I work as a taxi/sedan/limo driver for a large local company (Florida) and have purchased the right to do so as an owner/operator along with 25 others like me. Our employer states that we have no vested interest in the company and therefore no voice even though we have all paid 2k per car to enter the company and continue to pay $280 per week for dispatch fees.
As such the company has a responsibility to us to advertise and provide business in return for the dispatch fee and we are vested interests and unless I'm wrong should have some sort of voice and/or control. The owner of the company is now allowing his wife, who has no experience in the business at all to take charge and deal with customers. We are losing business daily and we want changes. The company has a long standing airport contract and several other contracts but we have lost many over the last year because of our leaders' refusal to add salespeople or spend money to find new business. Last summer we starved, this summer we want to work. If we lose the airport the company dies. If the company loses us, it dies. We need to do something, can we?
My questions are these;
Under Florida corporate law,
A) Can we force the company to form and adopt a board of directors?
B) Can we take control of the corporation as investors?
C) Can we do anything?
As such the company has a responsibility to us to advertise and provide business in return for the dispatch fee and we are vested interests and unless I'm wrong should have some sort of voice and/or control. The owner of the company is now allowing his wife, who has no experience in the business at all to take charge and deal with customers. We are losing business daily and we want changes. The company has a long standing airport contract and several other contracts but we have lost many over the last year because of our leaders' refusal to add salespeople or spend money to find new business. Last summer we starved, this summer we want to work. If we lose the airport the company dies. If the company loses us, it dies. We need to do something, can we?
My questions are these;
Under Florida corporate law,
A) Can we force the company to form and adopt a board of directors?
B) Can we take control of the corporation as investors?
C) Can we do anything?
