The 215 taxi drivers that are part of the Lanzarote Taxi Drivers Association, which groups the municipalities of Tías, Yaiza, Tinajo, Teguise and Haría, have submitted a request for a strike, which has already been accepted, and that could take place on March 20, 22 and 23. This was announced this Thursday on Radio Lanzarote by the president of this group, Leocadio Martín, who assured that the taxi drivers will meet to decide if they finally carry out the strike, after the controversy with the Auriga system, which they demand to be managed by the group and not by an external company, to which the service has already been awarded.
This stoppage will affect these five municipalities although, according to Martín, they also have the support of the taxi drivers of San Bartolomé and some professionals from the sector in Arrecife. If they finally go on strike, it will be from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
But not only could they carry out this pressure measure, but they will also set up a new Auriga system for the 109 taxi drivers of Tías and the 59 of Yaiza. "The service will be carried out by the taxi drivers themselves, we will set up a service with the latest technology, but let no one take our accounts," he warned. In addition, Martín has expressed confidence that the rest of the town councils will also back down, as Tías did this week in plenary, where it decided not to include the taxi drivers of the municipality in the Auriga system.
"The competition" of the awarded company
Martín has assured that the taxi sector cannot allow its management to be carried out by "presumably a competing company". And, according to him, the company awarded the management of the Auriga system "may have a relationship with another passenger road transport company in Lanzarote".
According to this president, what was agreed by the taxi drivers and the Cabildo was to implement the Auriga system, but if it was managed by the taxi drivers. "That's what we voted for," he indicated. However, during the period to submit and acquire the service, the taxi drivers failed to agree and finally the Cabildo awarded the system to an external company.
Regarding the warning from the Councilor for Transport of the Cabildo, Ramón Bermúdez, who assured that if this matter continues to be complicated, he could take the taxi drivers to court, Leocadio Martín has rejected these "threats" and has ironized about this matter saying that he does not mind going to court, "because I have never been and so I know them from the inside".
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