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TRUCKERS' STRIKE * Greece - Greek truckers block country's largest port
Continuing strike
(Video from YouTube, by independence4wales -25 Sept 2010: Greeks are passionate especially when they know they are in the right. As we have mentioned in our other videos, there will only be losers in the de regulation of the trucking industry in Greece, Greek Truck Drivers)
Athens,Greece -M&C -Sep 24, 2010: ... Hundreds of truckers blocked around 200 freight vehicles from ships docked at the port of Pireaus, vowing to continue with the second week of a work stoppage in protest at reforms opening up their sector to competition that were voted into law on Wednesday... More than 5,000 freight containers were left stuck at the port... Unions made the decision to extend the strike, which has blocked traffic on major highways and caused food and medication shortages in northern Greece and on many of the country's islands, after refusing tax and pension benefits offered by the government... Road freight remained one of the most closed professions in Greece, with jobs protected by fixed fees and rates and strict licensing rules... The new law will reduce freight prices by issuing new licences for the first time in 40 years at a fraction of the company start-up costs... Truck drivers argue the new rules will cause thousands who have borrowed money to buy a truck licence to go bankrupt... Unions say many drivers have paid between 200,000 and 400,000 euros (268,000 and 536,000 dollars) to buy licenses which were now worth almost nothing under the new legislation...
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