Anti-Uber taxi drivers block Paris road during strike

Over 1,200 cars are were used to block the streets.

French media reported that the Court of First Instance fined Uber because its drivers were not clearly informed of the need to return to a home base between trips, as they are required to do under the law.

The airports affected will be Charles De Gaulle, Orly, Beauvais-Tille, Lyon-Saint-Exupery, Nice Cote d’Azur, Marseille Provence, Bordeaux-Merignac, Toulouse Blagnac and Nantes Atlantique.

The protests have been described as “Black Tuesday”.

“They vandalise the professionals who are paying taxes, the professionals who respect the rules”.

The next major “day of action” will take place in Ottawa next Thursday, when taxi’s from all over the province will converge on Parliament Hill, in the hope of gaining federal support in their fight against Uber.

The statement said that Valls was ready to consult industry and government representatives “on the economic equilibrium of the individual transportation sector and on the potential regulatory evolutions that might follow”. “They think they are creating jobs, whereas for every job created, one is destroyed”.

Past year the city of Dayton amended its taxi and transportation ordinance to regulate ride share services.

Taxi drivers and air traffic controllers in France went on separate but simultaneous strikes Tuesday, blocking traffic in major cities and disrupting flights at several airports. According to France 24, much of Paris has now been shut down.

People are sharing photos of a fire, started by protestors, on social media.

Taxis park during a protest in front of Arch de Triomphe in downtown Paris, early Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016.

They burned tires, blocked traffic across Paris and hurled bottles at police, shooting “Here come Uber’s gendamerie”.

Air traffic controllers were demanding for more personnel to be recruited to reduce the workload on existing staff, who the unions say were overworked.

One witness told La Voix du Nord “He was alone against 20 people, he did not stand a chance”.

“We have received reports of isolated intimidation and harassment of our partner-drivers at the Oval – a commercial building complex – in Nairobi’s Westlands”, Uber Africa’s spokesperson, Samantha Allenberg, said in a message sent to partner-drivers.