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Union local president Malik Umar Draz thinks the coming merger between Saskatoon’s two taxi companies, Comfort Cab and United Cabs, is a “monopoly.”

“It is their business, it is their call, so they can do whatever they want with their business. But as for (where) the drivers are concerned, I think a monopoly in any business is not good,” said Draz, president of United Steelworkers Local 2014.

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Comfort and United are merging operations. The two brands will continue to operate separately, but more details about the deal — said to be about improving service, access and efficiency for customers — won’t be known until the summer.

Comfort Cab operations manager Shondra Boire said on Friday that meetings were held in mid-May, at which the merger was discussed with drivers and franchise owners.

“All drivers were invited, although not all took the opportunity to come,” she wrote in a message to The StarPhoenix.