taxi drivers - 6 Items Tagged Within News
RMT on Bus and Taxi driver COVID mortality rates
Commenting on today’s ONS figures which showed that male bus and coach drivers and male taxi drivers are two of the occupational groups with high rates of Covid-19 deaths, RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: “These figures are a tragic...
Region: National
Tagged with: Covid-19, Bus Drivers, Taxi Drivers, Mortality Rates, Vaccination,
RMT demands Government and local council support for COVID-battered taxi trade
With the second wave of COVID - 19 now battering the whole of Britain, and with localised lockdowns in place, the taxi trade is currently in crisis with hard working taxi drivers facing financial ruin due to the decimation of regular as...
Region: National
Tagged with: Covid-19, Taxi, Taxi Drivers
RMT Taxi Drivers to protest at Luton Town Hall
RMT TAXI DRIVERS will be protesting outside Luton Town Hall at 1.30pm on Wednesday 22nd June over unprecedented attacks on their trade The slashing of the grant from central government to local authorities has resulted in councils looking for new...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: taxi drivers, luton
RMT fights scapegoating of taxi drivers by Leicester Council
Taxi union RMT said today that it will be launching a campaign to fight the introduction by Leicester Council of a new system of penalty points targeted at taxi drivers. There are already pre-existing sanctions in place for taxi drivers...
Region: Midlands
Tagged with: taxi drivers, leicester council
London Taxi Drivers Demonstration tomorrow 9th July
The RMT London Taxi Drivers believe this is not the time to let TfL off the hook and are committed to keeping the pressure on. Failure to enforce legislation and selective consultation must stop. This Branch will be staging...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: tfl, lodnon taxi drivers
RMT backs London Taxi protest on Wednesday
RMT is backing the protest, under the banner “Cabbies Against Boris”, which has been mobilised against the many improper and unlawful decisions imposed on the taxi trade by Transport for London and the Mayor. These include the improper London Taxi...
Region: South East and Anglia