translated from Spanish: Porteño taxi drivers protest again, now against Cabify

The staff grouped in the Porteño Taxi Pawn Union (SPT) will be mobilized on Tuesday to Cabify headquarters to reject “the existence of a significant number of vehicles not enabled to travel in the city, which seriously affects the sources work of thousands of families,” guild owner Omar Viviani said, through a statement, they warned that the protest of the drivers of the yellow-roofed cars will take place at 11 o’clock towards the offices of the platform, located in Pico at 1,600.Los Los taxi drivers will meet at that time in Pico and Avenida del Libertador and march to Cabify, from where they will be deconcentrated two hours later, the leader pointed out.” The union repudiates the number of non-qualified vehicles circulating within CABA, affecting the labour sources of thousands of families living in a dignified and indimerating manner in the legal frameworks of the activity,” Viviani said in the document. The leader said that “the permits of rigor” were already managed, and asked the society to adopt forecasts for “the inconveniences that the protest may generate.” Cabify is an app whose function allows you to request a chauffeur service, similar to the Uber platform, although its situation is different, since the latter faces a long legal dispute. Both applications began operating some time ago in the city of Buenos Aires and the conurbano. Uber even does so in cities in the interior of the country, such as Mendoza, where it operates legally, or Mar del Plata y Córdoba, where it also operates without authorization from the municipalitiesIn this note:

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