The taxi drivers put five conditions to end the stoppages in Madrid

The taxi drivers put five conditions to end the stoppages in Madrid

The guild asks the Community of Madrid that the VTC have to be hired one hour in advance, that they do a service of minimum kilometers, that they do not wander in search of clients or that they do not have parking on the surface

  Ninth day of strike of the Taxi of Madrid and the demonstrators return to take their protest before the national headquarters of the PP , in Genoa street, at this time shielded. After demonstrating without incident in the early hours before the headquarters of the UGT , a union they accuse of having taken sides in favor of the VTC, dozens of taxi drivers have marched through the city center to Genoa. In the afternoon, several dozen taxi drivers started on their way to the Atocha station and cut the Gran Vía and part of Recoletos, after demonstrating at Puerta del Sol

After the evacuation on Monday of the 2,000 taxi drivers who occupied the Castellana and who collapsed the center of Madrid for hours, the union had decided to lower the intensity of the protests on Tuesday and the cuts of the roads are smaller than other days until At the last minute the situation became complicated.

All this at the expense of seeing the welcome that the Government of Madrid gives to the new proposal that will be presented shortly to try to dismantle this conflict that has already become the longest in the history of the sector in Madrid. The proposal of the taxi drivers, who point out that it is a significant reduction of their aspirations, has, in essence, five fundamental points: that the VTC, as it is going to be approved in Catalonia , must be pre-contracted one hour in advance , something a that the Government headed by Ángel Garrido is roundly denied; In addition, they claim that they can only be hired to perform a service of minimum kilometers (they point to five kilometers); than the Uber or Cabify vehiclesdo not have surface parking ; that the VTCs can not walk down the street waiting for customers and that they have to return to their base compulsory after the service; and that the new regulations clearly define the concept of 2 "customer acquisition".

No to the 'Catalan solution'
Those responsible for the plants ensure that with these three conditions the stoppages would be called off. However, the regional government has already announced that in no case will accept the 'Catalan solution' of temporary pre-contracting, which they believe is against competition. Garrido's team, for the moment, is still only willing to talk about being able to put a "spatial" limit on the VTC, that is, they can not be hired by the client when they are too close. The Community has offered a radius of 300 meters, which taxi drivers reject bluntly.

«Extermination» of the VTC
Moreover, the Community of Madrid has ensured on Tuesday that it will not "legislate to ensure the extermination" of transport vehicles with driver (VTC), so it does not give "good" a regulation that sets a temporary pre-contract, since this is a "red line".

In the press conference after the weekly meeting of the Governing Council, the vice president of the Community of Madrid, Pedro Rollán, has referred to the proposal that taxi drivers.

Against Podemos and the PSOE
But taxi drivers are not the only ones who demonstrate in Madrid. Hundreds of VTC workers have concentrated in front of the national headquarters of Podemos and then of the PSOE to demand that the formation of the home and the party that supports the Executive should stop placing them at the target of this conflict . The protesters complain in particular that Pablo Iglesias' party is attacking salaried workers in their fight against multinationals like Uber or Cabify .