Saturday late afternoon, Christian, 33, Uber driver, was expressed fears during a race between the Canal Saint Martin and the Folies Bergeres in northern Paris.
Tuesday, it’ll be war. I do not know if I’m going to work. “
In response to the call of unions, thousands of taxi drivers are expected Tuesday, January 26 to protest against the development of transport cars with drivers (VTC ) that work with apps like Uber, Chauffeur-private or Snapcar.
And this strike will be “hard”, warned Serge Metz, CEO of Taxis G7, the main taxi company in France. C ‘ was also the view of George, 48, met Friday evening:
The colleagues will block the railway stations, airports and highways It will be even more violent than the last time “ A street war
The last time was in June 2015. To oppose Uberpop, a service of the US implementation Uber where drivers are individuals, taxis showed muscles. We remember this video, shot in Marseille, showing a severely taken to driver:
In a heat wave, intimidation against the VTC had multiplied. Skidding too. Two drivers had finished in custody after having beaten a young man who had defended the service between individuals. A taxi, thinking to attack a particular Uberpop-driver had … even stoned the vehicle of a police officer! . Discription
Punch shares were again until Tuesday feared by management Uber France, which reported a tract of the CGT and a tweet containing a rather impressive video:
Even if Uberpop disappeared, it is still the Cold War since the attacks of November 13.
In Paris, the hotels are empty and our taxis too, George yells. But Uber and company, we see them every night to take clients, before our eyes, at the exit of the clubs and restaurants. During that time, we, we die! “
A judicial war
The clash takes place also at the legal level. Uber After arriving in France, the government responded with Thévenoud law, supposed to decide the street between taxis and VTC, task oh so dangerous: only taxis are entitled to marauding and VTC are expected to return to their base before making a new order … Difficult to apply .
Last summer, the agitations had accelerated litigation. “UberPop must be disbanded and declared illegal”, said François Hollande. Except for carpooling, it is prohibited to carry a passenger for money without professional status. The leaders of the company in France had ended up in police custody several days later and the service has gone.
Again, respect for the law is the first claim taxis. “We denounce the practices of some operators who organize undeclared work and illegal transport of persons”, say the main taxi unions the eve of the strike. Soliciting in stations and airports, illegal taxis … but above all, misuse of the LOTI law, used especially by Uber drivers …
A war status
To drive up the number cars, Uber is based on several statutes for its drivers. Because training for VTC license is over 200 hours. The US company first proposed his system to individuals. And since qu’Uberpop was declared illegal, the US firm has found another way forward: LOTI license, originally scheduled for the shuttles, including school
According to our studies. over 10 vehicles, 7 are illegally because they use the status Loti. Only 3 have the status of VTC “, claimed to” Obs “Nicolas Banchet, deputy general manager of Taxis G7, days before the strike.
In fact, LOTI license is not incompatible Uber with activity, provided to take multiple clients simultaneously. Does the LOTI drivers stick to Uberpool service, which allows to share the race with another client? Unless you put a policeman behind every car, it seems difficult to verify …
This regulatory point was not addressed in the Thévenoud law, but according to the law Emmanuel Macron, it could be the order of the day of the round table, to bring together all the stakeholders.
A communications war
As a new obstacle ahead, a week before the strike, called Uber a new type of drivers to adopt its application: Taxis For them, it would be more: thanks to their license, they are entitled to the status of VTC Simply they so request.
“Coup com”, “provocation”! Taxis G7 denounces. Taxis would need another vehicle, which would be absurd … unless they have removable plates and neon signs. According to the race, they could easily view the status VTC, to multiply the number of customers. “This is what the taxis in Amsterdam,” says to “Obs” spokesman Uber France.
A war for market
The dream Uber is to get to blow up the leading position in the G7 group, whose revenues are based in particular on its radio station, which distributes the races according to customer phone calls. “Competition must be between the booking platforms: taxi central and VTC applications Not between drivers.” Says Uber
The G7 group would he impeded the development of the sector. ? “We launched the first smartphone application in 2008, well before Uber, meets Nicolas Banchet, deputy CEO of Taxis G7. Today it represents 20% of our orders. But we relied on a diversified, with Internet orders and phone. Many of our customers appreciate being able to reach us 24 hours / 24 and 7/7. ”
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France is a strategic country for Uber. For while the American firm faces regulatory barriers, concurrent applications as Heetch develop. Although officers of the start-up have also been put in custody in the last few days.
A lobbying war
Each group tries to pressure her mannered. The day before the strike, applications are slit a tearful statement:
The aim of this event taxis is simple: pressure the government to make it even more difficult access to VTC driver profession to limit competition, while the sector is booming. That would mean the end apps like Allocab, Driver-Private, Five-S, Marcel, or Uber SnapCar. “
In fact, Uber and its competitors hope especially influence the drafting of a decree aimed to simplify the training of VTC, as provided for Thévenoud law. Under the terms of this training, they will see the number of drivers increase more or less quickly.
In front of the main groups of taxis are pressing in the opposite direction. “François Hollande he forgot taxis of the Marne?” argued George this weekend. The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has certainly not forgotten the taxis blocking capabilities …
An economic war
Behind the punch action, communicated lightning and approaches to justice plays an ideological battle. “Uberisation economy,” according to its critics , “release the brakes activity,” according to its defenders. “Digital Transition” for everyone.
On the one hand, competition between traditional and regulated sectors such as taxis by more efficient digital services can increase the activity by multiplying the number of available drivers and improving the quality of the race.
On the other hand, applications based essentially on the workforce cheap, and whose earnings go directly to California, where the company is valued at over 50 billion euros, indicate potential precariousness for workers.
, watermark, a question, Colin raised by the report and Collin applied to urban transport sector: how to fund a smooth digital transition
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