Teachers and Taxis
Drivers on Strike Today
The strike action called
by the Asociación de
Profesores de Segunda
Enseñanza (APSE) -
teachers union - is not
the only work stoppage
today, as a group of
taxi drivers will take
to the streets today on
foot instead of their
cabs.
A group of drivers of
the Unión de Taxistas
Costarricenses (UTC)will
march onto Casa
Presidencial to ask
Costa Rica president,
Oscar Arias, to pressure
the Procuraduría General
de la República (PGR) -
Comptroller's office -
to allow taxi plates to
be inherited.
Currently, the taxi
plate dies with the
owner, as the Tribunal
Administrativo de
Transporte orders the
cancellation of the taxi
plate concession on the
death of the owner of
the concession.
Rubén Vargas, president
of the UTC, added that
not only are the
families left out in the
cold when the bread
winner dies, the family
will also have to pay
the tax on the
exonerated vehicle used
as a taxi when it sold.
Legislator, Mario Quirós,
promised to intervene on
behalf of the taxi
drivers.
As to the teachers, the
APSE has called an
indefinite strike over
problems with the
teachers salaries.
The Ministro de
Educación Pública,
Leonardo Ganier, said
the all schools will be
open today
notwithstanding the
strike action. |
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