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UPTA denounces PNV and PSE favor VTCs over taxis in Vitoria-Gasteiz

The autonomous workers' union claims institutions are siding with VTC platforms like Uber and Cabify, harming the taxi sector.

Generic image of taxi and VTC lights on a night street.
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Generic image of taxi and VTC lights on a night street.

The UPTA union accuses institutions led by the PNV and PSE of harming Vitoria-Gasteiz's taxi sector by favoring VTC platforms and maintaining specific taxi drivers' privileges.

The UPTA (Union of Professionals and Autonomous Workers) has denounced that the governments of various institutions, framed by "PNV and PSE", are clearly playing in favor of VTC platforms (Uber, Cabify, and Bolt), "maneuvering so that it does not cost them too much socially and electorally" and "dismantling step by step" the taxi sector in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
In a statement, UPTA has denounced that VTCs and institutions have found "allies in the internal pressure groups of privileged taxi drivers around a large part of the Company Boards, and who do whatever it takes, even taking measures against their own colleagues, to remain in that privileged situation".
In this regard, it has criticized the president of the Basque Taxi Federation (FVT), Borja Muson, as well as the taxi association Alatax, for having "intervened to redirect the dissenters and bring them into the fold, supposedly negotiating, but without the City Council withdrawing its proposal".
A proposal that the collective of autonomous taxi drivers has recalled "failed", since out of the 194 existing taxi drivers in Vitoria-Gasteiz, 87 voted against and 53 in favor of the municipal ordinance change that "imposes unpaid and mandatory night guards" on them.
Regarding this, it has appealed to both the FVT and Alatax to consider the possibility of "paralyzing the mandatory guards" by filing judicial appeals and requesting precautionary measures against the Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council.
Addressing the Consistory, UPTA has demanded "economic and statistical analyses, with real data, showing a lack of established taxis based on legal studies", as they are willing to "rectify if it is proven to be so".
On the other hand, they have requested that "the minutes and agreements signed by the various institutions over decades with the supposedly representative associations of the sector be published, including those from the Taxi Commissions, which are mandatory by law in the case of the provincial councils".
"If we do not take a step forward, organize ourselves and mobilize firmly, heading towards a 24-hour closure of the sector and demanding permanent inspection of platform VTCs, the entire sector can descend into hell with the confrontation between taxi drivers and, ultimately, lose 2,100 direct jobs", it concluded.

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