Last month Taxi drivers blocked the streets of Rio in protest against Uber
More than a thousand taxi drivers protested in Rio de Janeiro on a Friday against ride-sharing company Uber, blocking roads and stalling traffic during morning rush hour as tensions rise in the city over the mobile app ride service.
In Rio, cabbies parked their yellow taxis in a chain stretching for 5 kilometers (3 miles) along one of the city's main thoroughfares that connects the affluent south zone with the central business district. Taxi drivers honked their horns and chanted.
"We want to combat the illegal (drivers). We are the official ones, we have a responsibility, we are professionals who have families," said Alexander Campos, a taxi driver from Belo Horizonte who drove the 400 kilometers (248 miles) to Rio for the protest.
Uber Technologies Inc responded by offering free rides to customers to help alleviate transport issues on what it called a "difficult day for getting around."
The company has come under fire in countries around the world, with local taxi drivers complaining that Uber drivers are not properly regulated and have fewer overhead costs, which makes them unfairly competitive.
Lawmakers in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, and capital city Brasilia have already voted to ban Uber after protests by their local taxi drivers.
Yesterday the bill received the require executive approval in Rio and will now be taking force.
This was posted on FaceBook just after midnight last night.
3 comments:
And what is the London Taxi trade doing about Uber ? If you don't know, ask her in doors !
Proof again for our anti-militant colleagues, that taking control ourselves immediately.........works!
Leaving it to politicians and judicial reform is futile. Some of them will be paying their mortgages on the back of the Yankee Giants ! If you want a job done, do it yourself !
Semtex
They are a united trade unlike us we still need a mass demo when every driver joins in not just a few thousand on demo and the other 15 thousand working as normal . We should have packed a punch like the tube drivers are doing . To many I'm retiring soon I can't afford to go I'm to tired I work nights , iv made my money , Let's give london a real black cab mass demo . Once a month until heads at T F L.
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