Cabbies warn of second taxi strike before Oct. 1st

[billyoc]

Cab riders may want to buy a MetroCard - another taxi strike could soon become a reality.

Hundreds of cabbies authorized a second strike in the coming weeks to protest new technology mandates by the city, according to sources who attended a mass meeting early yesterday morning at CUNY's Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies.

If a second strike is called, it would take place before Oct. 1, sources said.

About 350 cabbies who work the night shift attended yesterday's gathering. The Taxi Workers Alliance will hold another meeting for day-shift drivers at 10 a.m. Saturday at the W. 43rd St. institute.

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