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STRIKES * WORLDWIDE
* Spain - Truckers roll out national strike to protest fuel prices
Madrid,España -AFP -7 June 2008: -- Spanish truck drivers on Friday joined fishermen in a national strike protesting fuel prices that has dogged the country for the past week, a road transport association said... Antonio Llanos of the "Platform for the Defence of the Transport Sector" was not able to provide an exact number of participants, he said the goal was eventually to get all 300,000 independent truckers to strike throughout Spain... Another association representing 70,000 of the approximately 380,000 trucks in Spain, Fenadismer, called for an indefinite strike starting from Monday morning... The protests are designed to put further pressure on the Spanish government after the country's fishing fleet went on strike last week... Similar strikes have also been launched in other European countries... Representatives of Spain, France, Italy and Portugal met in Madrid Friday and called for urgent European Union measures to tackle the crisis in the fishing industry, Spain's fisheries ministry said... The rapid rise in the price of oil has pushed up the cost of marine diesel by around 30 percent since the beginning of the year, causing trawler owners to warn they face bankruptcy without increased subsidies...* Argentine - Truck Owners Block Roads, Complicate Farmers' Fight
City Buenos Aires,CF,Argentine -Dow Jones Newswires (NY,USA), by Michael Casey/CattleNetwork (Platte City, MO,USA) -5 June 2008: -- Angry trucker owners have thrown a wrench into the works of Argentina's worsening farm crisis... In a bid to get striking farmers and the government to end a three-month dispute that has put a halt to much of their freight business, self-employed truck drivers have placed their vehicles at key transit points around the country. The result: the farmers' partial blockade, until now targeted solely at grains exports, has turned into a total food blockade, putting Argentine cities at risk... So the ball is in the farmers' court. And, according to Santiago Lacase, an analyst at pollster Manuel Morales y Araujo and Associates, they have one solution: abandon their strike action and seek to form a "legitimate political entity," such as a party, a move that he believes would come with broad public support and help improve one of Argentina's grave political weaknesses... "If one thing has been clear from this conflict, it is that proper channels of dialogue and political participation don't exist," Lacase said. "The best thing the farm sector can do is to take advantage of that and more formally embark on political participation."...Labels: truckers' strikes
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