From: CHRIS JOHNSON
To: Mick Cash
Sent: Wednesday, 3 July 2019 13:49:53 BST
Subject: Membership problem
Membership number XXXXXXXX
Dear Mr Cash
I have been told to write to you after telephoning the membership helpline.
As you might be aware Transport for London "TfL" & the Mayor of London have introduced a policy to decommission diesel taxis with and out of date and flawed impact assessment, this assessment was undertaken by Cambridge Economic Partners.
Inherently there has been approximately 12% more licensed drivers than licensed vehicles, however, this has increased to approximately to 19% more licensed drivers than vehicles due to TfL & the Mayor's ill thought out and harmful policy.
Neither TfL nor the Mayor of London have carried out a revised integrated impact assessment to the Cambridge Economic Partners assessment even though there was a significant change to the decommissioning policy that was firstly suggested, TfL claim that 50% are fleet rental vehicles and 50% are owner drivers, TfL also suggest that two thirds of the fleet rental companies have decommissioned taxis and only one third are owner drivers who have decommissioned.
This has caused a significant strain in the fleet rental market, with the failure being that neither TfL nor the Mayor of London carried out a revised impact assessment to understand this data - they simply introduced a policy on an old assessment.
In short, TfL & the Mayor of London have introduced a policy without any real up to date impact assessment data, and in doing so, have knowingly caused mental anguish, anxiety, stress and other mental health related problems due to the fact that they have reduced the size of the renal taxi fleet to a position where there are not enough available taxis to supply the number of drivers who need a taxi to earn a living.
The taxi which I rent broke down last week with an engine failure, because there are now a shortage of taxis to rent due to this allegedly unlawful policy, I now cannot work because I don't have a vehicle and unless this changes will be out of work for a considerable time.
This has impacted on my own mental health and is causing me real hardship which is impacting on my relationship with my family.
Therefore, I am asking that the RMT step in here and look at the legal implications of TfL's policy of deliberately putting drivers out of work and knowingly initiating a policies that cause mental health problems, I further suggest there is potentially a conflict with the 2010 equalities act given that mental health is classed as a disability.
I look forward to your reply.
Best wishes
Chris Johnson.
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :
After 18 months of waiting and seeing, our largest org and our smallest Union (LTDA/Unite) after recently congratulating the Mayor on doing an excellent job in regards to decommissioning, have asked the Mayor for more funding to speed up the decommissioning process, to take into the mix TX4 and Vito Euro 5s.
You don’t have to be a genius to work out that this is not going to help find a solution to the problem facing rental drivers, but will actually add to the problem as there will be less cabs available for rentals, as fleet owners take the money and run.
Charlie Croker (@InThePinkTaxi) Tweeted:
After telephoning several garages I couldn't find a cab to rent as the spare I was given had to go back for a repair with a gearbox problem.
I have billed TfLTPH for loss of earnings @ £60 per day.
This situation has been caused by TFL's ill thought out decommissioning policy.
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