The "app taxi driver strike".
Can you believe these idiots?
https://ewn.co.za/2022/03/19/sa-s-e-hailing-drivers-promise-shutdown-of-major-routes-next-week
Regulation has destroyed the minibus taxi industry and given supreme decision making power to government who have created their own competitor to private industry. The regulator should NOT be in an industry.
People should have free choice where to work.
If they aren’t happy they should organize themselves (it is called a union and it negotiates on behalf of workers).
Everyone driving a taxi has volunteered to drive. No one has been forced or coerced. If a particular taxi company is sending its drivers into danger then those drivers should work for a different company.
There is competition. But there is no loyalty, either by the drivers or the taxi app owners.
And what are people like us, who have sold our cars and rely on taxis meant to do during the 3 days these drivers are on strike? It's the same question I ask when the bus drivers go on strike. If the buses are on strike, I find another alternative, taxis. If the taxis are on strike, maybe I buy a car, or a motorbike, or maybe I realise that I have already worked from my office, which is local at my house, since 2002. And in 2020 and 2021, the rest of the world's office building workers learnt how to work from their home offices. Why do we need cars, taxis and buses in any case? Do everything within walking distance, like in the old days?
#people #traffic #transport #vehicles #unions #strikes #negotiation
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