Cabbie Strike Looms In D.C.
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District businesses are bracing for a 24-hour taxi strike threatened on Halloween, a high-volume day for cabs, in what drivers say might be the first in a series of strikes to protest Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's recent decision to switch from zones to meters.
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A group of cabbies sued city regulators Wednesday in an attempt to block a new requirement that all taxis be outfitted with global positioning systems and software that will record where they drive.
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Some drivers of New York's yellow taxis went on strike on Wednesday over plans to install a satellite tracking system and credit card payment machines that strikers say will be costly and invade their privacy.
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At a busy Manhattan corner, a cabbie lays on the horn as he struggles through rush-hour traffic. A few blocks away, sirens blare as an ambulance races down the street. In the subway below, trains screech to a halt and an amateur dance troupe blasts hip-hop music on the platform.
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New Yorkers face the second day of a strike by taxi drivers angry over the introduction of new technology.
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By Richard Quinn, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 10--The meter is running on creating a regional taxi cab license good in Virginia Beach and Norfolk.
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Like two teams before a big game, supporters and detractors of a plan to bring baseball to the District are preparing their lineups for tomorrow&#39;s showdown before the DC Council.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - She's a tough-talking, petite New Yorker who was fed up with her office job, so when Melissa Plaut was laid off she decided it was time for an adventure -- driving one of the city's famed yellow taxi cabs.
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A group that says it represents about 7,000 cabdrivers vowed to go ahead with a two-day strike this week.
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The city has required that all of the city's 13,000 yellow cabs install new technology, including G.P.S. devices and credit-card readers. Some drivers are unhappy about it.
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Mayor Anthony A. Williams, five members of the D.C.  Council and eight city employees plan to spend nearly $80,000 in taxpayer funds to fly next week to Beijing, the first stop on an 11-day cultural and economic mission to China and Thailand.
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A strike by thousands of hotel  workers in three cities seemed likely after hotel workers in  Los Angeles and Washington D.C. authorized a strike and the San  Francisco local was voting on Tuesday.
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One D.C. police officer helped himself to a woman's credit card while investigating a burglary at her home, another allegedly spit on a nightclub bouncer in a drunken rage and a third was caught soliciting sex within 10 blocks of police headquarters.
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Union leaders and city officials differed over the effectiveness of a strike by New York City taxi drivers.
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New York and other major US cities are considering fees for those driving during rush hour.
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The daily struggles of hotel workers are at the core of a threatened strike of 14 major D.C. hotels.
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Johannesburg - Congress of SA Trade Union delegates were trundling from Musina to Polokwane in a minibus taxi on Wednesday morning, after having been hustled out of the country &quot;through the back door&quot;.