On foot, and with protest signs, taxi drivers by app They carried out a mobilization on the avenue Paseo de la Reformaheading to platform offices, to demand better conditions for the union, such as greater security and fair percentages in rate commissions.
Around 2 in the afternoonabout 50 protesters gathered at the height of the Angel of Independenceto leave for the offices of DiDi y Uberto request the installation of a work table and submit a request document with your demands.
“If the applications adjusted the commission we would all win, but most of the profits go to them because they charge the user a lot, but they pay us very little,” he indicated. Salvador Godinezleader of the Union of Platform Workers.
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🔴 Among the union’s demands is the adjustment of commissions for drivers and recognition of rights as workers, explained Salvador Godínez, leader of the Union of Platform Workers.
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In addition to providing transparency in commissions, the dissidents requested the support of the platforms in the safety of drivers, stating that they are sometimes victims of assaults or robberies by criminals who pass as users.
“Security is also important to us, since the platform does not respond when there are assaults, robberies or in some cases even deaths. We have documented cases where the platforms have done nothing, we are fighting for fair commissions, not the percentage level that they manage, leaving a minimum for us,” commented Joel.
Among other points, drivers by application seek a reduction in waiting times and greater compensation for trip cancellations, to compensate for their transfer to the waiting point.
🛑 “We want transparency in terms of fare management and driver safety,” says Joel, an app taxi worker.
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“The platform gives us three minutes to wait, there are places where it is not possible or places at night where it is dangerous, this must be shortened, because it is also the user’s responsibility (to be ready). To get to the point they don’t give us anything, we have to wait five minutes so they can give us 15 or 20 pesos for canceling the trip that they charge the user,” added Joel.
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“What we have been asking for is a fair rate for the driver. We do not want the passenger to be increased, we simply want the commissions (of the application) to be reduced,” said Daniel, another of the protesters.
🔴 #AtMoment | App taxi workers carry out a mobilization on Paseo de la Reforma, heading to platform offices, to request work tables.
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