...all we should really need is 50 votes from City Council and ONE VOTE in the Mayor’s office....
Who’s losing out in this sputtering economy?
Not the big cab company CEOs. Not the Mayor. Not the DCS Commissioner. Not the Transportation Committee. Not the City Council.
They have made sure to remain financially and economically secure while hard working drivers and owners face continued soaring fuel costs, more robberies, more theft of services, more harassment and abuse from the people who are supposed serve and protect us, bigger fines, higher-than-ever health care costs, higher denatal care costs, doubled costs for eye-care and eye-wear, less or no care at County Hospital, higher grocery bills, increased rents and mortgage payments, foreclosures, evictions and an uncertain future – with no meter increase or any other relief in sight.
WHAT WE NEED NOW IS A PETITION BY DRIVERS AND OWNERS AS A BASIS TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING CRITICAL EMERGENCY CHANGES:
1.) An EMERGENCY SESSION of the full City Council to DO the following:
2.) A temporary suspension, waiver or other deferment of the laws and regulations regarding enactment of a meter increase,
3.) A temporary suspension of the standard requirement of financial data from drivers to support the need for an increase,
4.) An immediate meter increase of not less than 25% on the start, mileage and waiting time.
The way the Municipal Code regarding these matters is written is for normal economic steadiness and growth – business as usual, in good economic times.
But now it is clear that the law doesn’t account for or include the EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMIC TIMES AND CONDITIONS in which we now live.
Anyone who works for the City who claims he or she does not see any need for a meter increase and a strong public stand for additional safety measures -- such as simple warning of the greater legal risk a potential thief may face -- should be fired on the spot and told to get out and stay our of town.
Cab drivers and owners must act because the City won’t.
These EMERGENCY MEASURES are needed now because this is a REAL emergency, Mr. Mayor, Ms. Commissioner, Members of the Committee on Transportation and Ladies and Gentlemen of the City Council -- and people of Chicago.
We need your help to get our taxi driver economy back on track. To accomplish this we need the big cab company CEOs. We need the Mayor. We need the DCS Commissioner. We need the Transportation Committee. We need the City Council. We need the people of Chicago.
In an unprecedented show of support of their drivers -- and indeed a remarkable show of good faith and understanding by one of the biggest taxi fleets in the Chicago area -- 303 Taxi which operates as Flash and other Chicago cabs -- has taken the lead by negotiating with the Village of Arlington Heights and getting a substantial meter increase for its drivers. Many other suburbs will follow the lead. Other Chicago cab companies need to fall in as well.
For drivers and owners, this is no time to play “We will launch a huge campaign to get thousands of drivers and owners to support these EMERGENCY MEASURES and tell City Council IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE!"
But nothing should be taken off the table just yet. If we have to play the petition and rally game, lets do it. We look to the UTCC and its coalition-building muscle and every able-bodied man, woman and child to participate.
Again, THIS IS A REAL EMERGENCY, not Chicken Little crying the “Sky is falling, the sky is falling.”
HOW MANY WILL SIGN the petition -- there are only about 10,000 of us!
But in these extraordinary times, all we should really need is 50 votes from City Council and ONE VOTE in the Mayor’s office.
We can and must raise living standards, improve health care and stop the City’s forced race to the bottom by its intentional delay and ignoring the realities of our times.
It’s time to put some real fairness into how meter increases are approved. That’s why we need many voices of drivers and owners supporting these EMERGENCY MEASURES. We won’t reach our goal without YOUR help. Without your help we will continue to sink t the bottom.
Do you support these EMERGENCY MEASURES?
Anti-organizing people are mounting a campaign to fight drivers and these EMERGENCY MEASURES. We can prevail if enough people rally to this important cause.
The Chicago cab industry economy should work for all of us, not just the privileged few.
In solidarity,
Wolfgang J. Weiss
Chicago Professional Taxicab Drivers’ Association
Ola Shalom is a real cabdriver.
You show how absurd you are when you insist that he isn't.
It doesn't help your credibility for the rest of your opinions.
The City likes cabdrivers like you...be afraid, don't stand up for yourself, expect someone else to fight for you, blame others for your irresponsibility, etc.
I want to point out that you are (wrongly) criticizing George Lutfallah for not reporting or exposing this or that supposedly because the City will retaliate against him and you are expressing the same cowardice.
How hypocritical.
How ironic that you do it on a discussion forum provided by him.
Curiously, you don't post a thing on an independent site like cco1.bravehost.com...you simply spread a lie about the cabdriver I helped.
You don't see a problem with posting things using someone else's good name.
Other than criticize George Lutfallah, what did you do this week to actually make anything better for Chicago cabdrivers?
-Mike Foulks
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...all we should really need is 50 votes from City Council and ONE VOTE in the Mayor’s office....
Who’s losing out in this sputtering economy?
Not the big cab company CEOs. Not the Mayor. Not the DCS Commissioner. Not the Transportation Committee. Not the City Council.
They have made sure to remain financially and economically secure while hard working drivers and owners face continued soaring fuel costs, more robberies, more theft of services, more harassment and abuse from the people who are supposed serve and protect us, bigger fines, higher-than-ever health care costs, higher denatal care costs, doubled costs for eye-care and eye-wear, less or no care at County Hospital, higher grocery bills, increased rents and mortgage payments, foreclosures, evictions and an uncertain future – with no meter increase or any other relief in sight.
WHAT WE NEED NOW IS A PETITION BY DRIVERS AND OWNERS AS A BASIS TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING CRITICAL EMERGENCY CHANGES:
1.) An EMERGENCY SESSION of the full City Council to DO the following:
2.) A temporary suspension, waiver or other deferment of the laws and regulations regarding enactment of a meter increase,
3.) A temporary suspension of the standard requirement of financial data from drivers to support the need for an increase,
4.) An immediate meter increase of not less than 25% on the start, mileage and waiting time.
