Skull wrote:
Come on John T tell me where I've got it wrong?
‘Increasing the number of employees increases employer power’. In practice the larger the available employment pool, the easier it is to control the work force. This leads to high employment for low paid workers.
This simple fact translates into hike rentals and increased plate premiums against a backdrop of falling customer numbers. The only people not competing are the owners, who, for the most part, depend on increasing driver numbers to fuel their employment status. The end result being more people at the bottom, each a little unit of profit, toiling away into the wee small hours earning more for the owner.
Drivers are a commodity to be traded between owners, nothing more. The only way this can be achieved is by restricting the choice of employment opportunities for drivers’ - limiting the number of available shifts by artificially capping the number of vehicles. The effect this has is more drivers crammed into fewer shifts, paying more money, while earning less, just to have a job.
With the upwards pressure on driver numbers, the Edinburgh Cab trade is now well on its way to having a part-time labour force. Soon you will have Mon-Thursday day/night drivers - Friday-Sun day/night drivers. The week will be split into part-time units. A driver’s rental (if there are rentals) will be the equivalent of a half or a third of the clock. You might even be paid by the hour.
The trades so called representative are well aware of where this is heading. They know the only way to increase their status is by having greater control over the workforce, and that means denying the driver the opportunity to compete for his own market. The council on the other hand want to protect their arms length Bus Company, their new Tram system, along with Private Hire interests, increasing the employment pool of the low paid workers.
Read it and weep boys, and remember, I told you so.
Yeah Skull
Perhaps the guys and gals should realise that rentals are only going one way - that's North.
With their own licence, and their own vehicle, drivers can have a fixed budgetable cost for an E7 over the next five years for around 200 quid a week. They should be comparing this with the uncertainty of rentals over the same period where the pressures for huge increases will exist because of the over supply of Labour, the restricted supply of vehicles in a council inspired shortage, and a group of owners who will capitalise on these factors big time.
As Skull says, you heard it here first. There's no excuse for bubbling in the future because you didn't believe us.
Drivers should be forming group partnerships now to lay the groundwork. Shared legal costs mean lower legal costs.
I'm paving the way, at huge expense, to bring about a recognition of the council's chicanery and double-dealing in the way it deals with taxi licensing. Victory here will mean that anyone ready to put down their £1205 will reap the reward. A mere thank you will suffice by the way.
Any licence application made now can be sisted on the back of my appeal, for a paltry fee. My winning my case would mean those licences would be granted automatically.
This is the time of opportunity. But only for those with the balls to take advantage.
Remeber Salteri et al. Who's laughing now?
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