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yes Rambo i have tried to get drivers to stick together, i got 1 firm in west london to sign up to the GMB, and have tried with others drivers in other companies but its like hitting ur head against a brick wall, this is industry has too many 'only it it for themselves' attitude when they dont realise that organizing themselves would be to the long term benefit of themselves and others

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well i left my last firm 2 weeks ago where i was working as a part tine controller as well as driving, the owner who controls fri and sat nights was still working at midday today...he started at 6pm yesterday....he was on phone to me this morning beggin me to come back.........so you see voting with your feet does work

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Rambo never implied you could take a guv to court on acc work,what i was saying is that many proprietors make ILLEGAL deductions from drivers earnings IE parking fines,bus lanes,red routes,this not normally,at companies like yours i think,what does occur is pay for telephonists,controllers,and course on the self employed,worker under direction of company syndrome,which we have flogged to death,many of the above get less than the min wage.We take and win these cases.
ORGANISE EDUCATE AGITATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My company is one of the best in london when it comes to account work, the driver gets the same cash or account, yet they still moan about doing it.
When people say there is a shortage of drivers in london, I think what they mean is english speaking professinal drivers who know where they are going. If a new driver walks in when I am controlling I give them a knowledge test, I am amazed at how bad some of them are, and they have been doing it years.
This is why the london taxi knowledge should never be made easier, despite what we think about london taxi drivers, they are the best in the world.

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Rambo

Read your first post on this yesterday and some of the following posts.

This has been playing on my mind all day, re-read it today and all the subsequent posts.

I have to say that if this could be proven beyond reasonable doubt a***holes like this should have their licenses revoked.

This clearly isn’t a racist thing as some years ago I witnessed similar outrageous behaviour by an English driver over a communication problem. The female passenger turned out to be deaf. That Piece of Sh*t should also have had his license revoked.

There are clearly good and bad in all races, religions or whether they like the queen or not.

The question is what is going to be done about it. In an ideal world if we all had the intelligence to stick together and walk then firms like yours could be put out of business in no time.

However you are right it is bl**dy hard to get some of these clowns to stick together. In which case for the time being we will have to be over reliant on the rules and regulations, laws and political clout.

It shouldn’t be beyond collective wit for us to compile a log of these types of incidents together with the witnesses’ etc encouraging the witnesses to report it to the regulatory authority.

While the GMB quite rightly defends members who have had allegations made against them (they could be false), if behaviour of this sort were proved beyond reasonable doubt I hope no one in the union would be defending scum like this.

I am not doubting your word Rambo it is just that stuff like this has to be provable before effective action can be taken in line with the rules and regs.

Having said that if there are drivers out there who have difficulty with language problems there are solutions.

The GMB provides a service for its members who have numeracy and literacy problems and those who have language problems because English is their second or other language.

Evidently if a union recognised firm or group of recognised firms can identify around twenty drivers who have basic skills needs adult education can be arranged to help overcome those problems.

I understand that there is an east London firm already working with the union on one of these schemes and that there is money available to put one on in SW London.

It feels sh*t when you are isolated and there are these type of outrageous things going on but don’t give up.

Four or five years ago many would have said it was impossible to organise in this industry at all.

Now thanks in large part to our Fenian friend we have got a fairly decent union branch off of the ground.

Don’t give up Rambo come to the rally on the 21st November at Red Lion Square and join up.

If Terry can work with an Ulster Unionist anything is possible.

An excellent post south london cab.
I will go to the rally at red lion square, but will not join the GMB as yet, because I cannot have someone like GMB representing me.
The drivers who can't speak english in my office do it through choice, they could go to evening classes for free if they wanted but they don't care, that is why I have a very low opinion of them, they do not want to improve.
I have suggested that they go to evening classes and have got the paperwork for them but not one person has done it.

I think the PHV industry in london will improve, but it will be a long hard slog.

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Oh God, i don't believe it.

Be ineretsing to see how the Addison Lee Polish drivers get on...probably end up eating here...

Thats the London Fire Brigades canteen wagon, operated under contract by the Sally Army, it attends all 8 pump fires and above on the PDA, plus on request for major incidents, its shown here at an LUL generated incident.

Impressed?

dont believe what GBC?

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Very impressed GBC, picture taken outside th Royal Horticultural Hall during the The Emergency Services Show last week...

Anyone remeber a guy named Mendez chased by police held down whilst screaming for help amd shot 12times in the head proud of them?
The Birmingham 6,Winchester 3,and the Guildford 4,were framed,but the point you miss is that this action allowed the true perpatrarors to escape,clever eh?
The cab driver who got a paving stone on his head was a victim of a deliberately created situation of politcal spite.I never have sympathy for scabs,but would draw the line at killing them.It must be rememberd that if you collabarate with the enemy you take risks.The miners strike was right ,and the country will never recover from the damage inflicted by that disgusting government.
I have no doubt that the police are currently fabricating evidence against PHV drivers,which is why we have introduced a legal help line.
Undoubtedly there are decent Police officers,let us hope they win their internal struggle to clean the service up!ORGANISE EDUCATE EDUCATE!!

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Mendez was a victim of a deliberately created situation of political spite.

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. . . in the GMB.

Fate, destiny, South London, . . . . . . .

Well there we have it, the Professional Drivers Section of the GMB's view on the Murder of a licensed taxi driver.

Unbelievable.