Taxi protest heading to office of regulator

Tomorrow’s planned protest by Taxi Drivers For Change looks set to go ahead as previously blogged. Drivers will be taking their protest to the office of the Taxi Regulator on Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2 around lunch time tomorrow causing traffic in the city centre to be severly disrupted. The TDFC group are calling on SIPTU (trade union representing other taxi driver unions) to organise a protest for Friday morning at 7am at Dublin Airport however this has not been confirmed as going ahead by SIPTU or its’ members.

Conflicting reports regarding how many taxis are expected to participate in the city centre protest suggest between 1,000 and 3,000 taxis will take to the streets. A debate over tomorrow’s protest is ongoing at the Irish Taxi blog and the Taxi Eire forum.

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Taxi drivers to protest on March 20th

 
Taxi Drivers for Change are to mount another protest in Dublin city this coming Friday, March 20th. Details are sketchy as of yet but members of the group are being instructed to meet at Airside and Liffey Valley with protest action taking place between the hours of 8a.m. and 2p.m. 

Last week, Goodbody Economic Consultants published their “Economic Review of the Small Public Service Vehicle Industry” document which doesn’t echo the claims of TDFC members who believe the current system of taxi regulation needs to be changed and in particular, a need to cap the number of available taxi licenses.

Video taken from TDFC website.

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Primary school teachers to strike on March 30th

On the first week of March the members of the teacher unions, the ASTI, INTO and TUI, voted to “take industrial action, up to and including strike action, over the government’s handling of the economic crisis” (see TUI press release). In the past few days, ICTU have begun organising a one-day strike on March 30th, which would result in the closure of around 3,200 primary schools around the country.

General Secretary of the INTO,  John Carr, also pointed out that the prospect of a “work to rule” could not be ruled out, something to be discussed by the three main teacher unions at a meeting this coming week.

Teachers United, “a group of grassroots activists from across the three Teacher Unions ASTI, INTO & TUI”, have recently started a blog at http://teachersunited.wordpress.com/. The ICTU website, www.ictu.ie, remains rather behind in delivering up-to-date news of ballots, protests & strikes such as the one outlined above.

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