After several unsuccessful meetings with various metropolitan officials, the taxi
section has been forced to call a rally in front of the Barcelona City Council tomake visible a problem that has been affecting taxi workers and users for a longtime. With this action, the aim was to warn citizens of the danger they run whenusing the taxi service in the Barcelona metropolitan area. ---- There are nosecurity measures for salaried taxi workers, there is no control over taxicompanies and fleets in the Barcelona metropolitan area. ---- From the taxisection of the CNT Various Trades Union of Barcelona, we denounce all the abusesallowed by the Metropolitan Taxi Institute (IMET), which we detail below:Salaried taxi drivers, in order to have a decent salary, need to work exhaustingshifts of more than 12 hours every day, some salaried taxi drivers even work 16or even 24 hours for entire weeks. There are even taxi workers who sleep and eatin the vehicle. All to be able to reach 1100 euros per month.These long working hours are due to the fact that the salaried worker receives acommission, from that commission VAT, social security and personal income tax arededucted. They do not pay overtime, night shifts or holidays.In August they give us 700 euros and we cannot take vacations, the extra paymentsare 350 euros each.We always charge the same percentage in any circumstance, if it does not reachthe minimum, the employer deducts it from the payroll, so he is forced to work asmuch as it takes to be able to support his family, on many occasions having toaccept money that it is won in black and that every day takes a little more lifefrom us. For this reason, we are forced to work endless hours to compensate forall these deficits, with the consequent negative effects on our health and thedanger that comes from being tired after so many hours behind the wheel.Meanwhile, the floteros spend their lives raising money with the health and livesof employees, hiding it under the mattress. Huge amounts of black money that noone controls.These long and exhausting days endanger our lives: we want to remember theserious accident of a salaried taxi driver that occurred in Terminal 2 of theBarcelona airport a few months ago.We also want to remember the long list of salaried taxi drivers who suffer fromanxiety attacks, tachycardia, heart attacks... and are on medical leave, due tothe pressure, harassment and mobbing to which they are subjected by companies,floaters and taxi agencies in Barcelona.We point directly to IMET as responsible for allowing this situation, and forignoring what happens in the taxi companies, because according to them it is abusiness and union problem and is not their responsibility.We point directly to the department of labor and the labor inspection as beingresponsible, as they do not act if there is no prior complaint and when they doact, they do so after 5 months when the worker is on sick leave or dismissed.Both self-employed and salaried taxi workers are tired of years of abuse andimpunity from taxi companies and a mafia of floaters that impose their own lawsin an authoritarian and martial way, without anyone holding them accountable.These taxi bosses are responsible for exploiting taxi drivers, forcing them towork endless hours, endangering the health of workers and the safety of Barcelonataxi users.We are already several people who, tired of not being able to earn a living witha minimum of dignity by offering citizens the taxi service they deserve, haveorganized ourselves to change this situation. It is time to fight for our rights.https://www.cnt.es/noticias/conducir-taxis-la-explotacion-sin-descanso/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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