AMMAN — Hundreds
of drivers who work for
Careem rideshare company said they will observe a
three-hour strike today, to protest against the injustices they are subjected
to by the company, which has failed to meet their demands despite the promises
it and the Land Transport Regulatory Commission (LTRC) have made.
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Mohammed Abu
Mushref, a member of the Union of Captains of Smart Applications that includes
Careem, told
Jordan News that one of the drivers’ most prominent demands is “to
reduce the sum deducted by the companies for each trip from 20 to 15 percent,
and to adhere to the
LTRC pricing”.
He added that “the
company deducts a percentage of our money, claiming that it is a government
tax. We asked many authorities what this tax is, but to no avail. Based on
that, we ask them to return every penny they deducted”.
According to Abu
Mushref, “LTRC is not helping us as much as it should, although we have met
with them more than once to make our demands known”.
Consultations and
repeated demands have not helped, he said, “so we gave up on some of them, but
those that remained are basic and most important, and we will never give up on
them”, he said, adding that things are bound the escalate “as we will not
remain silent about our rights and will not give up till achieving our demands”.
“We will stop
working for three hours on Sunday, starting from 7 in the morning until 10, and
if no party makes a move, we will protest in front of the Ministry of Transport
and the LTRC immediately,” Abu Mushref said.
Lawrence Rifai, a
spokesman for the drivers, told
Jordan News that “the company mistreats drivers
or treats them with superiority”, and issues arbitrary bans from time to time
“and as a result they are prevented from working”.
According to Rifai,
“when we met with LTRC last week, we asked them what the government tax is, and
no one was able to answer”.
The commission
“cannot support us with anything, even though it has been aware of our demands
for a long time now”, he said, adding that “we might resort to closing the
application, declining customer requests all day long in the next phase if they
do not fulfill our demands. This will be an escalating strike”.
Abla Weshah, LTRC spokesperson, told
Jordan News
that the commission will “address the responsible authorities to find out what the
government tax is”, adding that “even though this matter is not related to the
commission, we will do so to support the drivers”.
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