Giovanna, from Sassari to Rome representing taxi drivers: "Ready to fight again"
"If the government opens up to Uber for us taxi drivers, moments of great difficulty are expected, as if those we are experiencing weren't enough"
Giovanna Demontis is tired, but proud. Yesterday she returned from Rome where two days ago, together with her partner Vittorio, she represented all the taxi drivers in Sardinia. The subject of the dispute is the government's decision to open licenses to the multinational Uber. With the order car they embarked from Olbia. In the hood many Sardinian flags, ready to fly in the capital.
Giovanna, 42, is one of the two female taxi drivers from Sassari. For many years it has been the only one, but for almost two years another has been added. He works in the Taxi Sassari cooperative, 28 members.
"It was very tiring, but I am satisfied to have represented the category in Rome - explains Giovanna Demontis - There were ten thousand of us, crowded especially in Piazza Repubblica. The reception of colleagues was fantastic and I was also a little moved. flags of the four Moors stood out as usual and even the national press came to listen to me. I hope that the Government does not formalize its intentions. those we are experiencing were not enough, with the current competition, sometimes unfair and the economic crisis, which opened up due to the pandemic. Furthermore, it is not true that with the entry of Uber the prices or fares for a ride will drop ".
"It will only be a new war between the poor and many of us will lose their jobs. But we taxi drivers - he concludes - will fight again. I will be in the front row because I have never lacked courage".
