Black cab drivers file legal challenge against ride-hailing app over claims business model is illegal July 7, 2022 A black cab drivers trade body has filed a legal challenge against ride-hailing app Free Now, over claims the taxi firm’s business model is illegal. The hackney carriage driver’s trade body, United Trade Action Group (UTAG), is seeking to argue that ride-hailing apps that lets customers hail private hire taxis are acting illegally. The body [...]
First national rail strike since 1995 looms as union ballots members at 10 different train firms July 5, 2022 The country will be brought to an unprecedented standstill if train drivers vote for their first national strike since 1995. Aslef union members are to be balloted over industrial action at 10 different train firms across the country. It was also reported there was similar action proposed by the TSSA union, which represents station and [...]
Staffing agencies slam govt’s plans to use agency staff as strikebreakers June 30, 2022 Staffing agencies have hit out at the government’s plans to lift a ban on using agency staff as strike breakers. In a letter to the government seen by City A.M., a group of the world’s biggest staffing agencies slammed the plans, put forward by business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, to overturn laws banning agency staff from [...]
Stagecoach returns to growth as bus journeys bounce back to 81 per cent of pre-Covid levels June 29, 2022 Britain’s biggest bus company Stagecoach today said it now in a “good financial position” after “recovering customer demand” saw passenger journeys bounce back to 81 per cent of pre-pandemic levels. The public transport operator said it had “firmly returned to growth” after its profits more than doubled year on year, from £17m in the financial [...]
Brits suffer weekend travel chaos as RMT goes ahead with third strike June 25, 2022 Strike action has entered its third day on the UK's rail network this week, causing severe disruption to passengers across the country.
Train strikes: Disruption set to cost hospitality £540m and have ‘catastrophic’ impact on night economy June 20, 2022 This week’s rail and tube strikes are set to cost the hospitality sector £540m, as the nighttime economy will suffer a “catastrophic impact”. Trade union action on the transport network this week will “set back the recovery of our high streets and deter people from going out in the evening”, leading to hundreds of million [...]
Insurance giant Axa calls for clarity on self-driving cars June 16, 2022 French insurer Axa has called on the government to offer greater clarity around autonomous vehicles to support the rollout of self-driving cars. The French insurance firm called on the government to put in place laws that enable the deployment of self-driving vehicles, as it said lawmakers should work with the insurance sector to “pave the [...]
Go-Ahead shares fly after transport giant agrees £650m takeover by little-known Australian bus firm June 14, 2022 Shares of transport giant Go-Ahead are skyrocketing this morning after the company agreed to a £650m takeover by a consortium including an Australian bus operator. The UK-listed company, which runs London’s red buses on behalf of Transport for London, saw shares rise by almost 14 per cent to 1,540p this morning. It came after Go-Ahead [...]
‘Summer of discontent’ looms as THIRD rail union threatens to strike and plunge country into travel mayhem June 10, 2022 The country has been plunged into further travel mayhem with rail drivers union TSSA set to join the train alongside RMT and Aslef. The organisation served notice to ballot hundreds of staff for strike action at Avanti West Coast, over pay, conditions and job security. Transport and Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) General Secretary Manuel Cortes [...]
Truck makers ‘cartel’ to face landmark £2bn opt-in lawsuit over decade long price fixing scheme June 9, 2022 A UK competition tribunal has given a trucking industry trade body the green light to bring forward a more than £2bn opt-in claim against a “cartel” of European truck makers, over allegations they fixed the prices of lorries for more than a decade. The UK’s Road Haulage Association (RHA) trade body’s claim is set to [...]