Originally Posted by
ckendall
There is a general transport strike Friday:
http://www.controradio.it/domani-sci...voratori-ataf/
The last Firenze anti uber taxi strike was earlier this year (Feb and March as far as I can tell). The article noted in this thread related to a
strike in Jan 2016 that was a follow-on to the Parisian uber strike then. (Note that Uber is back in Paris and worked quite well when I was there last month)
As you said, the stated purpose of the strike was to show sympathy with the Paris anti-Uber strike of January 2016. This anti-Uber strike was predicated on the world-wide problems Uber has recently been having regarding its lack of corporate ethics.
Headline of the January
2016 Parisian strike; "French taxi drivers clash with police in anti-Uber strike."
https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/26/1...rike-paris-vtc
As a result of the recent investigation of Uber in the USA they currently do not have a COO, CFO, CMO, President, or even a CEO. All were fired over corporate ethics, and the fact that it loses more money than pretty much any company in the USA, except for some gigantic energy companies that speculate about energy futures.