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STRIKES * WORLDWIDE - By Higher Fuel Cost
* UK - Trucks ready to roll on the Capital in fuel price protest
Edinburgh,UK -The Edinburgh Evening News, by IAN SWANSON -7 June 2008: -- A convoy of up to 100 trucks will take to the streets of Edinburgh next week in a protest over rising fuel prices... Lorry drivers from across the Central Belt and the Borders are expected to join in the drive-through demonstration on Tuesday. And one of the organisers warned that the protest could become a weekly event... Three trucks will be given a police escort from there to the Scottish Parliament, where the protest organisers will hand over a letter to Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson... The protest will take place two weeks after a similar protest in London, when hundreds of lorry drivers called for an immediate 25p per litre cut in fuel duty... David McCutcheon, one of those leading the Edinburgh protest, said soaring fuel prices had left hauliers and others who relied on transport for their livelihood in a "horrendous" situation... And Mr McCutcheon said Tuesday's protest could become a regular event if there is no action to halt fuel price rises... (Picture: Truckers on a similar fuel price protest in 1999)* Spain - Fishermen and truckers widen their protest
Madrid,Spain -AFP -8 June 2008: -- Spanish fishermen and truck drivers stepped up their national strike against rising fuel prices Sunday, staging direct action to disrupt public events... In the morning, truck drivers in the northeast region of Catalonia launched a go-slow operation on a highway... That created a three-kilometre (two-mile) tailback on the way to the Montmelo racetrack where the Catalan Motorcycle Grand Prix was taking place, said local officials... Truckers began rolling out a parallel protest on Friday. A truckers' group calling itself the "Platform for the Defence of the Transport Sector", who say they speak for 50,000 truckers, walked off the job... They have threatened to disrupt the opening next weekend of the International Exposition in Zaragosa... Another truckers' association Fenadismer, which says its represents 70,000 out of Spain's 380,000 truck drivers has called a strike from Monday... (Picture: "Pa there's not milk!")* Spain - Truckers say gov't offer won't stop strike
Madrid,Spain -EFE/Reuters, by Jason Webb & Stephen Weeks -Jun 8, 2008: -- The Spanish government offered aid to truckers on Sunday to ward off an imminent strike over high fuel prices but it was immediately rejected as insufficient, news agency reported... The president of the National Federation of Road Transport Associations (Fenadismer), Julio Villaescusa, said the government offers merely repackaged existing measures and would not stop the strike due to commence at midnight local time on Sunday (2200 GMT), EFE said... The head of the Development Ministry's Road Transport Department, Juan Miguel Sanchez, earlier on Sunday said the government would in the next few days approve loans for truckers, as well as assistance for those who wish to retire and a regulatory change to allow truck contracts to be renegotiated quickly... The protest is the latest of a wave throughout Europe caused by the surge in the price of oil...
* Protests against gas-price hikes spread around the globe
Vancouver,CAN -The Canada News Services -June 8, 2008: -- Protests and strikes over fuel-price rises spread across India on Friday despite moves to take the sting out of the hikes, while anger fizzled out in Malaysia as the government stood firm after larger increases... However, state media said Malaysia's leader planned to give details next week of measures to ease the burden on consumers... The governments of the fast-growing Asian nations were the latest to raise subsidized fuel prices this week, following similar moves in Indonesia, Taiwan and Sri Lanka...
- Malaysians have turned to the Internet to vent their anger at one of the biggest hikes in fuel prices, and some are using it to rally support against the measure in a country with tight restrictions on street protests. The government raised gas prices this week by 41 per cent and diesel by 63 per cent...
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