Uber reaches out to Italian taxi drivers in order to find a meeting point and put an end to the heated controversies spread over the last few months due to the provisions contained in the Milleproroghe.
The general manager of Uber Italia, Carlo Tursi, decided to write and to send a letter to the various unions in the taxi sector in order to propose "a meeting behind closed doors". This was announced by Ansa which also indicated the established day, time and place: Monday 20 March at the Frentani Congress Center, in via Dei Frentani in Rome, at 12.00.
“I think it is right to try the path of dialogue, opening a door to a civil and honest confrontation“, explains Tursi in the letter, using words that leave no room for doubt as to what the goal is: to find a meeting point to coexist on the Italian market.
“As general manager of Uber – writes Tursi – a technology company that for too long has been seen in opposition to the taxi service, I invite you to discuss concrete proposals that can see us collaborate from here on out.”
“Too much time has been spent – continues the general manager of Uber – on a comparison that does not look to the future but only to the past, penalizing even the consumers who are not to blame for this. We want to look to the future and we would like to do it with you too”.
A letter that bodes well after the vicissitudes of the last few weeks. After the six-day strike by taxi drivers that paralyzed many Italian cities, Rome in primis, it seemed that the situation was turning for the better thanks to the negotiations that led to the imeeting on February 28th between the government and trade unions. However, the meeting ended with nothing and with a postponement to a date to be set which made the hopes of the eve fade. A few days ago the Antitrust also intervened on the matter and invited the Parliament to prepare for a comprehensive reform of the mobility sector non-scheduled (taxi and NCC) which is regulated by "a law now 25 years old". In the meantime, the 30 days within which the government and trade unions agreed on Tuesday 28 February, within which the executive will have to issue two decrees to resolve the problem, hopefully definitively, are about to expire.
