***Stop Press***Colin Evans of Heathrow Taxis (HALTS) has bowed to pressure from various sources, and has now conceded that drivers cannot be forced to sign up to his hugely unpopular scheme.
From Monday 8 November, 2010. all drivers will be able to accept the controversial "Blue Vouchers" and have them cashed five days later.
Finally, BAA seem to have woken up to the discontent that Heathrow Taxis (HALTS) has created in the Taxi Feeder Park. Any new system will only work with the consent of the majority of drivers at Heathrow; there can be no exclusion, as the RMT has been saying all along.
The RMT will not rest until control of the taxi system at Heathrow is conducted with the consent of the majority of drivers who use the facilities that they pay for. No interlopers will be tolerated.
Stop Press added, 6 November 2010.
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ReplyDeleteWhy the five day wait and WHO is it that makes the payment? I do not mean the cnatten but in whose name is the voucher issued?
ReplyDeleteAfter assurances that cash would be paid to drivers, the brains behind HALTS have yet again tried to "ring" the situation.
ReplyDeleteHALTS (Heathrow Taxis) have posted in the canteen to the effect that the cash payment option is only a temporary measure that will be scrapped once their new "no bank account" credit card style system is up and running.
Yet again, the directors of HALTS are trying every trick at their disposal to con drivers into signing up to their system. I don't think they truly realise how angry drivers are becoming.
In answer to your question, Paul, the 5 day wait has now turned into a 7 day wait. Why, because they have no credit rating and they have to clear pre-paid credit card payments before they pay the drivers.....into their bank account.
Paul, you asked in whose name the voucher is issued.
ReplyDeleteThe answer is a private company limited by shares by the name of Heathrow Taxis Solutions.
This is a private company set up by Colin Evans and Howard Kaye. I have documented evidence to prove this is the case.
How many drivers at Heathrow even know that this company exists? And yet it is printed at the bottom of the new Blue Vouchers....with no VAT number.