Taxi drivers to strike in anger over deregulation

THOUSANDS OF taxi drivers are to stage a 24-hour strike in protest at the Government’s failure to address their grievances over deregulation.

Cab drivers in Dublin have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the strike which will represent the first joint industrial action by the three main taxi representative bodies, the Irish Taxi Drivers Federation (ITDF), the National Taxi Drivers Union (NTDU) and SIPTU.

Most of the capital’s 10,000 plate holders are due to withdraw all but emergency hospital services in Dublin for 24 hours starting at 4am on June 10.