D-Day For The Taxi Trade. Trevor Merralls Speech, UCG AGM 6th June 2016.

   

The United Cabbies Group have smashed the cartel that has kept the Licensed Taxi trade divided for the past six years and kicked the engagement policy into touch.

Expect now to see the trade media brimming with headlines, exclaiming how 'they've ' done this and how 'they've' done that, complete with customary back slapping and finger pointing, as certain trade figures seek to jump on the bandwagon. 

The usual suspects, presently queuing up for photo opportunities, with smiles like Cheshire cats. It appears that soon as a GLA member or Deputy Mayor stands still, out comes a camera phone.

But now the exclusiveness of the 'United Trade Group' is now a thing of the past.

The UTG orgs agreed to and backed up the policy which saw other trade groups excluded, to the detriment of the trade. If you ignore mistakes of the past, you are at risk of repeating them. 

Two of the three constituent orgs, making up the UTG, accepted terms and conditions of entry, that they themselves didn't meet. Plus we had eight wasted years of the LTDA's General Secretary on the board of TfL. 

'United Trade Group', a cruel joke, or just the worst description ever!

Far from Uniting, the engagement policy kept the trade divided. 

Un-minuted meetings where time after time, our so called representatives continually rolled over to TfL's proposals.

Uprising!

Years of weak representation gave rise to new, more militant groups. Drivers took it upon themselves to take on campaigns, the UTG had long since given up on. 

We've seen the rise of the RMT, UCG, the Mayfair Mob, the Shoreditch Mob, Dads Defending Daughters, plus the 'SaveTaxi' Facebook group (14,500 members).

A victory for common sense.

With the UCG's major victory, the capitulates have had their power base stripped away. 

At last, the engagement policy is dead.

 

For the first time in 6 long years, we see every representative group included in the mayors new open door policy. No more elitism, no more exclusions.

Now the fun begins as the dirty tricks brigades from the discredited groups, open fake Twitter and Facebook accounts. These keyboard warriors, will troll through social media platforms, trying to discredit anyone and everything that's positive. Using anonymity, their vile attacks will be aimed at keeping the trade fragmented, playing right back into the hands of those who would scheme to destroy us. 

I read this today on a Facebook debating group:

'It's not only TfL that needs a clear out, our org's and unions could do with one also'.

Sometimes the solutions are so simple, we overlook them.

Trevor Merralls talking about Uber Bristol at the UCG AGM 6th June 2016, another not to be missed video.

   

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