way.

The public are truly at risk now.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Raw nerve?


Do you know what it is to have dignity, Dug? You're a pseudonym on a taxi forum. No one know who the fu*k you are, and anything you say is meaningless, because you won't stand up and be counted.

It's guys like you that made me want out, Dug. The council and Cab Inspector expected me to bend over and to take it up the arse, just like you, and I couldn't do it.

They hated me, for what I stood for, and I had to be got. You, they despise and continue to wipe their feet on.

Dignity, is something you know nothing about and never will.

You're a serf, something to be treated with contempt, and as long as I know, I am nothing like you. I've achieved more than you ever have.

Now here's your chance to stand up and be counted, let's have your real name and plate number?

Aye Dug, yur no a serf.




Oh and btw, when a post is made on this forum, I get an email. It takes me, minutes to respond, especially to ars*holes like you.

I've landed a big wobbly one here you cannot resist numbskull you crack me up wish you were back in the trade it's lost without you you remind me of a wee jack Russell I used to have it had to get the last word or yelp shall I say settle down numbskull it's no good for the blood pressure..

aye whatever