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Madrid / Barcelona, EFE
Spanish taxi drivers, and mainly in cities such as Barcelona and Madrid, have maintained their strike today to demand that the government limit the licenses to be paid. Companies like Uber and Cabify, which they accuse of
In expectation of the meeting this Monday with the executive of Pedro Sanchez, the main badociations and federations of the Taxi have decided to continue the judgments , which affect places of great tourist travel such as airports and train stations. Barcelona and Madrid are the cities most affected by the strikes, which began in Barcelona last Wednesday and Thursday and led to the call for an indefinite strike since yesterday, but the protests also spread to Malaga, Seville, Aragon, Valencia, Alicante, Baleares and País Vasco,
Barcelona taxi drivers have maintained their impetus today and ratified the strike, while demanding urgent solutions before leaving the city center and to free access to the airport El Prat
In Madrid, the national badociations of taxi drivers have agreed on a "common position" for the viability of the sector and have agreed to continue the mobilizations until the central government manifests its "willingness" to make regulatory changes.
As in the Catalan capital, in Madrid, the most conflicting points are at Barajas airport, as well as at Atocha station, where yesterday spontaneous concentrations that made that Renfe strengthened the services of Cercanías while unemployment is maintained.
The Spanish government has asked taxi drivers "calm" and "back to normal" while waiting to see what is happening not only in tomorrow's meeting with the taxi guild, but also in the Tuesday with the Driver-Vehicle combinations (VTC), which brings together platforms such as Uber and Cafify.
The Government has advanced to next Wednesday the National Transport Conference, which was scheduled for September, and proposes to transfer to the Autonomous Communities the powers to grant new licenses for the rental of vehicles with driver (VTC), as confirmed yesterday at the sources of the executive.
On the other side of the conflict, the multinational Uber platform sent a communication to its drivers – after several denunciations of badaults in the last few days – in which the company Sa said that it was not the case. he is looking for measures to alleviate the conflict, in a situation with which he declares himself "horrified". Uber, which operates in many countries around the world connecting users to drivers, believes it is necessary to modernize the Spanish transport law to reduce urban transport prices and create new jobs.
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