The way the Municipal Code regarding these matters is written is for normal economic steadiness and growth – business as usual, in good economic times.
But now it is clear that the law doesn’t account for or include the EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMIC TIMES AND CONDITIONS in which we now live.
Anyone who works for the City who claims he or she does not see any need for a meter increase and a strong public stand for additional safety measures -- such as simple warning of the greater legal risk a potential thief may face -- should be fired on the spot and told to get out and stay our of town.
Cab drivers and owners must act because the City won’t.
These EMERGENCY MEASURES are needed now because this is a REAL emergency, Mr. Mayor, Ms. Commissioner, Members of the Committee on Transportation and Ladies and Gentlemen of the City Council -- and people of Chicago.
We need your help to get our taxi driver economy back on track. To accomplish this we need the big cab company CEOs. We need the Mayor. We need the DCS Commissioner. We need the Transportation Committee. We need the City Council. We need the people of Chicago.
In an unprecedented show of support of their drivers -- and indeed a remarkable show of good faith and understanding by one of the biggest taxi fleets in the Chicago area -- 303 Taxi which operates as Flash and other Chicago cabs -- has taken the lead by negotiating with the Village of Arlington Heights and getting a substantial meter increase for its drivers. Many other suburbs will follow the lead. Other Chicago cab companies need to fall in as well.
For drivers and owners, this is no time to play “We will launch a huge campaign to get thousands of drivers and owners to support these EMERGENCY MEASURES and tell City Council IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE!"
But nothing should be taken off the table just yet. If we have to play the petition and rally game, lets do it. We look to the UTCC and its coalition-building muscle and every able-bodied man, woman and child to participate.
Again, THIS IS A REAL EMERGENCY, not Chicken Little crying the “Sky is falling, the sky is falling.”
HOW MANY WILL SIGN the petition -- there are only about 10,000 of us!
But in these extraordinary times, all we should really need is 50 votes from City Council and ONE VOTE in the Mayor’s office.
We can and must raise living standards, improve health care and stop the City’s forced race to the bottom by its intentional delay and ignoring the realities of our times.
It’s time to put some real fairness into how meter increases are approved. That’s why we need many voices of drivers and owners supporting these EMERGENCY MEASURES. We won’t reach our goal without YOUR help. Without your help we will continue to sink t the bottom.
Do you support these EMERGENCY MEASURES?
Anti-organizing people are mounting a campaign to fight drivers and these EMERGENCY MEASURES. We can prevail if enough people rally to this important cause.
The Chicago cab industry economy should work for all of us, not just the privileged few.
In solidarity,
Wolfgang J. Weiss
Chicago Professional Taxicab Drivers’ Association
Good luck on winning against the city. They can do what they want. They already screwed me. I am indepented cab. I can't pickup at the airports no more. I don't and I will never take credit cards. If, you keep telling the city you want this and that. They will just keep put the more fines for us. If, daley or reyes would drop dead. All, us would be happy
We don't want Daley and Reyes to die. Dying is too good for them. You want to make them suffer to a point where they wish they were dead.
MAKE THEM SUFFER!
I agree make them suffer. On, all the crap they are putting use through. Harold Washington was a good mayor for Chicago, And, to use cabbies. Daley and Reyes day will get there day. When, they see about 20,000 cab drivers coming towards with baseball bats.
there is more than enough suffering in this world
they should be allowed to retire with all their accumulated wealth and benefits just like any American politician who has not been found guilty of crimes misdemeanors
it is not against the law to screw cab drivers and take their money for the mayor's own goals and ambitionsthe worse they are, the more powerful and wealthy they get
get it -- you've been gotten
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I agree make them suffer. On, all the crap they are putting use through. Harold Washington was a good mayor for Chicago, And, to use cabbies. Daley and Reyes day will get there day. When, they see about 20,000 cab drivers coming towards with baseball bats.
Steve, Calm down. We can't get what we want that way. I like the fact that the UTCC doesn't have to worry about insulting the city like George L. does. You guys are doing great work. The lawsuit guys are also doing the right thing. Be calm.
I know you, the AFSC, Lawsuit guys, and Nathan work together. Believe me when I say this, I am behind you guys. Mike and George want everyone to see them. They are chest thumpers. This kind of guy never gets anything done. George was very upset that he wasn't notified about the lawsuit first. He needed a headline. George L. is just a guy that is trying to profit off of us. Mike would like to have us believe he has a strong army. An Army of one is what he has. Actually about .75, unless he has gained weight since the last time I saw him.
I prefer to stand behind the lines to give support, feedback, and anything else I can give when called on. While I didn't sign my name to the current lawsuit, I did give my support in a big real way. I even take credit for helping to put the pieces of the current suit together. We will eventually win here. It might not be with this suit or even the next few, but eventually we will get what we want. The city is already poised to give us our raise in the first part of 2009. Lets start making sure it is for the proper amount! Any ideas UTCC members?
Helping to put the pieces together, and no I'm not Don Nathan.
I do not usually post this forum.When I post any things, I use only my name as Steve Kim. Therefore, please do not confuse my name and Steve in this forum.
Once again, this message to Steve. Will you consider to use your name with last name to avoid any confusion to other person? If you do, it would be very helpful to understand your message. Thanks.
I have never posted this forum.
When I post messages, I use only my name as "Mike from CCO" (Chinese Coconut Organizers), which is not the imaginary CCO on this forum.
Therefore, please do not confuse my name and Mike in this forum.
Once again, this message to Mike: Will you consider to use your name with "Long Eared Father of Fools" to avoid any confusion to other persons?
If you do, it would be very helpful to understand your hee-hawing. Thanks Long Ears, I knew you would understand.
