Thursday 7 January 2010

RMT meets Murad Qureshi AM at City Hall...


The RMT specia-list tran-sport union and its London taxi branch hit the ground running this week with a meeting on Tuesday the 5th of January at City Hall where Brian Hall committee member (pictured here with Murad Qureshi) and John Kennedy vice chair met with Murad to discuss a range of issues affecting the London taxi branch.

Top of the agenda was the Mayor's emissions proposals and how these will in their present form impact on the London taxi trade. Murad was receptive and certainly understands the concerns of the self employed taxi-cab drivers. The discussions then widened from emissions to include pedicabs, touting, satellite mini-cab offices, transport for London and the Public Carriage Office.

It was felt by all present that this was a constructive meeting and we would certainly like to thank Murad Qureshi Labour Assembly Member of the GLA for agreeing to meet so early in the New Year. We look forward to meeting Murad at our branch early this year where many of the above subjects will be debated in much more detail.