Athens Taxi Drivers’ Union Launches Monday Strike

The Athens Taxi Drivers’ Union (SATA) has called an 18-hour onslaught opening astatine midnight connected Sunday and ending astatine 6 p.m. connected Monday, seeking maximum information successful its bonzer wide assembly scheduled for 10 a.m.

The national argues that its relation is being undermined portion ample backstage interests are gaining unchecked entree to municipality transport services. According to its announcement, the assemblage is facing a captious and unsafe turning point.

SATA contends that caller authorities decisions endanger the viability of the taxi assemblage by opening municipality transport to backstage cars with drivers. The national views this improvement arsenic a nonstop usurpation of law provisions and existing legislation, which it maintains grants specified rights exclusively to licensed taxis.

As portion of its response, SATA has announced that it volition entreaty to the Council of State, aiming to overturn the associated ministerial determination of the Ministries of Tourism and Infrastructure and Transport that enabled this regulatory change.

While readying further onslaught action, the national stresses that mobilizations volition not beryllium continuous truthful that the assemblage tin withstand the pressure. It nevertheless insists that taxi drivers volition stay progressive done assorted forms of protestation successful the coming period.