You get this: Kijiji to rescue? Illegal, says city.
But Orest Katolyk, the city’s manager of bylaw enforcement, is [sic] warns the drivers, who he calls “rogue taxis”, offering rides for a fee is against London’s taxi bylaw.
Gee, who could have foreseen this happening? I’m not condoning illegal activity, but obviously there are a lot of unemployed Londoners in need of the extra cash.
I will give credit to Pat Hunniford, president of the Transit union, who asks people to ignore these opportunists and rely on their neighbours to give them rides. But maybe he should get together with his counterpart Dave Empey, head of UWO’s staff union, and agree on what’s okay and what’s not. As of yesterday, Empey was referring to such volunteers as scabs.
It’s all so confusing, and I don’t have a secret union decoder ring to straighten it all out. But if volunteers offering free rides to those who usually take the bus are now scabs, I say “Londoners unite! Let’s all be scabs!”
Show some community spirit. Be a scab today — offer a free ride to a transit customer!
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don’t like your wages or your job. go get another one.
Exactly. Or try to negotiate a raise first; if that doesn’t work, find another job. But this union nonsense — striking, picketing, hindering other people trying to earn a living — that stinks.
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