Milan, the « wild » strike of the taxi drivers in the central station on the second day. The NCC blocked: « Stop to illegal »
Second day of protests in the central without notice. Black cars: move the violent away
« This comes from Gardone Riviera. » « Really ». « He stopped there, he will be in countermenan. » The « hunting » to the NCC (rental with driver) is staged along the perimeter of the central station. The Selva di Tassisti between Piazza Duca d’Aosta and Luigi di Savoia has fallen on the dividing islands. Stop, wait. About fifty white cars is parked next to the customer’s load. It is 13.30 on Wednesday. The taxi drivers are looking for the « badges ». The sign of licenses, that is, attacked on the trunk of the NCC machines to indicate their origin. They want to be abusive. « You have to leave, stop stealing the job, » they shout. In reality, the accusations are also addressed against some taxis that do not join the « Wild » strike (the second in two days) and pass, download passengers and continue. External and internal battles.
To the plant to welcome passers -by, commuters, visitors and tourists there is a white banner with black writings: « More controls, less illegality ». It is hung on the shelter of Piazza Luigi di Savoia from Tuesday. From the first day on which the protest was convened without notice of white cars. A gathering organized « from the bottom » to say « enough for the unauthorism of the NCC and to the unfair competition of Uber ». Around there are trucks and law enforcement patrols. They are those of reserve, not engaged in other services such as « safe stations », because the protest has not arrived at the police station.
The faces and methods of action of these days, of the « Anti -abusive rondes », They are in fact the same as already seen in February in Piazza Duomo. In that case, on several occasions, Black cars had been obliged to pass through a funnel of taxi drivers and then be offended and affected. Some abusive had been intercepted (a driver protagonist of some TV services). A script that on Tuesday and Wednesday in Central Station, and then in Linate, is partly back. The taxi drivers waited for the passage of the NCC. Then they approached them, blocked, and lower the window. While the drivers was intimated, in some cases, to leave. Tuesday a driver also found the side of the lines.
Always Tuesday Francesco Artusa, president of System Transport, sent a letter to the mayor Beppe Sala Asking a meeting to be able to compare « on these issues since this situation seems objectively now unsustainable ». Continue Artusa: « We claim the right to work. We are blocked by taxi drivers who make all the grass a bundle. When organizing an event, times and path are established. Why doesn’t it happen in this case?. We want to be respected the rule of law. These subjects must be identified and sanctioned ». From Uber in a note they said « surprised by the recent strikes »while yesterday the new hypothesis of the memorandum of understanding between institutions and trade unions was released to combat abusiveness. The text of the agreement will be defined during a technical table: Appointment on May 13 in the Prefecture.
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