NYC Cab Drivers Strike Over Plans To Install GPS - Credit Card Readers
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Getting around New York City has been harrowing the last couple of days. In the midst of Fashion Week and the US Open Tennis Tournament a group of taxi cab drivers striked over plans to add Global Positioning and Credit Card readers to their cabs.
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance called the strike in the nation’s largest city to protest new rules requiring all cabs to have global positioning systems and touch-screen monitors that will let passengers pay by credit card. Some cabbies fear the GPS systems could be used to track their movements and that they could get stuck paying hefty fees for credit card processing.
“The overwhelming majority of drivers are against this system, and there are serious setbacks this system is causing drivers,” the alliance’s executive director, Bhairavi Desai, said Wednesday.
Despite the strike, all cabs are required to have GPS and Credit Card readers installed upon inspection on October 1, 2007.
If I had a guess, I’d imagine that most of these cabbies are more concerned about cash tips suddenly drying up and being reported as income more than anything else. I mean who is really tracking how many dollars a cab driver is making in tips every day?
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