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STRIKE * Italy
* Truck Drivers Block Highways to Port
(Photo Reuters, by Ciro De Luca: Naples north highway is blocked during the protest)
Gioia Tauro,Italy -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Jan 23, 2012: -- Drivers block highways connecting Gioia Tauro to northern industrial cities... Italian truck drivers kicked off a weeklong protest against higher fuel taxes and road tolls on Monday by blocking highways from the southern container port of Gioia Tauro to the northern industrial cities of Milan and Turin... The drivers also are demanding a ceiling on insurance premiums, easier reimbursement of duty on diesel fuel and a government crackdown on unlicensed trucking companies blamed for driving down freight rates. Supporters are protesting government plans to liberalize the industry by increasing the number of licenses and allowing drivers to transfer from one city to another... The nationwide truckers strike follows a week-long stoppage in Sicily last week, which seriously disrupted the delivery of food and fuel across the island... Gas station owners also are set to strike this week to protest government plans to deregulate the sector to spur competition. Train workers are expected to walk off the job too, threatening further disruption to freight traffic to and from the nation’s ports... The Italian government is planning to deregulate a wide swath of protected professions, from taxi drivers, and lawyers to pharmacists, to spark economic activity in one of the euro zone’s slowest growing economies...
* Swiss - IRU calls for roadblocks to cease
Geneva,Swiss -The Irish Trucker (UK) -25 January 2012: -- In an urgent letter to the Italian Home Affairs Minister, Anna-Maria Cancellieri, and to European Commission Vice-Presiden, Antonio Tajani, the International Road Transport Union today called for immediate action to lift blockades set up by striking Italian truck drivers... In order to ensure the free movement of goods, and to guarantee the safety of other drivers and their trucks and launch the Rapid Intervention Mechanism, the IRU have made the request... Due to the strikes, a large number of foreign trucks have been blocked throughout Italy, and despite the presence of Italian police, no interventions have been made to free circulation... The IRU considers this an unacceptable situation with regards to the commitments of Member States, which are oblieds to notify to the Commission in advance major events such as demonstrations or road works concerning important routes, which could potentially impede trade...
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