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7 December 2012
7:59 a.m.
Updated
7 Dec. 2012 8:10 a.m.
Drivers for the Yellow-Checker-Star taxi companies have authorized union leaders to call a strike as early as Dec. 16 over their ongoing contract dispute. After a vote completed late Thursday, a representative of the Industrial Technical Professional Employees Union said the vote to authorize a strike was “overwhelming,” but the union would not disclose vote counts or percentages of voter approval. A contract extension between the drivers and YCS, the second-largest taxi company group in Southern Nevada, is in effect through Dec. 15. Talks between union and company bargaining teams are scheduled Wednesday and Thursday. Sam Moffitt, chief shop steward ...
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"most drivers barely make minimum wage"
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Doesn't sound like a very good job. Who's making all the money being raked in by the high fares?
If anyone of them strikes they should be fired on the spot. Driving a car isn't that hard, I'm sure there will be plenty of people willing to fill their jobs.
Unions full of long haulers.
"Driving a car isn't that hard" There is more to driving, truck or car than just holding a wheel. I'ts a business, customer service, knowing what your doing and where your going and handling money. That's what that show Undercover Boss is about. Anybody can sit on their butt and say another job is easy until they try it. Good drivers have jobs, "wheel holders" as the dispatcher calls them don't last long.
I'd feel much more sympathy for the drivers if more than 50 percent of my guests didn't complain about the fare from the airport...40 bucks compared to the 15 it should be
OK. $40 from Airport. Why are drivers barely making minimum wage then? In a 12 hour shift I can do 20 runs. That's $800 gross. You're telling my pay is less than $100?
The union is playing right into the hads of management who will save enormous amounts of money by not having to pay drivers during the slowest time of the year, also giving them many weeks to hire replacement workers who they possibly believe will be in abundance. Of coarse it helps that government has only cursory requirements to get a taxi license here as compared to all the other states in the USA. Best wishes to the union in there push to recieve at least Nevada state minimum wage protections in perhaps the most exploited industry in this state and the nation.
Extend the monorail to the airport, that will end this.
"Who's making the bucks". Seriously, you have to ask that question? First of all, I understand that there is a lot of consternation about the monorail, but seriously, don't you think a monorail to the airport and back, appropriately priced to support the system, would unclog a lot of the roads in and out of the strip? I will tell you that all those times I flew in for CES and other shows and had to wait hours in line for a taxi to get to the Venetian would have gone the way of the monorail if it had been in service.
idiots they should strike during the nfr nothing is going on the 16th of dec.
Go for it drivers! While your at it, throw the issue of carbon monoxide poisoning on the table too. The waiting tunnels are a killer, let alone sitting in line. The Mirage even has signs warning against it. Your union leaders should be looking at ways to protect the drivers health as well.