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French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber

posted by martyb on Sunday June 28 2015, @10:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the UberPop-goes-the-weasel dept.

BK writes:

French taxi drivers are the latest to protest the entry of Uber into their protected market. Their protests feature vandalism and blocking roads. From the AP story:

French taxi drivers pulled out the throttle in an all-out confrontation with the ultra-cheap Uber car service Thursday, smashing livery cars, setting tires ablaze and blocking traffic during a nationwide strike that caught tourists and celebrities alike in the mayhem.

[...] Taxi drivers justified their rage, saying Uber's lowest-cost service UberPop was ruining their livihoods.[sic]

[...] Anger seethed across France, with riot police chasing strikers from Paris' ring road, where protesters torched tires and swarmed onto exit ramps during rush hour on the busy artery that leads to Charles de Gaulle airport. In Toulouse in the southwest, angry taxi drivers dumped flour onto UberPop cars, tires were burned in Nantes in the west, and in Lyon, in the southeast, roads were blocked.

Compare this to Uber protests in London.

Vive le monopole!

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday June 29 2015, @05:00AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 29 2015, @05:00AM (#202637) Journal

    Bringing 3d World Wages Home ...

    Letting aside the 3d World (what? we devolved in a world of 2D sprites?), this will not make any difference: what you should ask is to bring human-based production home - it's the only way the people can get wages. Unfortunately, this is no longer possible, even the Chinese are poised to lose their jobs to robots [bloombergview.com]

    What, you really believed that child-story on how a service based economy is self-sufficient and the pinnacle of civilisation? The guys that own the production means and/or resources are the winners to take all - why do you think they are so keen to push TTP/TTIP out of the door in secrecy?
    Welcome to trans-state feudalism 2.0, bow to your transnational corporate masters*, the govts will do nothing now and soon they won't be able to do something even if they want to.

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    * as Uber drivers already did.

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday June 29 2015, @05:51AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Monday June 29 2015, @05:51AM (#202656) Journal

    Getting pedantic on the pedant:

    3d == 3rd == third

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/third#Synonyms [wiktionary.org]

    3d != 3D

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D [wikipedia.org]

    However, I totally agree that we are transitioning to a post-national sort of governance with TPP/TTIP being the clear tipping point, and companies like Uber shredding worker protections to be symptoms.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @12:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @12:52PM (#202759)

      Actually in school I learned it as 3rd, but that version does not appear in the linked Wiktionary page.