The leader of the Democratic Coalition Unit (CDU), who joins CFP and “The Greens”, stated today be on the side of the struggle of taxi drivers against the company “underground” Uber, a public session in full wide Camões in Lisbon.
Jerónimo de Sousa was speaking to an audience of members of the organizations of workers and union leaders of transport companies, while the traffic in the capital underwent chaotic hours, caused by the protest of taxi drivers by the considered unfair competition from international Uber company.
“The day that the taxi was manifested in Lisbon, Oporto and Faro, ensure the defense of the public transport sector, against liberalization,” the communist secretary general, showing up against that carrier and “other illegal”, such as “tuk-tuk” companies “without complying with labor legislation, requirements and licensing required by the taxi sector, to escape taxes, all in the name of a supposed modernity.”
The PCP leader had praised before the efforts and employee shares of the various public transport companies, including strikes, for “the first to be harmed are the workers who do not receive your salary.”
“If it was not your struggle, today we would not be here to discuss the threats for many companies in the industry that the Government threatens to privatize because they had already been privatized,” he said, lamenting the offensive Steps executive Coelho and Paulo Portas to “increase the exploitation and stealing rights, wages, pensions and incomes.”
“With the current scandalous process of privatization, concessions and sub-concessions, the Government intends to lay off as many workers … cleaning companies socially, create unemployment, and then deliver them limpinhas, boneless, to big capital. It is a new generation of public-private partnerships, speculative operations “classified.
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