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TRUCKERS' PROTEST & STRIKES * WORLDWIDE
* Europe & Asia - Truckers in fuel protest
Madrid,Spain -The Gulf Daily News -9 June 2008: -- Tens of thousands of truckers in Spain, France and Portugal yesterday stepped up protests against rising fuel prices, causing mayhem on highways and blocking border crossings... Spanish and Portuguese drivers began indefinite strikes, and lines of trucks up to 8km long formed on the French side of the border after Spanish picketers smashed the windscreens of foreign goods drivers who tried to enter Spain... French and Spanish truckers also staged 'go-slow' protests, causing tailbacks of 30km in Bordeaux, France, and 20km or more around Madrid and Barcelona... Meanwhile, three main unions demonstrate in the eastern city of Liege to protest against the rising cost of living and the fall in workers' purchasing power, Belgian news agency Belga said... Separately, Indian police use water canon and batons in Kashmir to disperse hundreds of government employees who gathered outside the office of the state's chief minister in Srinigar... A four-day strike called by private transport operators demanding an increase in passenger fares and freight charges also force thousands of people to walk to work... More than 20 Indonesian students to protest against rising fuel prices, which increased by 30 per cent last month... (Photo News VOA: Spanish truck drivers block traffic on Spanish border with France in Behobia, northern Spain, 9 June 2008)* France - Struggling with high fuel costs staged fresh protests near the Spanish border
French fishermen end strike in the Mediterranean
Marseille,France -AFP -9 June 2008: -- ... French truckers struggling with high fuel costs staged fresh protests near the Spanish border and in the southwest, demanding government action to stem the price hike... About 15 trucks from the southern city of Perpignan disrupted traffic at several border posts and preventing trucks from crossing, causing a tailback of some 10 kilometres (six miles) on both sides of the border... Some 200 long-haul trucks were to converge on the four main motorways leading into Bordeaux early Monday, drive around the ring road before heading into the southwest city, said Jean-Pierre Morlin, president of the European trucking organisation for the Aquitaine region... "We are demanding immediate measures" to counter the impact of high fuel prices, said Morlin... The French truckers' action "is aimed at protesting the price of fuel and to make authorities aware of the need to harmonize the price of diesel in Europe," said Roland Bacou, head of a national trucking union for the Languedoc-Roussillon region... Fleets in France's biggest fishing port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais and Dunkirk last week called off their strike pending the outcome of the talks in Brussels...* S Korea - Truckers to launch strike over soaring fuel prices
Seoul,S.Korea -Xinhua (China) -June 9, 2008: -- A union of South Korean truckers voted Monday to launch a strike this week to protest the soaring fuel prices, triggering concerns that the country's transport system might be paralyzed... The Korea Cargo Transport Workers Union said 90.8 percent of its 13,000 members endorsed the strike in the vote... "We plan to hold further negotiations with the government and cargo owners until Thursday, and if the negotiations fail, it will engage in industrial action the next day," the union's leader Kim Dal-shik told a press conference... Monday's vote came on the heels of the government's announcement on Sunday that it will spend over 10 trillion won (9.77 billion U.S. dollars) over the next year as part of a comprehensive policy package meant to help citizens deal with the record-breaking crude oil prices... (Photo: Yonhap/The Korea Times - Unionized car transport drivers hold a sit-in rally before a walkout, calling for the raising of transportation fees amid soaring oil prices, in front of Busan Economic Promotion Agency, Busan, Monday. Truckers and bus operators also plan to go on strike this week)* South Korea - Gov't to use military, non-union vehicles to cope with possible trucker strike
Seoul,S.Korea -Yonhap/chinaview-Xinhua -June 10, 2008: -- The government said Tuesday that it will use military and non-union vehicles to prevent possible serious delays in overland freight traffic if truckers go on strike later in the week... They agreed that in addition to military and non-union trucks, smaller-sized private vehicles will be given permission to handle commercial cargo... Only 3-4 percent of all commercial vehicles are union vehicles, but because many of the union's members drive large container-hauling trucks, a strike could seriously affect the country's ability to haul freight by road... The union threatened to go on strike starting Friday unless the government lowers diesel fuel costs, raises fees for hauling freight to reflect market conditions and introduces a standardized pricing system for truckers that can ensure minimum wages for services rendered...
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