If you're struggling to find a job tonight, struggling to meet your financial commitments and can't understand where all the work's gone...Then watch the video above 'pings, pings and more pings, and a nice bit of data breach'.
Same old rhetoric from the snowflakey ‘games not dead’ brigade and funny enough, they're right, London's far from dead, there is plenty of work out there.... Unfortunately it's standing in the street gazing at smart phones, waiting for their Uber Slave.
But this isn't about fare competition, this is all about predictor pricing and illegal plying for hire.
So, where’s our work gone... you may well ask!
Basically, it's in the Uber cars that are now openly plying for trade (illegally) all over London...but hold up a minute, isn’t that why we had to trained, some of us for many years, so we as a trade, would have a monopoly to legally 'Ply for trade'?
Isn't his the reason we go through such rigorous background checks and driver such an expensive compliant vehicle???
Surely our largest representative org (the one with 10,000 members) would be on to this......surely they won't be waiting and seeing...again?
How did we get to this point???
In 2012, along came a multi-billion dollar company, registered in another country where they pay hardly no tax and no VAT, using drivers who acquired their licenses in a matter of days, with dodgy on-line medicals and questionable criminal record checks.... yet here they are openly plying for hire -in real time on phone screens- and the general manager of our licensing regulator says she vouches for every one of their drivers.
After five years of rapes, sexual assaults, data breaches, customer account hacks, record numbers of RTAs...the regulator suddenly said 'sorry can’t relicense as you are not fit and proper' then ironically, they went to court and virtually defended the company (who incidentall paid TFL's legal costs even though TfL lost the appeal). The Magistrate, Emma Arbuthnot, then gave Uber a (non existent in current legislation) probationary licence. The smell from the courts reeked of conflicts of interest and corruption.
The company can now carry on regardless in much the same MO as before offering artificial low fares ( illegal predator pricing). This set up is a massive vote winner for Sadiq Khan, so we can’t any expect help from his direction.
So why have our regulator defended this company so vigorously???
TfL are set to make 30-million pounds a year from Private Hire Drivers so again, so no help from that area either.
It's time for all of the Orgs, Unions and drivers dig into their pockets and throw their lot into the @UTAG17 campaign. No time left now for waiting and seeing.
TFL once told the trade, “if you don’t like it, take us to court” .....and that’s exactly what UTAG intend to do.
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