taxi associations denounce unfair competition from giant tourer with Uber driver (AFP / File / Lionel Bonaventure)
taxi associations threaten to block access to Paris early dawn Monday to protest the unfair competition of giant tourer with Uber driver, but the extent of mobilization remains uncertain the absence of the rallying of the main federations.
This new episode in the war of taxis follows the refusal Friday of the Paris Commercial Court to ban the popular but controversial UberPOP service, which allows to relationship of passengers and motorists who are not professional drivers.
This service was added between individuals in February at the Paris commercial offer Uber, electronic platform available on smartphone that mediates between customers and drivers VTC.
“This is the straw that broke the camel,” railed president Taxis de France, Ibrahima Sylla, told AFP.
His association as the Collective of Paris taxis (CTP) and the French Association of taxis (AFT), called for “respond with fervor and firmness to this injustice.”
In an appeal to their hundreds of members, they propose a “great mobilization” starting Monday around 5:00 Roissy, heading north and east of Paris and at the start of Orly, near the entrance south of the capital, and to the west by the Porte de Saint-Cloud.
“This is a fight against any Uber. It is a Ras and tired, we had enough. Allow UberPOP is putting 57,000 French taxis on the floor, so 57,000 families. And that is out of question, we will not let do “, denounced Sylla.
“This is to say no to injustice, no to illegal work,” said his side the Federation of Independent Parisian taxis (FTI75) on his Facebook page.
– An action in January? -.
The decision of the Paris Commercial Court is more misunderstood than the California company Uber is on trial in other countries
UberPOP was banned Tuesday a judge in Spain, who felt that it was unfair competition, the day after a similar decision in the Netherlands.
Also on Monday, New Delhi has banned all companies voiturage using a mobile application to operate in the Indian capital after the questioning of a driver Uber in a rape case. Thailand also deemed illegal Uber.
In Europe, Danish and Norwegian authorities have filed a complaint against this company in over 250 cities and 50 countries, and those of the Brussels region intend to go to court.
The company also suffered a setback in Germany, where justice had banned before returning its decision.
Several snail operations have already been conducted in France since the beginning of the year to protest competition from VTC, especially that of Uber, one of them having been marked in January by overflow and damage in Paris.
But this time, the Inter drivers chose not to join the movement, even if it is also in favor of the ban on Uber.
“We do not want to bother people as Christmas approaches,” said Nordine Dahmane, FO representative and member of the Inter CFDT, CGT, FO, SDCTP and CSE.
“It’s the government to ban the illegal work,” he added, noting that the decrees of the Thévenoud law regulating the activity of the VTC were being drafted.
Using the Uber smartphone application to reserve a car, December 10, 2014 in Paris (AFP / File / Eliot Blondet)
The Inter scheduled to meet Monday at 4:00 p.m. to decide on a possible movement in January, she hopes a national scale.
Same story with the National Federation of taxi (FNDT). “I understand the disappointment of the drivers, but we have not issued a call to action (…) This is a spontaneous movement, no box,” said its president Didier Hogrel stating that a meeting on Wednesday will consider whether to take action.
Uber, founded in 2009 in California, has an impressive financial trajectory, since it valued at about $ 40 billion, against 17 in early June. She raised $ 1.2 billion in early December and, according to a Chinese state media, the Internet giant Baidu will invest up to $ 600 million in the group.
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