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6/15/09 5,000 taxi drivers in China's northwest went on strike for the second day to protest a reported government regulation that would shorten operating licences.
Guangdong province in the south, hit by falling demand for China’s exports,
11/30/08 Taxi strike China, Chaozhou, a city in Guangdong province. Continuation of violence. Same disagreement with government regarding unlicensed drivers.
11/19/08 Cab companies agreed to reduce management fees for drivers in the southwestern Chongqing Municipality, following a strike earlier this month. Based on performance evaluations. Companies promised drivers they would pay 50 yuan (7.31 U.S. dollars) less per day in fees. It cost drivers 300 to 500 yuan a day to use a cab from a company. Retroactively effective since November 5, two days after the strike broke out in the downtown area of the country's fourth largest city. xinhuanet.com
11/18/08 Now it's 300 licensed taxis in Yongchuan, a suburb of the city of Chongqing, were working Wednesday morning as the others protested a government plan to raise the number of taxis by a hundred to 400 to serve the district of 310,000 people.
11/16/08 China, Sanya, 3 officials took the blame for the taxi strike today. All taxi’s are back to work. Government will crack down on unlicensed cabbies.
11/14/08 Sanya, no taxi's in street again for the fifth day. 200 drivers rally in front of government building friday morning.
11/13/08 Sanya taxi drivers still on strike. Sanya taxi-drivers have been gathering outside the city-government headquarters. By November 11th their numbers had swollen to about 300. Smaller taxi strike was also reported in Gansu province in the north-west. Violence has flared and tempers are running high.
11/11/08 China, Taxi strike in Sanya, province of Hainan,second day turned violent protesting drivers are seeking relief from high monthly taxi rental fees and competition from unlicensed cabs. Police detained 21 people on Monday who were suspected of smashing taxis whose drivers refused to participate in the strike. Fifteen cabs were damaged. In Yongdeng,160 cab drivers called off a strike after the county government promised to present in one week's time a plan for eradicating the county's 700 unlicensed cabs.
11/5/08 China, Taxi strike, Chongqing, Drivers arrested over violent Chinese taxi strike in which angry drivers attacked cabs and police cars. Drivers who ignored strike were pulled out car along with passengers. 9,000 cabbies back to work. The strike had begun on Monday and was over high fees charged to drivers, competition from unlicensed cabs, and a shortage of natural gas on which most of the city's taxis run.
11/4/08 China second day of vicious taxi strike
9/15/08 China, More than 200 taxi drivers in Chibi City, Hubei Province have been on a strike since September 8 over a management rights dispute with two taxicab companies. The authorities dispatched more than 200 military police to break up the strike, arresting six taxi drivers, and injuring and detaining another driver surnamed Deng for seven days. en.epochtimes.com
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Chinese taxi strike, this is a rare event! Cabbies want local government to crack down on unlicensed cabs They can mobilise quickly and paralyse a city.Drivers complained some of the companies ignored the municipal government policy that cut drivers' monthly fees to the firms from 7,200 yuan (1,054 U.S. dollars) to an average 5,300 yuan as of Jan. 1, said a driver who only offered his surname as Zhang.
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