Taxi drivers claim Larreta | Against …

The taxi unions cut various parts of the city and mobilized at the Buenos Aires government headquarters to protest against transport applications such as Uber and Cabify. "(The head of government, Horacio Rodríguez) Larreta has repeatedly stated that" UBER was illegal ", but his remarks were not and are not accompanied, so far, substantive measures to finally finish and that's what we will ask for, "said the board members of the taxi unit in a press release.

Starting at 11 am, the Taxi Pawn Union (SPT) led by Omar Viviani, the Capital Taxi Association (ATC), the Union of Taxi Car Owners (UPAT), the Society of Car Owners with Taximeters (SPAT) and the owners and representatives of the Union of the Argentine Republic (Upymra) began to cross from the corner of Boedo and Garay avenues to the headquarters of GCBA, located in Parque Patricios.

"It's beyond Uber. There is a policy of precariousness of employment ", denounced Alberto "Cacho" Rodríguez, secretary general of the ATC, in an interview granted to the radio show "Open the Game" in AM 770. For Rodríguez, the arrival of 39, transport applications, which allow anyone to make their car available to transport passengers ", this is an advanced way to install the flexibility of the workforce in the country" and therefore to offer a "job strength".

In the press release, taxi drivers demand the head of government "to send a law to the legislature" which declares Uber illegal and other similar applications. They added in the text that it was incumbent on Rodríguez Larreta "to protect the public transport service against the voracious and predatory action of these multinational pirates who, in addition to evading fraud, realize their poorly earned profits abroad, because of the overexploitation of labor ".

According to the members of the board of the taxi unit, "Three and a half years ago, UBER, Cabify and other APP multinationals are operating illegally but unpunished in our city". In the press release, taxi drivers in Buenos Aires claim that President Mauricio Macri and Rodríguez Larreta have allowed multinationals to "enter" with the neoliberal narrative of "free market", "modernity" and " the spirit of enterprise "ruin and seize our service."

"The question here is to fight for decent work," Rodriguez said. "If we lower these flags, we are now covering some needs and tomorrow they give us bread and a partner so we can go to work." The union leader said that new demonstrations would take place next week and that they would continue even in the first week of November, after the national elections. "We will follow her to death, we will not detach them in any way," he promised.