{"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:\/\/jomec.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><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Trade Union movement is united in its opposition to the trade, which they say depresses wages and increases the workload of drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Shavanah 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#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;<\/p>\n<p>Ms 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#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;<\/p>\n<p>The 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":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[1743,665],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23460,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23447\/revisions\/23460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}