Taxi in strike in Chongqing
About 8% of the 9 000 Taxicab of the main urban areas of the township of Chongqing, the fourth bigger city of China, has challenged the profession of strike Monday morning and took work since 14:00 the same day, accompanied by some official of the transportation to guarantee the security of the drivers.
About 800 bus drivers, persuaded by the municipal administration of the transportation, took work, sometimes breaking this strike violent in the city of the southwest of China.
These drivers had asked their societies to guarantee their security, after about 20 vehicles, of which three cars of the police, have been damaged Monday morning.
The municipal administration of the transportation held several meetings after the starting point of the strike. She tried to persuade all taxi drivers to take work. The police cars patrolled’s in big number in the street.
The drivers of taxicab of the main urban areas stopped their work this morning to show their discontent on several problems.
According to an employee of the administration of the municipal transportation, who asked for anonymity, the Taxicab hear to protest against the insufficiency of the provision of the service stations in compressed natural gas, carburating Taxicab most of the city, the competition of the illicit Taxicab and the amount of the fines that they judge exaggerated.
The municipal government and the committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the township of Chongqing held several meetings to debate the movement of the drivers and took a set of measures to make take the service of the Taxicab, indicated Zhou Bo, director ties the communication of the committee of the PCC for the township.
According to him, the official must remain heedful facing the possible consequences, the police must take care of the fluidity of the movement, the taxi drivers to the black must be punished and an investigation should be thrown on the price of the compressed natural gas.
More than 100 people assembled in a street of the business district toward 11:30 Monday morning, in the precinct of Jiangbei. They stopped the taxicab and made some take the drivers.
"All taxi drivers got agreement to stop working, and we damage the taxicab of the drivers that do not keep word" declared to the agency Xinhua a taxi driver who asked to keep anonymity. He added that most people present were 100 bus drivers.
Another taxi driver, of the name of Huang, declared that he worked for the group of public transportation of the township.
As he saw some people breaking taxicab in the precinct of Shaping whereas he drove his, then he went back to the garage of his company.
"I do not want a strike, but my taxicab will be broken if I continue àrouler", it has declared while adding that a lot of his colleagues were the same opinion.
This morning, the residents did not find a taxicab at the time of the peak hour.
According to Zhang Yujun, director attaches the hotel, some drivers wanting to work saw the windows of their taxicab broken or pulled their passengers of their car.
Chongqing, nicknamed "the city-mountain", is different from the other Chinese cities. There is very few bicycles, and the taxicab are the fashion of transportation used after the more the buses.
The city of Chongqing counts 16 000 Taxicab possessing a license of which about 9 000 in the main urban areas.

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