Athens taxi drivers call new strike over ride-hailing rules, taxes, EV mandate

Taxi drivers successful the greater Athens country will stage an 18-hour strike from midnight Sunday to Monday successful protestation astatine authorities regulations they accidental weaken their union, SATA, and pave the way for “unchecked introduction of large backstage interests” into the transport sector.

SATA says a caller associated ministerial determination tilts the marketplace successful favour of multinational ride-hailing platforms implicit self-employed drivers. The union is besides demanding alleviation from dense taxes and opposes a mandatory displacement to electrical vehicles.

“We will not backmost down. They are trying to decorativeness us off, to extremity the taxi driver’s escaped assemblage and manus implicit our work to backstage companies,” SATA president Thymios Lymberopoulos said.

The union has called an bonzer assembly for 10 a.m. Monday. “If we don’t respond now, tomorrow whitethorn beryllium too late. It’s either us oregon them,” SATA said successful a statement.