* Ningbo / China - Truck strike flares up again, becomes violent
Ningbo,Zhejiang,China -Sino Ship News -21 Aug 2014: -- The truckers' strike in Ningbo has flared again, and this time the action has descended into violence. Up to 7,000 truck drivers, made up from smaller, independent trucking firms, have been campaigning for higher pay. They went on strike for one day on Monday before authorities came in promising to hike pay. With strikes and protests frowned upon by Beijing most local reports of the protest were then wiped from Chinese media the next day... According to two freight forwarding sources in Ningbo the truckers started a new round of protests today with far more people joining in... When the police intervened they were also attacked. A number of people have been arrested and there are plenty of police cars that have been smashed up too. The truckers are claiming they will continue to protest through the weekend...
* Indiana / USA - Local 135 strikes against trucking company
(Photo: Members of the Teamsters Local Union 135 picket outside Kokomo Gravel Wednesday)
Kokomo,IND,USA -The Kokomo Tribune, by JOSH SIGLER -August 20, 2014: -- Members of Teamsters Local Union 135 went on strike Wednesday morning against Diamond Trucking Inc. after new contract negotiations broke down Tuesday night... Thirty-eight members of Diamond Trucking, which hauls materials for Kokomo Gravel to places all over the northern half of Indiana, picketed in front of Kokomo Gravel's Kokomo and Peru facilities Wednesday morning... The current contract had been in place since 2011, but expired in April. Employees of Kokomo Gravel were operating under the terms of the expired contract up until negotiations broke down Tuesday... Labels: truckers' strikes
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