Over 300 taxi drivers continued their strike against the “unfair competition” posed by Uber and other personal transport services, by partially blocking the access to Faro airport with their vehicles.
This is day six of a national strike that has enable Uber and others to expand their services, especially in Porto, Lisbon and the Algarve.
The strike will continue, according to Algarve First, one of the taxi associations, which says that the government, "has to hear us, if this does not happen, we will be in protest until November 1st.”
Taxi drivers say they are unable to compete with the new style services as they are hampered by layers of bureaucracy built up over the years with cost implications that Uber drivers do not have to incur.
The new ‘Uber Law’ passed by the government has yet to be cleared by the Constitutional Court with the taxi drivers’ union saying the law allows unfair competition rather than a level playing field.
