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STRIKES WORLDWIDE * Finland - Port Strike Starts Third Week
Negotiations stall over union compensation demand
Kotka,Finland -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Mar 18, 2010: -- Finland's nationwide port strike appeared to be heading into a third week today March 18 as negotiations between longshoremen and port employers stalled... The negotiations were overshadowed by a warning by the Central Organization of Trade Unions that it may launch sympathy strikes if a container terminal operator continued to hire strike-breakers... Striking dock workers demonstrated outside the southern port of Kotka this morning following reports that Multi-Link Terminals had recruited around thirty non-union workers through the social networking Web site Facebook to load 1,000 stranded containers... (Photo: A Finland port is facing a total stop on imports and exports that could lose the country up to €160m -$223m- per day)
* Finland - Dock Strike Ends
Helsinki,Finland -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Mar 19, 2010: -- Unions, employers sign new contract after businesses lose billions... Finnish longshoremen and port employers agreed to a new contract March 19, ending a two-week nationwide dock strike that crippled the country’s foreign trade... The AKT transport union and the port employers accepted a reconciliation proposal from a government-appointed mediator in the early hours of the morning following a marathon 17-hour negotiating session... The two sides reached agreement over the key issue of severance pay for laid-off dockworkers and the use of sub-contract labor at cargo terminals... The two-week stoppage is estimated to have cost around $2.25 billion in lost production and exports, according to the Confederation of Finnish Industry...* UK - BA Strike to Go Ahead at Midnight. Last minute peace talks collapse, airline says it will fly 65 percent of flights
London,UK -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Mar 19, 2010: -- A strike by British Airways cabin crew, which threatens to disrupt cargo operations, will go ahead after last minute negotiations between the airline and union officials collapsed March 19... The three day-stoppage by over 12,000 cabin crew will begin at midnight with a four-day walkout scheduled for March 27... BA World Cargo will be affected by the action as it flies a significant portion of its freight in the bellies of the airline's passenger aircraft... (Photo from wikipedia.org: BA b747-400)
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