Sentences with phrase «taxi ride to working»

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Customers accuse the ride sharing service of attempting to profit from a taxi driver work stoppage.

Critics swiftly accused the ridesharing company of attempting to undermine or profit from a work stoppage by taxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like Utaxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like UTaxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like Uber.

BMW and Mercedes - Benz parent Daimler are now working on developing autonomous cars, vehicles which could enable them to upend the market for taxi and ride - hailing services.

Geoffrey Crothall of China Labor Bulletin said the news media's focus on ride - hailing apps obscured the main complaint of the Chinese taxi drivers: that rapacious fleet companies charge onerous rental fees that leave drivers with little to show for their work.

2.4 Direct ICBC to consult with stakeholders in developing an insurance product suitable for part - time and flexible vehicle - for - hire work and is applicable to both the taxi and ride - hailing industries.

Drivers say the current rules benefit ride - hailing service Uber or NCCs - cars rented with a driver - because unlike taxis they can purchase licenses in smaller towns, where they cost less, but use them to work in cities.

I remember there were some cases some time ago of Muslim taxi drivers who refused to give rides to customers carrying alcohol with them, or Muslims working at supermarkets who refused to shelf alcohol.

David Plouffe, a former aide to Barack Obama now working for the ride - sharing company, has claimed de Blasio is simply thwarting its progress because he received campaign contributions from taxi medallion owners, who have warily watched the number of Uber drivers eclipse their own ranks.

A surcharge on Uber and taxi rides in Manhattan, a tax on opioid manufacturers and a new sexual harassment policy were all up for consideration Wednesday as New York lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo work to pass a new state budget before a key Sunday deadline.

Just in case things don't work out, you need to be in control of your own ride — even if you take a taxi.

Just in case things don't work out, you need to be in control of your own ride - even if you take a taxi.

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Her team coordinates the work of the committees, prepares the agenda, gathers materials for math kits to be given to families, locates test preparation videos, translates presentations, writes up the activity for Title I funding, orders food, designs the layout for the evening, arranges taxi rides for families that need transportation, and recruits families and staff to participate.

Travel to Port Hardy, a working waterfront fishing village a quick taxi ride away from the Port Hardy airport.

If you choose to ride the subway or take a taxi to work, you may still get the benefits of rental reimbursement.

as a way for the on - demand ride hailing app to work around the (stricter) licensing regulations that can be applied to traditional taxi firms.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.