Taxi drivers reach tentative deal with second-largest cab company
Taxi drivers have reached a tentative contract with Yellow-Checker-Star, the second-largest cab company in Las Vegas.
Officials at the Industrial Technical Professional Employees Union said Thursday a package was being readied for a drivers' vote at an unspecified date. Specifics of the deal were not disclosed.
Company executives could not be reached for comment.
However, union officials have said in recent weeks that bargaining did not focus on dilution of the seniority system, a particularly thorny point in talks between the drivers represented by the United Steelworkers Union and Frias Transportation Management, the largest cab company in Las Vegas with five brands.
The Frias contract expired Sept. 11, but both sides have worked under extensions of the old pact since then.
One proposal put to Frias drivers last month was rejected by 99 percent of the drivers, according to union officials.
Yellow-Checker-Star has 603 medallions, or permits that must accompany a cab when it is carrying passengers, about one-fourth of the local total. Some of the medallions carry time and day operating restrictions.
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