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TRUCKERS' STRIKE * WORLDWIDE
* USA - Los Angeles Port Truckers Test Out Their Picket Signs
-In These Times, by JOSH EIDELSON -Oct 12, 2012: -- Six months after Los Angeles-area port truckers won a rare union election in a nearly union-free industry, contract negotiations have hit the rocks. The Teamsters Local, charges that Australia-based logistics giant Toll Group has broken its promise to bargain in good faith. With truckers on both coasts watching the negotiations closely, the increasingly public showdown could continue to escalate... Will it end in a strike? “We’re ready to do whatever it takes to get our contract,” said Eduardo Urrea, a member of the union’s bargaining committee... In the meantime, the Los Angeles-area port truckers have started conducting near-weekly “practice pickets.” “They’re mastering the art of practice,” said TJ Michels, a spokesperson for the labor federation Change to Win. “Because eventually, practice might have to make perfect” ...
* South Africa - Hit By Second Ratings Cut
Johannesburg,S.A. -The WSJ (USA), by Patrick McGroarty -October 12, 2012: -- South African unions representing about 40,000 truck drivers accepted a package of pay increases to end a three-week work stoppage, a momentary reprieve for a struggling economy where about twice that number of workers remain on strike... The South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union and several smaller groups agreed Friday to an offer from the Road Freight Employers Association to raise all truckers' pay by 10% in March. Their salaries will rise 8% a year later and 9% in 2015...
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