Cabbie Group Authorizes Another Strike
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A cabbies’ group said yesterday that it finds the city’s requirement for GPS and credit card technology in taxis insulting — and it has authorized another strike to protest their installation.
The executive director of the Taxi Workers Alliance, Bhairavi Desai, said her group met for two hours early Tuesday and voted to repeat its strike of September. Details on when and where the drivers will strike are to be announced this morning, she said.
Mayor Bloomberg said the city is prepared if there is another taxi strike.
The walkout by the Taxi Workers Alliance in September failed to win concessions from the city About 500 drivers from the Alliance met between 1:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. yesterday.
“There was an unanimous decision to go on strike,” Ms. Desai said. “Details will be announced in the morning.”
“We don’t have a problem with the credit card in principal,” Ms. Desai said. “It’s the 5% surcharge that drivers have to pay on every transaction. There’s no economic protection for the drivers if the card is declined or the signal fails.”
