Since a week, taxi drivers protest in Madrid against cheap car service to intermediaries and block their cars on the streets in the centre of the capital. The police is now to unusual measures.
In Madrid, has cleared the police with the help of cranes streets in the center, since the days of protesting taxi drivers were blocked. The drivers protest against car service intermediaries like Uber. They had started their protest action on Monday a week ago.
Uber, Cabify and other car service Apps threatened their livelihood, said the taxi driver and demanded that the local government of Madrid, and stricter conditions for this competition.
“The right to strike means the right to block the city,” said representatives of the government, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribe’s.
dozens of police with helmets and shields aside with a tidy on the Central Paseo de la Castellana, with the help of cranes, the first of the Taxis. The other taxi drivers of them drove then with a loud Honking. Not disputes it.
police officers clean the streets of Madrid.
Uber driver is driving on its own account
In Spain to defend the taxi drivers, as in many other countries, against competitors such as Uber. A ride with one of Uber-brokered private car will cost significantly less. The drivers work on their own account and are not social security.
In Barcelona had ended the taxi drivers strike against Uber on Thursday, after the regional government had adopted of Catalonia, a new law. Municipalities can require that customers must book travel at least an hour in advance.
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