Taxi Drivers' Rebellion

• 19.02.2020, 8:07

The carriers refuse to work 18 hours a day for kopecks.

Taxi drivers are rioting in Belarus. In Minsk, they even threatened to block the central highways and large business centers. What are the drivers so dissatisfied with?

Journalist Pavel Murashka tells about the strikes of taxi drivers in the Belsat studio.

The time when taxi drivers could independently choose passengers and routes is long gone. Today, Belarusian taxi drivers are divided into two camps: "traditional" taxi drivers complain about the competition with "non-traditional" services, which do not need taximeters, special stickers and other attributes. But the main subject of controversy is tariffs. And all the taxi drivers are complaining about them.

"Tariffs have fallen, fuel is becoming more expensive, costs are rising, and income is not. According to my data - from what I was told - to earn at least 800 rubles, you need to work much more than the 8 hours allowed under the Labor Code. They work 12, 14, 16 and even 18 hours," - Pavel Murashka explains.