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TRUCKERS' PROTEST * Australia - Truck Drivers Protest Fuel Prices
Mathaba,Australia -Mathaba.Net -25 June 2008: -- Australia's National Secretary of the Transport Workers Union (TWU), Tony Sheldon, addressing the media outside New Parliament House in Canberra, said that tens of thousands of truckers and small businesses face collapse due to the rising fuel prices... This affects safety on the road and the lack of government help means workers will have to work longer and harder. 228 lives, 4 times the national average, should not have been lost due to deaths in the past year due to the pressures of rising fuel costs, he pointed out, and criticised the lack of "cost recovery" action by the Australian regime... The TWU National Secretary told that "in the trucking industry if you don't get cost recovery it means drivers work longer, harder in what is already an extremely dangerous industry, or leave the industry in droves"... Now more than ever we need cost recovery, safe rates for employees, and owner drivers to make sure those businesses continue, and be able to operate in what is a highly competitive industry.. The truckers staged a blockade of the road outside Australia's federal parliament as a photo shoot opportunity for the media... (Photo: Tony Sheldon, National Secretary of Australia's Transport Workers Union with truck drivers and their families outside Parliament House in Canberra yesterday)* ATA won't support trucking shut down
Australia -Farm On Line - 27 June 2008: -- The Australian Trucking Association does not support the trucking industry shutdowns that some people are proposing for the two weeks from 28 July 2008.ATA chairman, Trevor Martyn, said he understood the hardships that many in the industry were going through, but warned that shutdowns were not the answer... "But going on strike and standing around truck stops for two weeks isn’t the answer... Instead of going on strike, I urge every owner-driver and trucking operator to think through how their business can deal with the rising price of fuel."... Mr Martyn said truckies need to: ... "Some companies will need to increase their freight rates by more than 20 per cent; and most importantly, refuse to accept jobs that do not pay enough to cover their costs."...
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