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Hundreds of cabbies at Birmingham Airport forced to share one toilet



Taxi drivers say they are threatened with having £1,100-a-year contracts withdrawn if they complain about lack of facilities

Taxi drivers working at Birmingham Airport are up in arms over the lack of toilet facilities for their use with one designated facility for around 300 cabbies using the waiting ranks.

The drivers claim that, if they complain about the problem, they have been threatened with having their £1,100-a-year contracts withdrawn and banned from the site by taxi management company Airport Ranks.

The firm has now pledged new facilities are in the pipeline but drivers say the current lack of toilets is "totally unacceptable".

A driver, who asked not to be named, said: "The current toilet facilities are for the use of taxi drivers only who often have to wait on site for two to three hours for a fare in a designated waiting overflow area or car park.

"Birmingham Airport has instructed the services of taxi management company Airport Ranks who provide taxi provisions for the airport and have 300 contracted hackney carriage licensed drivers from Birmingham and Solihull.

"These drivers pay £1,100 per annum to ply for hire and to use the facilities at the airport - they provide taxis 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

"The toilet issue has been ongoing for eight months and is clearly a health hazard as food is also being sold from a a joining Portakabin. One men’s toilet for the provision of 300 drivers is clearly inadequate."

The driver claimed management had refused to upgrade the facilities for months despite several requests from drivers.

"Drivers are forced to use these facilities and, if a driver requests management to address this situation, they are threatened that their contract will not be renewed and they can no longer work at the airport site."

A spokesman for Airport Ranks said: "New welfare facilities are being developed on an adjoining site for the taxi drivers to use and we hope these will be ready in the next few weeks.

"We will remind the drivers that they are able to use the facilities in the terminal in the meantime."

source: http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/re ... ed-9188430

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George Carlin

Not a good situation - but then again paying £1100 to ply your trade isn't ideal either.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Pissed on, pissed off, pissed about and having the piss taken out of them..the Irony is the only thing they want is a piss and they can't have one..

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Complete MUGS twice over .............still they are cab drivers so its............ par for the course, grovelling burkes

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The working rule for toilets is one toilet for 30 or 40 people I think. Obviously they're falling short at the airport.

Says it all here.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/toilets.htm

Do they work for the airport?

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It doesn't matter, the Airport rank company who are running the gaff should supply them.

Old saying, "A fool and their money are easily parted."

Morally I agree, they should.

Legally it is someone's employer who must meet the obligations.
In the case of the self employed, which is probably all of them, they'd better take a chemical toilet with them or learn to tie a knot in it

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They'll need some portaloos, they're only good for 15 people working an 8 hour shift.

Never a good Idea tying a knot in it, if they get overly excited at a decent fare they'll find that a taut human hawser is near impossible to undo a knot from..

Lie back and think of England. It will soon loosen off.

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Didnt have to, Caught a glimpse of Nicola Sturgeon on TV and it all unravelled even faster.

Really

and if yer right which yer not surely it will be simple to make them supply them eh

Cab driver " please guverner can we have some toilets please " no fekk orf ...................oh all right then

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