The taxi drivers have agreed to “give a truce” to the Government till the Mobile World Congress (MWC) is held, between February 27 and March 2, and have known as off the strike scheduled for subsequent week through the celebration of Integrated Systems Europe (ISE).
This was agreed through the meeting that they held on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona inside the framework of the strike known as this Wednesday between 10 a.m. and a pair of p.m., which incorporates the occupation by taxis of Gran Via and Passeig de Gràcia de Barcelona, in a protest that has introduced collectively 900 autos in response to the Guàrdia Urbana and a pair of,000 in response to the organizers.
They have determined that earlier than the MWC they’ll maintain a brand new meeting to see what the Government has achieved in regards to the calls for of the sector and at that second they’ll determine whether or not to name new strikes and blockades of the town.
The Government “accepts” to defend the charges
The spokesman for Elite Taxi, Tito Álvarez, has defined that the Government’s newest proposal to keep away from a strike within the sector through the celebration of Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) contains “accepting” the shielding of the taxi fare and the creation of the determine of a taxi operator.
The taxi drivers have demanded that the police forces perform particular campaigns, particularly at airports, and it’s anticipated that between this Wednesday and Thursday they’ll meet once more with the Generalitat Department of Territory to seek out out the response to this demand.
Likewise, Álvarez defined that the Government has agreed to incorporate within the 2023 Budget Accompaniment Law -which haven’t but been agreed- the prohibition of abusive reductions and dietary supplements -which ‘de facto’ means shielding the taxi fare-: “All the charges of the platforms are going to be the identical and there are going to be the identical guidelines for everybody”.
decree regulation
Asked in regards to the chance that there isn’t any settlement for the Budgets, Álvarez has assured that the Government “should make a decree regulation because of pressing necessity.”
On the opposite hand, it has additionally agreed to create the determine of taxi operators, though “it can’t be included within the Accompaniment Law”, which can come into power earlier than the summer time.
Álvarez defined that the demand for a cap on automobiles assigned to firms with 15% of all licenses in Catalonia “could be very tough to attain”, though it’s an antitrust measure and, in his phrases, the sector desires it it doesn’t matter what. .