{"id":23447,"date":"2019-03-12T17:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=23447"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:42:55","slug":"tuc-wales-chief-calls-for-investigation-into-cross-border-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/tuc-wales-chief-calls-for-investigation-into-cross-border-taxis\/","title":{"rendered":"TUC Wales chief calls for investigation into cross-border taxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The cross-border taxi trade sees cabs from towns across south Wales coming to Cardiff to make more money.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Trade Union movement is united in its opposition to the trade, which they say depresses wages and increases the workload of drivers.<br \/>\nShavanah Taj, head of the Trades Union Congress Wales says &#8220;Cross border poaching is massively problematic. It means drivers are now earning well below the minimum wage, yet we live in the Welsh capital which proclaims to be a &#8220;Living Wage&#8221; city, or at least is trying to be.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;ve sought advice from leading QCs, and they say cross-border is illegal. Many drivers say Cardiff Council&#8217;s advice is the opposite, so there&#8217;s two different viewpoints. I suggest that we sit down and try to find a reasonable way of going forward.&#8221;<br \/>\nMs Taj says drivers in Cardiff agree with her view, but that isn&#8217;t the case from further afield. Craig Scanlon is a taxi driver from Pontypridd, and he comes into Cardiff everyday because of the financial benefits. &#8220;One day last week I started at ten and ended at five &#8211; I made \u00a3115. It would take me two days in Pontypridd to do that. It&#8217;s a no brainer.<br \/>\n&#8220;I understand why Cardiff cabbies don&#8217;t like it. It&#8217;s fair enough, and I&#8217;ve heard that taxi companies here have lost drivers because of the competition.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Trade Union Congress and the Hackney Carriage Alliance are organising a series of meetings to put pressure on Government to legislate and ban cross-border taxis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cross-border taxi trade sees cabs from towns across south Wales coming to Cardiff to make more money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[94,532],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","tag-taxis","tag-tuc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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