Visitors to the Canal Parade this Saturday in Amsterdam may have more difficulty getting home. Drivers who are affiliated with Uber and Bolt have announced a strike.
The strike starts on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. and lasts until Sunday 6 a.m. It is an action by Taxi Protest Amsterdam (TPA). The drivers who are affiliated with this have already held several protests and stood with A megaphone for the Stoperaafter which alderman Melanie van der Horst (traffic) talked to them.
TPA says that thousands of taxi drivers are now affiliated with the action group. “The strike of 2 August is intended to show solidarity among the taxi drivers who work for platform companies. It is called to do not carry out journeys for Uber or Bolt and to leave the city. TTO drivers (who are not part of platforms) will continue to work, so that Amsterdam is not fully taxi-free.”
The action group believes that the drivers who work for Uber and Bolt earn too little and that there is too much competition. Moreover, new drivers would not regularly behave professionally enough. TPA wants the ride prizes to go up, that a stop will come on new drivers and that a professional competence requirement for taxi drivers will be introduced.