The Hong Kong Delste driver canceled a plan that was scheduled to hold on Wednesday (November 22).The strike aims to protest the Hong Kong government refuses to crack down on online car ride -hailing services such as Uber.
The comprehensive network media "Hong Kong 01" and Bloomberg reported that Huang Yuting, chairman of the Hong Kong Radio Dezi Association, who originally planned to participate in the strike, said that the decision to cancel the strike was because the Hong Kong government expressed his willingness to review the existing laws.The illegal activities of cracking down on online ride -hailing, and the government also agreed to meet again with the industry as soon as possible to discuss future measures.
Huang Yuting also reiterated that the Dushi industry has never wanted to strike, because the strike is not a good thing for the people, the dex owner and the driver, and emphasized that the industry does not want to express dissatisfaction with strikes.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government stated in the news bulletin that will "strengthen the crackdown on illegal rental or pay for passengers."The Hong Kong government has also said that it will continue to maintain close communication with the Delta industry to solve problems rationally and pragmatic.
About 500 Hong Kong taxis originally planned to strike on Wednesday. The driver will stop picking up the passenger for three hours from 11 am and will start from the Tai Po area northern Hong Kong.It is reported that because the number of vehicles is small and the location is far from the prosperous city center of Hong Kong, it is unlikely to cause major service interruptions; the negotiations between government officials and 17 De Shi driver groups failed to reach an agreement.
Huang Yuting previously said that he met with the representatives of the Hong Kong government, but he was not satisfied with their answers, so the strike will be carried out as planned; the Delste driver has two main demands to solve the illegal network taxi service service.Problems and deduction plans proposed for Dushi.
Uber's situation in Hong Kong is complicated.From the official perspective, it is illegal, but it has grown to about 14,000 driver partners since its launch in 2014.In 2021, it acquired the HKTAXI application, which is a popular platform called taxi; it also provides Uber Taxi services that can call the car through the company's own application.
Uber is becoming more and more popular, making it often becoming a complaint goal in the Hong Kong Dushi industry, and it is estimated that the Dest driver earns less than 20 million Hong Kong dollars (about S $ 3.43 million) every day, causing unfairnessCompetition and damage to new driver recruitment.
The Hong Kong Delste driver strike in 2018, but since then, the Hong Kong government has not adopted a clear action to support the application of online vehicle -in -on -way applications, which has become the root cause of the continuous tension.
