(Montreal) Quebec taxis will begin a rotating strike on Tuesday morning that will continue for the next few days.
Tuesday, from 9am to 11am, the Vaudreuil, Coteau-du-Lac, Valleyfield, Trois-Rivières, Sept-Îles, Prévost-St-Lin, Chandler, Gaspé, Tremblant, Mont-Laurier, Matane and Sainte-Thérèse taxis, Alma, Magog, Shawinigan, Drummondville and Saint-Elzéar will be on strike.
Only services deemed absolutely necessary and essential will be insured.
On Wednesday, they are the taxis of Rivière-du-Loup, Granby, The Bay, Rimouski, St. Jerome, Coaticook, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Farnham, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Terrebonne, Sainte-Agathe, Saint-Eustache, Joliette and Sherbrooke will continue the rotating strike.
The next day, Thursday, it will be around the taxis of Laval, Hull, Le Gardeur, Lachute, Jonquiere, Trois-Rivieres, Granby, Baie-Comeau, Thetford Mines, Black Lake, Chicoutimi, Repentigny, Rouyn-Noranda, Gatineau, Cap- aux-Meules and Mont-Joli.
Thereafter, the cycle of strikes will begin again.
Taxi license owners are dissatisfied with the compensation included in the Quebec government's reform. This amounted to $ 814 million, including $ 250 million paid in 2018 to licensees, $ 250 million announced last March, $ 270 million in the form of a royalty collected at each race, and $ 44 million available to the industry. to modernize, from royalties paid by Uber since 2017.
Taxi drivers are demanding more than $ 1.3 billion in compensation for the loss of value of their licenses and their buyback following the arrival of Uber in the Quebec market.
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