Registered taxi drivers in European, Canada, India and the USA have organised protests and met to discuss the growth of taxi app companies. The unions are concerned with social dumping and “the way these companies undermine public safety and the jobs of real, regulated taxi drivers by bypassing regulations and refusing liability in the case of accidents”.
English: http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online ...
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.