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STRIKE * Australia - Trucking industry cancels shutdown
Organisers have been forced to cancel a planned two-week shutdown of the trucking industry across Australia after just two and a half days...
Melbourne,Victoria,Australia -Radio Australia, by Matt Watson -29 July 2008: -- ... Drivers launched the industrial action in protest against the state and federal government's road safety laws... The action was supposed to cause fuel and food shortages and force the government into changing its laws... However, the National Road Transport Forum has sent drivers back to work because the transport ministers in the states of New South Wales and Queensland have gone on holidays... Organiser Mick Pattell says it was a ridiculous situation... (Horsham,Victoria,Australia -The Wimmera Mail Times, by JO MORRIS)... Australian Trucking Association spokesman Bill McKinley said the ATA and its member organisation Truckers Workers Union was opposed to the shutdown... He said it had been badly organised and the fact that drivers had felt threatened to stop work was an indication of this... Mr McKinley said the stopwork was unlikely to affect many retail outlets...
* Shutdown begins but trucking operator says support not there
Disillusioned truck drivers have started a national shutdown but there are already claims it will fail to achieve any meaningful gains
Australia -ATN -29 July 2008: -- ... Operators and owner-drivers, fed up with soaring diesel prices and impending regulations, converged on a number of truck stops designed to pressure the government into acceding to a list of demands... But the Australian Long Distance and Owner Drivers Association (ALDODA) latest crusade has failed to draw overwhelming support despite claims 80 percent of the industry is backing it... In a statement from the organisation, shutdown organiser and president of ALDODA’s Queensland branch, Lyn Bennetts, says 470 truck drivers took part across regional areas in Queensland and NSW. But while she says more than 400 trucks joined a convoy in Brisbane, and operator who attended the shutdown claims it was closer to the media figure of 43... About 200 truck drivers turned up to the Brisbane meeting point at a service station... According to Bennetts, ALDODA will receive most of its support in Melbourne, claiming about 600 to 800 drivers will stop work... However, the Victorian strike organiser Fletcher Davis says between 200 to 300 drivers took part in the shutdown. But he says ALDODA expects more to come on board as the week goes on... Davis says he is happy with the progress after around 30 trucks took part in a convoy through Melbourne streets...
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