The Satellite mini-cab office is the biggest threat to the London taxi-cab driver since the inception of the very idea of radio controlled cars. The comparison here is very important for mini-cabs are meant to be pre-booked or pre-ordered they should not be ranking on the public highway insight of the public at venues where we are denied ranks by the very authority that is charged with licensing ourselves.
We at the RMT London will be taking a very robust, proactive stance regarding this issue and we await the long over due consultation on these offices which have merely turned out to become a "touts" charter with little or no enforcement of the law from TFL or the Met Police.
Be assured that the RMT and its London taxi branch will do all within its power to seek the closure of these offices, we will not sit back and watch your livelihood disappear in front of our eyes for we the branch officials/officers all drive taxi-cabs for a living.
The "safer travel at night programme" run by TFL fails this trade miserably.
We await the long overdue consultation on this issue...
