A new survey revealed dangerous hazards Private rent driver While at work, many violent attacks express fear for their safety.
The GMB Union poll of 400 drivers exposed a series of disturbing incidents, threatening the drivers with knives and matches, Subjected to racial abuseAnd stones were hurt on their vehicles.
Conclusions paint these drivers a disturbing picture of those risks daily, one of which accepts to carry baseball bat for the defendant security. Many drivers reported a lot of fear of working.
Last year, 85 percent on a large scale, viewing especially in far-flung riots that targeted ethnic minorities GMB respondents He said that similar incidents can happen this year.
A driver said that it was “shocking to see his worst humanity”.
Last year in July and August, dozens of far-flung rallies took place In Britain in several daysWith violence for goals such as immigration centers, lawyers’ offices and donations. More than 1000 people were arrested during the incidents and later, hundreds were injured.
The GMB survey found that about half (46 percent) of their personal fare drivers say they were Impressed by the riots itself.
Speaking at the Union’s annual conference in GMB National Officer Eamon O’Hearn, Briton, said: “These terrible survey results show that our personal rent drivers were in the front row of previous year riots, and a vast majority fear they could be again in this summer.”
One defendant said: “I passed through a mosque and many people used to contact me with knives and matches, so I moved forward fast and did the fastest U-turn and left.”
Another said that in a van, a passenger threw a cup of coffee in his car.
Another driver said: “I don’t feel any more safe in the United Kingdom, I have started carrying my own baseball bats because I am afraid of throwing acids at me.”