Athens taxi drivers announce 48-hour strike for November 5–6

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Taxi drivers successful the greater Athens country will stage a 48-hour strike connected November 5 and 6, protesting authorities policies they accidental are weakening their sector.

Cabbies are demanding escaped entree to autobus lanes and the hold of the deadline requiring that each caller taxis registered successful Athens and Thessaloniki beryllium afloat electrical from January 1, 2025, to 2035.

“These policies not lone disregard the nonrecreational needs and just demands of taxi owners and drivers, but besides travel a logic that leads to marketplace disruption, undermining the viability of professionals and degrading the prime of services offered to citizens and visitors,” the Athens taxi drivers’ union (SATA) said successful a statement. “The supposed improvement of the tourism assemblage cannot beryllium based connected measures that marginalize and weaken the taxi industry.”