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FROM
CUBA
Cuban
authorities accede to meet with pedicab drivers
union
HAVANA, August 22 (www.cubanet.org) - The Cuban
Office of Taxation agreed to meet with members
of the pedicab driver s union after repeated appeals
by the union to the Ministry of Transportation,
and the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
The meeting has been set for September 20 at
the auditorium of the Hermanos Aimejeiras hospital
in Havana.
The Office of Taxation regulates licensing, which
makes it germane to the workers’ demands.
Foremost among the union’s demands is the
unrestricted licensing of all drivers. Other demands
by the drivers include an end to harassment by
the police, the sale of spare parts at reasonable
prices, and the rescission of a confiscation order
against the pedicabs, which drivers say are their
sole means of support.
The word now is that authorities will start licensing
drivers according to the municipality where they
live. The licenses presumably will be good only
within each municipality.
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