Taxis take aim at Uber

FURIOUS taxi and hire car drivers will take share-ride giant Uber to court for eating into their profits while operating without legal approval in Victoria.

Law firm Maurice Blackburn will lodge the class action in the Victorian Supreme Court in coming weeks into Uber’s “conspiracy to act unlawfully”, senior associate Elizabeth O’Shea says.

About 1000 people who held a licence while Uber was “operating unlawfully” and lost income or licence value had joined the action, Ms O’Shea said.